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Really bad timing!

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Looked out the window early this afternoon to see 3 coyotes calmly hunting in the field across the road from my house. An hour ago I saw 2 more and then another one in the field behind me. None were over 250 yards away.

Why bad timing? I had my left forefinger amputated this morning due to a 14 year old old injury that left damage that began causing issues that could have led to gangrene. Thankfully not my shooting hand, but the bulky dressing on my left hand and admonishment by my doctor to not let it get over-chilled for a couple weeks left me unable to act, just dream! Maybe they'll stick around...or not.
 
Sorry to hear of your finger trouble.Take care of that hand. You will get another crack at those coyotes. Good luck.
 
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Thanks for the thoughts. I'll be fine. I just couldn't believe my bad luck!

14 years ago I got into a fight with a table saw. No guesses as to who won. Supposedly the best hand surgeon in the Midwest operated three times (first for resection of the nerves, second to prepare for a tendon transplant, third was to replace the tendon). By the time the third operation rolled around it was obvious that the nerves weren't working right and circulation was minimal...in fact the day of surgery the entire finger was a dark blue. I told the doctor that I felt he had tried his best, but if it was best to amputate, he had my permission. Whoo! He blew up and told me that we were no where near that point and proceeded as planned. I later found that I was his last surgical project before he retired. Guess he didn't want to go out on a failure.

Flash forward 10 years of the finger becoming progressively more useless and the other fingers learning to take its place and doctors just shrugging their shoulders, I was finally sent to another hand specialist for evaluation. He looked at it, sat back folding his arms across his chest and sneered "What do you want me to do about it?" I wanted to tell him to bend over and I would show him, but my wife was there and has been trying for 47 years to make a lady out of me. Instead I left.

Earlier this month I had an elbow bursa sac fill with fluid. No big deal but ugly and can become infected if not removed. The surgeon that took care of it noticed my finger, got my story and asked when I wanted him to remove it. I jokingly said "Tomorrow". Without batting an eye he looked at his schedule and said "See you 6:30 am next Friday." I was shocked, but thrilled. Told him I'd be there! Great guy, well beloved by the medical community, extremely skilled and a really weird sense of humor...just like me.

I won't miss the darned thing because it has been in the way of far too much over the years...but again thanks for your kind words.

Now if those blamed coyotes will just hang around....
 
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Looked out the window early this afternoon to see 3 coyotes calmly hunting in the field across the road from my house. An hour ago I saw 2 more and then another one in the field behind me. None were over 250 yards away.

Why bad timing? I had my left forefinger amputated this morning due to a 14 year old old injury that left damage that began causing issues that could have led to gangrene. Thankfully not my shooting hand, but the bulky dressing on my left hand and admonishment by my doctor to not let it get over-chilled for a couple weeks left me unable to act, just dream! Maybe they'll stick around...or not.
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Dedication.
My hat is off to you.
 
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Best wishes for a speedy & full recovery. There will be more 'yotes wanting you to come out and play next year, or later this year.
 
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I hear ya all kinds of perfect chit happens at the most imperfect times for me also.
Sry bout the finger.
I wish I had been more aware of the importance of not banging my hands around quite so much.
 
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A few weeks from now you can shake the remainder of the offending finger at a dead coyote and say "I told you not to hang around here." That will heal up and you'll be back to doing what you need to do right quick.
 
SSL said:
Looked out the window early this afternoon to see 3 coyotes calmly hunting in the field across the road from my house. An hour ago I saw 2 more and then another one in the field behind me. None were over 250 yards away.

Why bad timing? I had my left forefinger amputated this morning due to a 14 year old old injury that left damage that began causing issues that could have led to gangrene. Thankfully not my shooting hand, but the bulky dressing on my left hand and admonishment by my doctor to not let it get over-chilled for a couple weeks left me unable to act, just dream! Maybe they'll stick around...or not.
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After reading your other post it's a good thing you went ahead a dealt with it now... Here's a story that's somewhat related....

During WW2 my grandfather was wounded in the battle of the bulge by a large piece of German artillery shrapnel that hit a tree and went through his leg... It made a huge hole through the leg , I was once told you could have put one of the old coke bottles through it... He also had frost bite on his feet but didn't lose any toes but I think that bothered him more over his life than the other... He healed up and became the largest production farmer for many years in S. Texas , 30+ years total so he wasn't scared to work and it definitely didn't slow him down... He live to be almost 96 and in the end his circulation slowed down and those old injuries got him , they wanted to take the leg but we knew he wouldn't make it much longer so we didn't...

On his death certificate it listed death as war related injuries , so it took 70+ years but those Germans eventually got him with that artillery round.... He all in all had a great life , was married to his sweetheart for over 70+ years and they were as bad as high school kids even in the end... They were actually interviewed for a book on longest lasting marriages in America... So long story short you will heal up , you will get those yotes and it was better to deal with it now , than much worse later in life...
 
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while woodchuck hunting I watched coyotes on fields hunting and they ate 100's of field mice. they would rear up pound their front paws on the ground then the nose in the ground pop up chewing a mouse. field mice carry lyme disease and others forms of the black plague in their blood . I did not know this but mice get the tick eggs on them where the eggs feed off the mice and hatch getting lyme disease and other forms that are worse from the mice blood. so to me the more mice coyotes eat the better it is. never shot any. look to much like dogs
 
My friend's 15 year old Sheltie was killed by a pair of coyotes 30 yards from his door. I understand coyotes kill mice, but......

Oh, and they killed off most of the red fox around here also.
 
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My dad fell off a train at 9. It got both his legs below the knees. he worked 32 years in a steel mill. Walked on blisters the size of oranges on his stumps. Never missed work.

I have a few screws and bars in my back. i miss work and feel like crap. I am a wimp.
 
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My friend's 15 year old Sheltie was killed by a pair of coyotes 30 yards from his door. I understand coyotes kill mice, but......

Oh, and they killed off most of the red fox around here also.
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yeah they must have killed my cat also. I believe they kill cats and fox cause of competition for food. my cat would sometimes kill baby rabbits just for fun which is a coyotes delicacy
 
My brother cut his finger off with a table saw. Picked it up put it on ice and drove to the hospital. The hand surgeon happened to be on duty and told him that he could reattach it but that in three to five years my brother would come back begging to get it removed. So they just left it. My kids call him Uncle Stumpy
 
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