BS: Kendall's warning

Subject: BS: Kendall's warning
From: kendall
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 04:16 PM

As many of you know, I lost my voice to cancer. It is starting to come back and I have high hopes to be able to speak normally and maybe even to sing again. It certainly has been something to look forward to and I've been feeling good about it.
Now, today I was working on my antique car, and the drop light was in my way, so I went to grab it even though it was close to the fan with the engine running. It was a stupid, careless thing to do but I did it anyway. The fan caught the first two fingers of my left hand and the sudden pain told me I had one glove too many. Sudden panic and hellish pain!
When I withdrew my hand I was sure I had lost two fingers but as luck would have it they were bleeding but not severed!

A word to all who work with your hands around any kind of machinery, BE CAREFUL!

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 04:26 PM

Kendall.

Don't do that.

Okay?

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Amos
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 04:27 PM

Aw, Jaysus, Skipper. How about you get a ketch and take a vacation down in the Islands, for a while, huh? I yam sure it would be just what the doctor forgot to order.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Wesley S
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 04:30 PM

You can loose fingers on a boat too.

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Rasener
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 04:31 PM

Bloody hell Kendal, you are going through the wars.

I am glad to hear that the voice side of things looks to be improving.

Les

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 04:31 PM

You should see my Claw!

The top 5mm of the middle finger on my right hand got severed by a suddenly slamming door a few years ago, two weeks after I had bought my first clasical guitar with a view to playing flamenco.

I had plastic surgery to fix it, but it is a bit shorter and my fingernail curls round and down like an eagles talon.

I Had to learn how to finger pick withut that finger, and the flamenco option is kaput, but it is all more than made up for by the fun that can be had with it when playing scary monsters with the kids.

The moral of my story? - Don't argue about potatoes!

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 04:32 PM

When I was in college I got slapped for having loose fingers....

Kendall, you DID go the emergency room, didn't you?

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 04:38 PM

Wearing gloves around machinery is damn dangerous too. The glove gets caught in the moving parts and your hand gets dragged in after it in a split second. Same goes for other bits of clothing. That famous dancer (whose name escapes me at the moment) got killed when her looooong stylish scarf which was flying in the wind got caught by the wire wheel on the sports car she was riding in. A bad way to go...but a damn fast one!

The safest way to work around machines would probably be to do it naked...with your head shaved bald...and keeping in mind to watch out for exposing those dangly parts!

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 04:40 PM

You're not working in my factory!

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 04:40 PM

Isadora Duncan.

Kendall... just get in that Barkerlounger with Seamus (or Jacqui, you choose) and stay put for a while!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Deckman
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 04:52 PM

KEERIST ON A STICK GUY!!! Can't you do ANYTHING right! Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: GUEST, Ebbie
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 05:23 PM

shudder There are times when we get luckier than we deserve. Congratulations.

My brother severed the tips of three fingers on a saw blade. He said that for a moment he leaned against the wall holding his spouting hand and wishing mightily that he could turn back the clock just 30 seconds...

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 05:31 PM

Kendall,

So sorry to hear of your encounter with one o' yer fans. It's great you didn't lose a finger 'cause you'd have to unzip yer fly to count to ten.

Whatever! Be well, my friend!

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Big Mick
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 05:34 PM

What the f**k, Skipper??????????? Do you have a deep seated fear of performing again? Lissen..... if you are going to persist in this, would you do me a favor and leave me the friggin' Appollonio? In fact, I will take the Taylor, as well.

I have every intention of you and I, and maybe Bruce Phillips, performing on the same stage. Would you please quit trying to tube this?

Thanks.

Your buddy with all his fingers,

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Big Mick
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 05:37 PM

And let's put Art on that stage, as well.

unzip yer fly to count to ten

*%#@SNERK#%*&. Glad I swallowed that drink before I read that.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 05:39 PM

Virtually all of my working life was spent repairing cars and building others to race. It is very easy to become "cavalier" in your approach to some very dangerous situations. Glad you're okay Kendall and it was just a scare.

You're kinda' like the three legged hog......too good to eat all at one time. You seem to be messing up parts and pieces too and YOU are definitely way too good to give up at one time!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 05:46 PM

And never mistake a car jack for a ramp or hoist. The jack I had looked very sturdy, with a big old screw with threads like a big old vise. I worked under the car awhile, slid out from under, and at that instant the threads all peeled away like so much mucus and the car came down. One of a couple moments in life when I came within a second of death, without getting a scratch.

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 05:49 PM

Bet your underpants weren't so lucky, Froggie....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 05:53 PM

Sucker bet, Liz!

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 05:58 PM

Just because Jerry Garcia could play minus a finger doesn't mean you have to try it, Kendall. We'll name an ice cream after you if that's all you want -- lobster mint flavor or something....

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Gurney
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 06:08 PM

The most dangerous woodworking tool is a hand planer, IMO.
I have a sensitive fingertip to prove it.

I once worked with a mechanic who had a funny finger. He put it in the timing hole of a Mini because the marks were grubby. "Well, the flywheel looked stationary in the timing light."

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Willie-O
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 06:14 PM

Yeah, geez, watch yourself there Kendall. I seem to recall you announced years ago that you quit working on cars...maybe time to remember that!

Reminds me, there's a nautical matter I want to pick your brains about, concerning navigational errors on the Maine coast...watch for the thread.

W-O

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 06:21 PM

Danged, Capt'n... Ouch...

