Dangers of Modeling

tigerman wrote:

Triarius wrote: IF YOU ARE NOT CERTAIN THAT YOU HAVE HAD A TETANUS BOOSTER WITHIN THE LAST TEN YEARS, GET ONE IMMEDIATELY!!! I mean right now! Don't even turn off the computer, just head out the door to the county health department (They will give you one for a minimal fee.) or anywhere else you can get one. Because tetanus is so easily preventable, most people these days don't take it seriously. Today, 2007, the disease, once established, is 50 percent fatal. The only treatment is to put the patient in a dark, soundproofed room and wait. The dark and soundproofing is because light and sound can trigger the convulsions, which frequently are fatal. Yes, I'm trying to scare you. I didn't know this. I waited for two weeks to find out whether or not I had it. I have never failed to keep up on my boosters since. That's horrific. I heard it leads to lock-jaw. I think it's been about 6-7 since mine. Stepped on a pin or nail.

"Lock Jaw" is the common misnomer for tetanus. IIRC, the jaw muscles are some of the first or most severely affected by the convulsive contractions of the muscles. Horrific is a good word for it.

Triarius wrote:

IF YOU ARE NOT CERTAIN THAT YOU HAVE HAD A TETANUS BOOSTER WITHIN THE LAST TEN YEARS, GET ONE IMMEDIATELY!!! I mean right now! Don't even turn off the computer, just head out the door to the county health department (They will give you one for a minimal fee.) or anywhere else you can get one. Because tetanus is so easily preventable, most people these days don't take it seriously. Today, 2007, the disease, once established, is 50 percent fatal. The only treatment is to put the patient in a dark, soundproofed room and wait. The dark and soundproofing is because light and sound can trigger the convulsions, which frequently are fatal. Yes, I'm trying to scare you. I didn't know this. I waited for two weeks to find out whether or not I had it. I have never failed to keep up on my boosters since.

That's horrific. I heard it leads to lock-jaw. I think it's been about 6-7 since mine. Stepped on a pin or nail.

hkshooter wrote:

Hmmm. Maybe I better get one. It's been about twenty years since I was in the Navy.

By all means! Here was my "eye opener."

Our house was built in 1911, and I've been doing extensive remodeling for most of the last fifteen years or so. Needless to say, when you open up anything like a wall, it's filthy in there. I was tearing out part of a wall, and got a deep sliver embedded in my knee. I pulled it out, washed the wound with peroxide, slathered it with antibiotic, and kept working. About a week later it was still infected, so I went to the doctor. My last tetanus booster had been twelve years previous. I wasn't particularly worried—figured tetanus was treatable. After all, they'd had the vaccine for  years. Wrong, possibly dead wrong. The doctor told me we'd find out in one to two weeks weather or not I had tetanus, and that if I did the odds were 50/50, and it was a very painful way to die—or survive, for that matter. (see above). I haven't failed to keep track of my boosters, since.  Tetanus is NOT funny.

10 years? Yeah, I've had at least 2 I know of.

 They gave me one when i busted my finger open when it was smashed and another when my hand was laid open froma  saw

IF YOU ARE NOT CERTAIN THAT YOU HAVE HAD A TETANUS BOOSTER WITHIN THE LAST TEN YEARS, GET ONE IMMEDIATELY!!! I mean right now! Don't even turn off the computer, just head out the door to the county health department (They will give you one for a minimal fee.) or anywhere else you can get one.

Because tetanus is so easily preventable, most people these days don't take it seriously. Today, 2007, the disease, once established, is 50 percent fatal. The only treatment is to put the patient in a dark, soundproofed room and wait. The dark and soundproofing is because light and sound can trigger the convulsions, which frequently are fatal.

Yes, I'm trying to scare you. I didn't know this. I waited for two weeks to find out whether or not I had it. I have never failed to keep up on my boosters since.

I have no idea.......

I've been in and out of the hospital since I was in preschool for brokenbones and stitches. My medical record is a blur.I'm at 6 or 7 bones broken, 4 open wounds, 3 concusions. So somewhere along the line I've bound to have had one or two lol.  

I make sure I wear something on my feet in my workshop, I had a lesson about how dangerous PE frets can be. Once will building a piece of the metal fret I was working with dropped to the floor. It embedded into the antifatigue mat I have on the floor where I stand at my bench. I looked for the piece of fret but couldn't find it until...I stepped on it. Worse part is, I stepped on it several times, it sliced into my foot in several places as I moved about. Never felt a thing, it was so sharp and cut so cleanly, it wasn't until my foot felt sticky from the blood did I notice. The cuts weren't very deep but had the piece of fret been bigger or not buried into the mat as deep as it had things would have been worse.

I now make it a point to tape the frets to the bench so the little pieces stay in place and don't venture to the floor. It helps but stuff happens so that is why I wear something on my feet.

Now lets talk about the deep penetrating accidents with hobby knives...

I had something similar happen to me, but with a needle. The tip broke off inside my foot, and I ended up having an operation to remove it. It had been jammed into my foot between two of my toes.

Hurt like #$%%!