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Old 05-07-2010, 07:14 AM
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Here's my tale of woe...
Hi, I just new this subject would surface on day, and it did. Read on....
One fine spring day a few years ago, I'm getting my other ride (1967 EType Jag) road worthy. So, I'm changing the coolant. I have on my favorite sweat shirt (Verizon), from wince I retired in 2003 (after 35 years, and at 55 years young). I'm on the driver's side reaching across to touch the upper rad hose feeling for heat, thus the "T" stat is opening. While doing this I have to reach across the top mounted Alternator, which, took a liking to my dangling sweat shirt sleeve....Well what do you think happened next?
Well, the next thing I knew, I was in a battle for my arm with the alternator pully whic was trying to reel me in by the attached sleeve. Before I could pull myself free, the fins had dug the flesh from my are exposing the forearm muscle tissue. My Wife was out doing her real-estate thang, so there I was, bleeding, in slight shock, but thinking, I did win the tug-of-war with the pulley. It only ate the lower half of my sleeve! So, I gathered my thoughts looked at the fore-arm damaged and thought "this is far more serious for a band-aid application, so quite calmly, I drove the Jag back into the garage, Grab the keys to the caddy and proceeded to drive to the emergency room of the nearest hospital. Don't you know, I got every red light and even, was stuck behind a school bus for part of the way. My worse nightmare I was going into shock! But, I made it to to the E-room, walked up the the Triage nurse and gave her my story, seeing the blood dripping down my arm from beneath my tee shirt wrapped forearm, she sent me right back for a "look-see" . So, up walks a young resident, who takes a look at the exposed muscular forearm and says "you need a more experienced attendee" I immediately thought of the passage from JAWS! You know that passage, I think we need a bigger....! Well 33 stitches latter an a few months of follow-up, I'm good as new. To this day, 5-6 years later, I still have the scared reminder of a very stupid thing I did. Now I am armed (no pun) with a new mantra: "safety first", no baggy clothes, no jewelery, etc. when I work on my junk. BTW, the yellow tail in my avatar was the culprit!
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