Woohoo! Beamer gonna get lit

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Wow Finally, 3 weeks off from work and I can actually fire Beamer up and do some creative activities for Christmas goodies.

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I’m so very jealous!!

I fired up Erich today for some quick gifts, but I’ve got to go to work in the morning :stuck_out_tongue:

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Yay!!

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Yay for you!

I need to clean my area before I can use my Glowforge.

But I can’t clean it for a while because of my surgery. I don’t trust myself with only using my non-dominant hand and know I’ll end up doing something that will be bad. So it will have to wait… Have fun and make something awesome.

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Be sure to show us what you make!

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@trually , I hope you have a happy cake day and get to feeling better.:blush:

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Thanks! It doesn’t feel too bad! As long as I’m taking ibuprofen. It’s just so hard to keep myself from automatically doing things with my right hand. lol

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I whacked off the end of my right index finger decades ago. even being left handed it was very hard to NOT do something that would cause me to bang it into something as it healed up. The struggle was real.

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I almost fainted reading this. I’ve never fainted before, but the wave of dizziness I got reading the first sentence made me clutch my coffee harder than my normal “please help me get through another day” grip.

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I was working in a machine shop and my best friend was having a golf ball sized malignant melanoma getting yanked out of the side of his neck. I was a tad distracted. since then he’s even had a heart transplant. he does not buy lottery tickets as he’s used all of his luck units up.

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Oof, that story didn’t help either. I have been finding that things I had no issue with when I was younger have now started affecting me. I used to be ok with anything except bones, now, I think a well-placed papercut would make me cringe.

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There is nothing like that sharp pain that suddenly shoots through you and makes your eyes water until it heals enough so it’s only a dull shooting pain :slightly_smiling_face:

But when I cut my fingertip off it gave me an objective measure of pain for all the times I get asked “on a scale of 1 to 10 how much does it hurt?”. There’s really no universally shared reference for that (my wife had bone on bone scraping due to hip arthritis she suffered with for several years - the doc asked her the 1 to 10 and she said 4 or 5 and he was unhappy because insurance would only cover a replacement if it were over a 6 or 7…he took an X-ray and said her scale was way off and told the insurance company it was an 8 or 9; he didn’t know how she was still walking).

My “10” is what debridement of my fingertip felt like without any kind of anesthesia as they scraped off the gauze I had used to bandage it the day before when I cut off the tip. (For men, a kick in the groin is a 5 on that scale :shaking_face:) It had begun to incorporate itself into the open tissue as that dried and began to seal itself off. I tell that to a doctor and he knows what my scale is like :smiley:

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I feel for your wife on that scale. I had a chiro tell me “Most people would be in the ER is they’d dislocated that many vertebrae. Add 4 to whatever number that comes into your head when asked that question.” and I have since then. I get better service from Doctors that way too!

Ouch on debridement. My sibling accidentally cut off the pad of my ring finger with a screen door when I was young. Luckily we went straight to the Doc and got it fixed. It does mean fingerprints are always a fight because the electronic machines will not believe that’s my fingerprint.

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Enjoy!

Georgie Forgie (Laser and Eye) and I have been burning the midnight oil… gifts still have to make it to TX from MN.

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My grandpa only had half of one of his pinky fingers. (Of course he would use it to play jokes on kids all the time. LOL) But the way it happened makes me cringe - he was laying railroad track.

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For me, it was when my (ex-) hand surgeon strayed outside the area that was anesthetized during a trigger finger release.

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Great :shaking_face::face_with_diagonal_mouth: I have to see an ortho next month about bilateral thumb trigger release. Always something when you get old.:smiley:

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