I finally did it

The culprit

 Don't get all excited, it's nothing good,

 although it had a good outcome.

So at 55 I have finally sewed myself to my work with the machine

Ungh

I have always been cautious about this eventuality as most of the women in my family sew in some capacity and they all have "War" stories about putting the needle through a finger.

And I distinctly remember having to help my Mother, pull the needle out of her thumb with a pair of pliers, when she did hers

So I knew this was a possibility

It is quite a shock when it happens you though

At first I couldn't understand, why had the machine stopped?

What could it have possibly hit?

There was no pin to hit there

Pro-tip: don't try to yank your hand away, it's attached.

As I realized what had happened, at first I was astonished, It hadn't yet begun to hurt.

Then worried about the piece I was sewing, no blood YAY!, Yet.

Unscrew the needle from the machine, look to see the damage, 

Wow! good machine it went clear through the finger, thread and all!

poke it, ow, OK don't poke it

Grab a pair of pliers on the way to the bathroom, find the bandaids and the gauze, 

now where did I put the damned things?

Try to pull it out myself........................Herngh!.........................nope it's stuck

*Sigh*

Go look up the nearest urgent care facility

call doctors office and see what they can do, go tell DDH

who react's like It's baby time, It's just a needle honey, Icandrivemyselfdon'tbesilly. 

Needless to say I did not drive myself

By the time we got the "so sorry we're booked you need to go to the urgent care facility"

20 minutes had come and gone, we were already on our way down the hill, and the finger started to hurt

I'm adding the gory details for those who are interested but if you are at all squeamish, don't look.

you have been warned

Yep that's the tread I was using

OOOwuie!

The two dots down by the knuckle are from the lidocaine shot, much better.

Good thing I'd taken off my Wedding ring the day before to clean it and hadn't gotten around to putting it back on yet! Otherwise it too would be stuck and I was informed they might have had to cut it off!

The nice doctor and nurses fussed over me for about an hour and a half giving me a lidocaine shot.

AAHHHHH! Much better! 

It ended up taking two of them to pull the needle out, with hemostats (Not the tool for the job)         turns out my pliers would have been better! Then got my hand x-rayed 4 different ways to make sure It wasn't through the bone, it wasn't.

Bones are surprisingly sturdy things, I love my skeleton!

Anyway, back home again, with a bottle of hydrocodone which now that the initial trauma and swelling are gone I don't really need. 

This morning you can barely see where it happened and it doesn't hurt unless you poke it hard,             so don't do that!

Just a little bruised, poor thing

It's that dot on the 4th finger