Injured on duty...again

[Aussie George]

Well I went and got xrays..turns out I broke it before in a different place. Can't remember exactly when but after ten years of this job, ten years Army and two years riding bulls, I have busted all sorts of bits and pieces without getting medical attention over the years.

Anyway, the Dr says I have to have three weeks in a cool splint that covers my little finger. The girl who made it had a good laugh when I said I didn't care what colour...so she made it hot pink. She was VERY CUTE!!! so I just giggled like a little school boy and said SHUCKS a lot. In fact the four staff members I saw at that place could all have featured in a swimsuit calendar. I told my wife I might have to break the other nine fingers just so I can LEGALLY go back there time and again.

After 3 weeks of that, they reckon 3 more weeks of rehab. So all up 6 weeks until back on the road which means a lot reading books at the station. I will be put on the front counter, but our station is not open all the time and this basically means I will have a lot of time to do nothing. At least it means 8a - 4p Mon - Friday for a while.

I have enrolled in a course that I need to do to get promoted to SGT so some good will come of it. I had put it off before because I was too busy.

I also intend to put in (tomorrow) for a chance to relieve at the Academy as a firearms/ ops safety instructor for a few months next year. If successful (which I doubt) I will be an acting SGT from January to October next year.

I will lose my Shift allowances but the difference to SGT wages means I will be about the same, with no shift work and no dealing with clients or typing...and lots of playing with guns.

Also found out today that next week I am getting a citation. Not really much to brag about. Late last year and early this year we had cyclones and floods. It was crazy. What they decided to do was give out a citation to anyone who worked at shift, anywhere in the state, during the period. So even if you worked the front counter in an area that was not even directly affected, you get one. Given it is over a few month period, most get it...except for one of the guys at our station who is also in the Army (Commando) and was recalled to do a tour in Afghanistan at the time. I was telling him today that while he had a chest full of medals due to his rather unique second job, he was not able to get a medal I am getting just for going to work.

I was told I am also getting another citation for a job I did during the floods but I will go into detail on that one when it happens, which is likely to be early next year.

[greg72982]

You been talking to my wife?

Oh yes, we are tight.

[MikeG]

Finger breaks suck. I've fractured fingers a couple times and the way the doctor described it is when a bone breaks it releases chemicals to tell the body to heal the break. Except finger bones are too small and the release is too small so they take forever to heal. He gave me options like "we can break it more so it heals faster." I didn't much care for that option.

[Aussie George]

Daniel CHICK is a football player over here. He dislocated/broke his left ring finger in 2002. He was told it would take months to heal. He found out it would take a lot less time to heal if he had it amputated....so off it came.

Had has finger chopped off so he could return to footy quicker.

I am not that fussed if it takes a while.

[Aussie George]

Oh yes, we are tight.

My wife is too classy for you.


Then again she's too classy for me.

[ChesCopPodz]

I have a crooked pinky finger. Broke it when I was 14 and never went to the doc. It healed in a spiral sort of configuration.

[deputywave]

I broke my right ring finger back in college. It healed at a crazy angle. Good Job George!!

[Samuel]

you guys are crazy!



:D

[Aussie George]

I have a crooked pinky finger. Broke it when I was 14 and never went to the doc. It healed in a spiral sort of configuration.

IT IS A TERMINAL PHALANX!!!! NOT PINKY!!!


How the hell do you all think I am going to milk this for all it is worth if you all keep calling it a pinky finger!?!?!? My wife could read this!!!!

[Aussie George]

you guys are crazy!



:D

My partner did bring this scene up at the time. I told him if he touches me I would shoot him!!

[Aussie George]

I broke my right ring finger back in college. It healed at a crazy angle. Good Job George!!

The Dr looked at the xrays and saw that I had already broken this bone previously. The xray is crazy...the bone goes on a real wild angle. I tried to scan it but it didn't work out.

[MikeG]

IT IS A TERMINAL PHALANX!!!! NOT PINKY!!!


How the hell do you all think I am going to milk this for all it is worth if you all keep calling it a pinky finger!?!?!? My wife could read this!!!!

It's the one you stick out when you drink your tea, right?

[Aussie George]

It's the one you stick out when you drink your tea, right?

It is now!

[Legoate]

I guess there goes your sex life for a while...

Nah, just use the other hand, it's like being with a stranger.