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I had an accident at work two weeks ago today, my hand was pulled into a machine & I've lost two fingers, i was rushed to Stoke Mandeville hospital in bucks, cannot praise the care & attention i received enough in my four day stay.

Outpatient waiting time is a different story though.

What an awful thing to happened to you McB.

Wishing you all the best and hope that you are recovering well.

Jo

What a dreadful think to happen. Wish you well.

Ohh McB I'm so sorry to hear that how dreadful for you , nice to hear you got good care at the hosp; and hope you continue to recover. Take care

What a dreadful thing to happen - hope you recover well.

Very sorry to hear about your accident McB. I'm glad that you had excellent treatment at the hospital. Hope that you have good follow-up treatment and that you recover well. All the best.

Sorry to hear of your horrific accident, but glad to know you were treated so well for your initial care.

I hope you heal well.

Gwyn

I am sorry to read this and hope you will make a good recovery and get lots of support from your company.

Treat yourself gently at this time, trauma can cause different reactions in different people and you must ask for help if you need it.

Will be thinking about you

Lizx

Obviously not your 2 typing fingers!! :-) Good luck with your recovery and learning to cope without those 2.

Dear me..glad you had good treatment at hospital.think it is sometimes the aftercare where a lot fall down with delayed appointments.
Take care...I remember my dad having the top of his finger off in a machine at work..he was a wood cutting machinist and in those days took quite a long time to heal,sure these days with the medication will be much quicker.still it's traumatic at best...and do wish you well.

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Ouch, McB! How awful for you. Hope you recover quickly. BC XX

McB Sorry to hear this. So pleased that you were treated well in Stoke M. I suspect that, as usual outpatient waiting times are down to having to cram everyone into 10 minute or less slots and it doesn't work like that, things happen that skew the timimings. Annoying though isn't it. (Mind you my hospital appointment (20 minute one) yesterday was for 4pm, I went in about two minutes past and was out before 20 past so not bad at all Glos royal).

I hope your hand will heal well and that the injury was not because of a missing guard on the machine. :-)

Thanks all for your kind messages.
Liz.
Unfortunately there's no company support, i am the company, a one man band joiner, ins premiums that cover the use of woodworking machinery are mindbogglingly expensive, 20k a year plus, it's out of reach in the current climate of little work so here i am sitting at home healing, no pain at all from the stumps but loads of pain from the missing digits, it's called phantom pain & boy does it hurt, after the op which was done ( three hours of sheer agony under a local anesthetic so i could talk to the surgeon about what was the best thing to do with the damaged fingers i went back to the ward & felt ok, an hour later my blood pressure dropped to 60 & i only remember coming round with a crash team around me full of lines of plumbing, apparently i was out for about half an hour & it was a close thing, they think it was shock/trauma.

I'm sorry to read this McB, especially since you are self employed.

I hope you the pain will go soon and that you will have some support dealing with the trauma and also financially.

So pleased that you came out of that, how frightening. And now, as you are self employed you will be itching to get back to work but I am sure it would be sensible not to rush it. I hope things work out for you. Is there any support from the hospital (a group or something) that you could go to, somebody might be able to give advice on the phantom pain.

Brian I am so sorry to hear of your accident,
I've been in that situation but only lost one part, top of 4th finger right hand,
I hope you get over the trauma soon, will take a while for your "missing bits " to finally not cause you any more pain,
I was a little dismayed at what my injuries at the time looked like, but now it doesn't bother me at all,
wishing you well,

Bob

I'M GLAD YOU RECIEVED GOOD CARE ,NICE
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McB, sorry to hear about your accident.

There's no support from the hospital except for outpatients for dressing changes, got to go back next Tuesday & if the weeping has stopped then i can return to work.
Being self employed & owning a business i am not eligible for any kind of financial support, trying to claim is a total nightmare unless you know the system, when i had my prostate done i tried to claim, i was told as i had a business then i had assets ie my machinery & tools of my trade which i could sell, ok great what happens when I'm fit to return to work & can't because i don't have the tools, not our problem they said.

a lot of people think the self employed are coining it it & have a great life, yeah right,
No income now, no holiday pay, no sick pay, if i don't work then i don't earn simple as that, a lot of the time i have to go looking for work to survive.
Be a good idea for other out of workpeople. No i'll stop there but you get the idea !!!!

Sorry that you are having such a bad time. The accident sounds horrific!

I hope you will soon be feeling a little better before long, although it seems being self employed that you won't have support from a Company, that must be an added worry for you..... take care now.