This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment My worst injury (so far) involved moving a Hamburg S&S B through a = doorway at Lincoln Center in NY. A "helpful" stage hand came along and = without saying anything to the three of us doing the move, pulled on the = piano which caused it to lurch through the doorway just as the door = began to swing shut. Caught my left middle finger in the trapwork and = left about 3/4" of the tip of my finger on the shift lever (ouch). = Literally the most painful injury of my life. I rushed to Roosevelt = hospital about two blocks away and the ER doc (dressed in his tennis = whites on a Sunday afternoon) wanted to "amputate the first digit" but = told me to come back the next day for the procedure. I guess he had a = match to play that day. I decided to see a hand specialist the next day = instead. He checked me in to the hospital and did a procedure where they = cut a flap in the palm of my hand and sewed my finger to it. Four days = in recovery and I was in a cast for six weeks. Then when they cut my = finger free that really smarted! I had a big hunk of skin growing out of = the end of my finger. I just knew I'd never play the bass again. Six = weeks of physical therapy and it began to look a little more normal but = still somewhat deformed.=20 That was all back in 1983 but today the finger looks just like the = others and even has feeling in the tip. a real "Frankenstein" operation = but my advice is if you severly injure your hand, see a specialist (and = I don't mean an RPT). It's amazing what they can do. Phil Romano Myrtle Beach, SC philromano@attglobal.net ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/35/8f/38/4a/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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