Hey, you know what they say about folks who shouldn't be around sharp objects, don'tcha???

But nevermind that question 'cause I ain't gotta clue what they say... My antique car ain't got no fan... Okay, it does but it in a fan housing... But that danged old Karmann Ghia has figurated a few ways to hurt me over the years but never with a fan...

Glad to hear (pun not intended) that yer voice is comin' back...

...'cept it's prolly gonna cost you a good wife when you start up with all them stories of yers...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Mickey191
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 06:29 PM

Glad you lucked out Kendall. I came close to losing 3 fingers on a tablesaw. Sheer inattention!

Thanks again for your help.

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 06:30 PM

My two nearest were the time I cleared the grass out of a running rotary mower (afraid to look for several moments) and the time I came off the top of a ladder with a running petrol hedgetrimmer...

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 06:39 PM

Glad to hear the situation is healable, Kendall. I too hope to share another song or two with you over a couple dark, tasty beers. Jaqui, please keep him in line better.

"...count to 10." Too funny.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 06:40 PM

That afraid-to-look moment is a good workout for your heart, eh?

I was winding to a spool with a nifty invention my boss thought up involving a drill that spun the spool while I held on and steered. Wearing heavy leather work gloves helped, until I looked aside for ONE SECOND and was one gloved hand was caught up and twisted, and I couldn't stop it. By the time I could get the glove off, I was SURE I'd leave some inside. Very, very lucky.

Couldn't play anything before OR after that.

Glad you're ok, Kendall.

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 06:43 PM

I got my necktie caught in a paper shredder once, and I have been able to play the bagpipes since. Ruined the tie, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Hawker
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 07:23 PM

Hey, Birthday Buddie, dont go scarring us like that! I look forward to you being able to give me a 2 fingered salute when I eventually get to meet you......................................................and maybe even a song!
Hope the digits are recovering, healing thoughts!
Lucy

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: kendall
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 07:41 PM

I've worked on cars since I was 16 with never any wound more serious than burning my arm on a hot muffler. Always been very careful, but today, well...she was just waiting for me to make a mistake. Maybe I'll change her name to Christine.

Bobert, have you got a Karmann Ghia? I had one of those, it was a 1958 and I loved it. She made me feel like Sterling Moss.
Come to think of it, so does Jacqui.

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 07:47 PM

Frogprince.....Stay away from those French jacks as they all have that problem.

And Art.......Had Kendall lost that finger and opened his fly, he'd still only be able to count to nine and a half.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 07:53 PM

Moss is green, Capt'n.... Nuthing sterling about it...

Oh, the race car driver???

Duhhh, Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 07:58 PM

Kendall. I'm glad you are in one piece.
Bing lost his voice and got a better one, Julie Andrews lost her voice and got it back after a couple years. Get a voice, any voice, and when you do I hope it is one that would make Tom Waits jealous.

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 08:11 PM

good to hear your voice is on it's way back AND your accident was only a warning, not a loss

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Nancy King
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 08:31 PM

Jeez, Kendall, maybe you'd better go back to the cellar -- it's safer there!

Glad this turned out to be a scare rather than a dismemberment...

Love to you and Jacqui,
Nancy

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 09:05 PM

Can I kiss the boo boo? Can you still play the banjo? Tetanus up to date?

Damn Fool!
Love you,
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 10:01 PM

Ya know, it's probably good that it was your fingers and no Awful Damage was done (enough is enough!). Get another part caught and your voice might come back as a soprano.....

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 10:05 PM

Yikes!

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: kendall
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 10:11 PM

Hey, I'm not looking for sympathy, but I know that many musicians work with power tools. I had a scare and I just want you to pay attention.

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 10:53 PM

I can't pay attention.

We're too poor!!

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 11:53 PM

Kendall, if your voice is gone and you lose your fingers, you won't even be able to do sign language.
How will you communicate?

And if it had been the right hand, we could call you Lefty.
Quick, PM Don Meixner.

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Mar 07 - 12:37 AM

Sure glad to hear about your voice, Kendall, but we can do without any more scare stories, okay? So stay safe! I am sure Art and Spaw can find a way to crack us all up without it being at your expense!

Seriously, really glad your fingers are okay and you are safe.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Mar 07 - 03:07 PM

Now how exactly did Kendall do that?

The engine was running.

He opened the hood.

He had a drop light in his hand and it slipped.

And he tried to grab it near the ... Youch!!!!

Now I understand...

Charley Noble, who only learns through practice, not by example

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Amos
Date: 29 Mar 07 - 03:17 PM

He has a deal with Jen -- she vocalizes the insults, and the Skipper does the arm gestures. He was thinking of getting KT to volunteer, but she said she wasn't that kind of girl.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: jacqui.c
Date: 29 Mar 07 - 04:15 PM

Trust me, Amos - he can still do the vocals when he needs to - you wouldn't believe the new curses I've learned since I hooked up with the Cap'n - or maybe you would!

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: Hollowfox
Date: 29 Mar 07 - 04:50 PM

Whoof! (No digitalis for me today, thanks, my heart's getting enough of a workout). I'm glad you're ok. You're not the first, and you won't be the last to get kissed by some demon machine. I'm just glad the outcome was as good as it was.

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: MaineDog
Date: 29 Mar 07 - 06:26 PM

Sometime when we've had a few I'll tell you about my friend and his joiner planer -- it could be worse!
MD

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall's warning
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 31 Mar 07 - 11:26 AM

Kendall-
Be careful with zippers, too