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I meant to update sooner, but because of an injury I got at UPS it has (and still is) difficult/uncomfortable to type.
Two Thursdays ago (the 8th of this month, with three more days to go until I was done) I was getting the last box out of the last truck of the night. The truck was a "drop-frame" which has flaps that basically give the truck two levels to put boxes on. The box was the only box below the flaps. I opened one flap, jumped down and bent over to get the box, and the flap came crashing down, and my right pointer finger felt quite - odd, not painful (yet) but just not good.
I yanked my hand in and ran out of the truck into the light (below the flaps is quite dark with all of them down) to see if I still had a finger, and I did. So then my immediate supervisorI ran to the Health and Safety Dept. bleeding all the way, and when they saw me they freaked out. There was quite a bit of blood on both my hands, my shirt, my pants, and a trail from the truck to H&S (which is about a 5 minute walk-2or3 minute run).
So already kind of long story short, UPS called their on-site EMS ambulance, and they gave me a bit of gauze to stop the bleeding, and stuck me in an ambulance which drove me off of UPS grounds, so ANOTHER ambulance could take me to the emergency room. They took me inside, I waited awhile, got a free tetnus shot, an INCREDIBLEY painful injection in my finger to numb it (so the could clean/bandage it), and an x-ray. I also got one more ambulance ride back to UPS to pick up my car. It was a long night, I got injured at around 9:15, got to my car around 12:30
In the end, none of my finger bones were broken or fractured, and I lost none of my finger or fingernail, except a good bit of skin from about the last knuckle to the very tip, they had to cut some of the damaged skin off, and I left some of it in the truck (my going away present to UPS) so I got about 3 or 4 stitches, which I have to have removed this Wed the 21st. Although it doesn't hurt constantly now, it still does if I try to use it much or bang it on anything - and I still have a bandaid on it constantly. Not only for protection but it still looks pretty bad. Even luckier is the fact that I don't really need that particular finger for my horn. Alhough please excuse any typos, since it's not easy to type with 9 fingers when your used to 10.
Also, because all the people at UPS felt so bad about me getting injured with only a few days to go, I didn't have to go in on my last two days (Mon. and Tues.) and I got a good rehire status and workmans comp and all that stuff.
There's more I want to update about, but for now I just wanted to let you all know what was going on - I'll probably update again after the stitches come out (I've heard this might hurt, does anyone have any experience with stitches being removed? and I can type with it again, since this has taken a lot longer than normal.
Two Thursdays ago (the 8th of this month, with three more days to go until I was done) I was getting the last box out of the last truck of the night. The truck was a "drop-frame" which has flaps that basically give the truck two levels to put boxes on. The box was the only box below the flaps. I opened one flap, jumped down and bent over to get the box, and the flap came crashing down, and my right pointer finger felt quite - odd, not painful (yet) but just not good.
I yanked my hand in and ran out of the truck into the light (below the flaps is quite dark with all of them down) to see if I still had a finger, and I did. So then my immediate supervisorI ran to the Health and Safety Dept. bleeding all the way, and when they saw me they freaked out. There was quite a bit of blood on both my hands, my shirt, my pants, and a trail from the truck to H&S (which is about a 5 minute walk-2or3 minute run).
So already kind of long story short, UPS called their on-site EMS ambulance, and they gave me a bit of gauze to stop the bleeding, and stuck me in an ambulance which drove me off of UPS grounds, so ANOTHER ambulance could take me to the emergency room. They took me inside, I waited awhile, got a free tetnus shot, an INCREDIBLEY painful injection in my finger to numb it (so the could clean/bandage it), and an x-ray. I also got one more ambulance ride back to UPS to pick up my car. It was a long night, I got injured at around 9:15, got to my car around 12:30
In the end, none of my finger bones were broken or fractured, and I lost none of my finger or fingernail, except a good bit of skin from about the last knuckle to the very tip, they had to cut some of the damaged skin off, and I left some of it in the truck (my going away present to UPS) so I got about 3 or 4 stitches, which I have to have removed this Wed the 21st. Although it doesn't hurt constantly now, it still does if I try to use it much or bang it on anything - and I still have a bandaid on it constantly. Not only for protection but it still looks pretty bad. Even luckier is the fact that I don't really need that particular finger for my horn. Alhough please excuse any typos, since it's not easy to type with 9 fingers when your used to 10.
Also, because all the people at UPS felt so bad about me getting injured with only a few days to go, I didn't have to go in on my last two days (Mon. and Tues.) and I got a good rehire status and workmans comp and all that stuff.
There's more I want to update about, but for now I just wanted to let you all know what was going on - I'll probably update again after the stitches come out (I've heard this might hurt, does anyone have any experience with stitches being removed? and I can type with it again, since this has taken a lot longer than normal.