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  • From: "crmauch" <mauch1@aol.com>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: [nafex] Re: Is grafting a blood sport?
  • Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:24:29 -0000

10 stitches all in one section of my left index finger this spring.

Not the only grafting injury I've ever had, but the only one
requiring stitches.

Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6 (or is it 7 now?)
[a few weeks ago breaking records for cold, now breaking them for
heat].


--- In nafex@y..., Joe and Ellen Hecksel <jhecksel@v...> wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> Does grafting qualify as a blood sport? You know, a "sport" where
some
> dumb brute follows it's unbridled instinct with the unfortunate
loss of
> blood, limb, etc.?
>
> This has been a clumsy year for me. I put a BIG notch in my left
thumb
> trying to milk one more bud off a stick. I modified my technique
since
> that event. Consequently, more than one of my remaining fingers
have
> been nicked.
>
> The worst bloodletting was when I jammed my injured thumb loading
> laundry into the machine. Guess I will stick to grafting. I am
not man
> enough to take the pain of laundry. At least that is what I will
tell
> Ellen 8-)
>
> Keep your shovels, knives and wits sharp.
>
> --
> -Joe Hecksel
> My personal web site: http://my.voyager.net/~jhecksel
> March's featured web site: http://www.ranchovilasa-
spurs.com/oak2.html


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