So I haven’t written anything on the blog for a while. Here’s a copout… My hand was hit with a nail from a nail gun. Yup that’s right. My left index and middle fingers were stabbed brutally by a nail 2 Saturdays ago. I’m not really sure how it got there. But I probably did it, since the nail gun was in my hand at the time. I wish I had some cool pictures that I could post up here. But unfortunately I don’t. And it’s pretty much healed now anyway.
I did it while working on a playhouse in the backyard. It was actually pretty funny. My dad was right there and I kind of hid my hand because I couldn’t believe what I just did. He saw it and gasped, “Gordon!” So he took my hand and pulled out the nail with a pair of pliers. I walked in the house holding my hand and stopped at the tile because I didn’t want to get it on the carpet (of course). There was blood everywhere on the tile and my dad came running down with two bandaids (one for each finger I guess). I kind of laughed and told him to get some paper towels.
We went to the clinic and they cleaned me up and gave me a tetanus shot and sent me home with antibiotics (I think I only took a total of 4, I was supposed to take 3 a day for like a few weeks). So we went home and were right back out again working on the playhouse. But this time I was a little more careful with the nailgun. They playhouse will be pretty sweet when it’s done. I’m looking forward to posting our handiwork soon.
I was lucky that it didn’t hit any bone. Just the fleshy part of my finger. And I guess it’s not really a copout because I could type fine after it happened. But it was quite an adventure.