Don’t worry, I’m still alive

[Peter Normington]

I thought the boards were a bit quiet!

Seriously though Shane, sorry to hear about your accident, hope you recover as quickly as possible.

Peter

[Carrie Brown]

Poor you Shane, hope you are feeling a lot better soon. Im sure your luck will improve before too long 😉

[Shane Drew]

Thanks Peter and Carrie.

It can’t get much worse. Dad is recovering from his quadrupal bypass, and I’m laid up with my hand, so my mum is holding the fort 😕

[Chris Wool]

not your year then 😀 .

why is it that moms can do anything never worked that one out.

mend well

chris

[Martin Cole]

Blimey Shane, sure aint your year (!)

Lethal little things are those scalpels

Take care and I wish you well mate

Martin 😀

[Phill Fenton]

Here’s wishing you a speedy and full recovery Shane 😀

[Robert Lambie]

sorry to hear abouyt this mate, guess im not the only one to have these type of accidents 😳
hope your on the mend real soon and able to get back into the swing of things…. and i hope all is well for your dad too.

[Marcella Ross]

Hi Shane,

sorry to hear about your accident, hope you’re on the road to recovery soon! Take care.

Marcella.

[Stephen Morriss]

Ooh, nasty.

Hope it heals well Shane.

Steve

[Marekdlux]

Hope you have a speedy recovery Shane. I think all of us here should pitch in and purchase you a new set of blades.

:lol1:
Get well soon.
-Marek

[Lynn Normington]

Chin up Shane it can only get better, keep cheerful and get well soon

Lynn

[Russell Pavey]

Get well soon Shane

[Richard Urquhart]

get well soon mate i did it but not as bad it took more then 6 months before i could bend it fully back
i thought i would never be able to clench my fist but all is fine now

i hope you have a speedy recovery mate

rich

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Sorry to hear this, Shane.
Hope you will soon be on the mend.
Rich, glad you can "bend it" again.
love….jill

[Richard Urquhart]

i can but not like beckham !!

[Nicola McIntosh]

hope you all get better soon shane 😉

nik

[David Rowland]

I suspect she hasn’t heard of Beckham 😛

[Marekdlux]

quote Dave Rowland:

I suspect she hasn’t heard of Beckham 😛

Oh come on Dave, isn’t he the guy that married a Spice girl? I heard he plays circket or something as well.
-Marek

BTW, just kidding. 😉

[Cabrera]

Hi Shane !
sorry to hear about your accident, hope you recovery soon!
Take care
Sal

[Adam McGuire]

Hi Shane,

Really hope you get back to work soon, I’d go mad if I couldn’t work! It’s ok for a day or two, but I get bored quickly after that!

Take it easy,

Adam

[Duncan Wilkie]

I wish you a speedy and full recovery Shane.

[Shane Drew]

Thanks friends. You are a great bunch and have cheered my up today.

I appreciate that.

I am climbing the walls with boredom at the moment.

I don’t know how paul is coping with both hands in plaster, but I’m going to be a wreck by the time I’m allowed to get back to work!

Cancelled all my work for his coming week, no I’ve just got to work out how I’m going to pay my bills 😕

Ah yes, the joys of being self employed!! 🙄

Shane

[Jayne Marsh]

Poor Shane, you are really not good with scalpels are you? Sounds really painful, hope you mend quickly xx

[David Rogers]

Best wishes Shane, the lengths you have to go to to get some time off work is just astounding!!
I just winced when I read the ‘tendon bit’ as so far I’ve been lucky enough (despite a lot of stabbing & some finger trimming) to miss anything vital. Hope you have a speedy recovery, and your customers are understanding.

Dave

[Dave & Rob Lowery]

Hope you’re feeling better Shane. With all these visits to hospitals, I hope you are getting some reciprocal work off them 😀

[Lorraine Clinch]

Blimey Shane, what a year it’s been for you and your family. 😮

Hope both you and your dad mend soon.

Lorraine

[Leigh]

ahhhh Shane sorry to hear – what a year huh.
Hope you heal fast and feel better.
And good wishes to your father as well.

[Maurice McNicholl]

Hi Shane
Haven’t posted a message to you before but have enjoyed a lot of your advice and support to others and found it useful and enjoyable.
Sorry about the accident – a warning to us all I think.
Hope you recover speedily – try to enjoy a few days rest!!

Maurice McNicholl

[John Stevenson]

Hi Shane

I haven’t posted to you before either but I was sorry to hear of the accident.

Does this mean that there will be a shortfall in the supply of jokes and funny stories? That would be very disappointing!

Get well soon.

Best regards
John

[Bart Van Wassenhove]

Hi shane,

sorry to hear from your accident! Hope you and your hand get well soon.

Cheers,
bart

[Nick Minall]

Get well soon Shane, and be careful!

Nick.

[Steve Coyle]

Sorry to here your bad news Shane, I’ve had a few close shaves with my own scalpel, even stabbed myself in the back side once or twice. Hope you make a speedy recovery mate!

[Micheal Donnellan]

Get better soon hope it don’t hurt much

just take you time and don’t rush, be 😎

oh yeah don’t forget where you put your scalpel and sit on it, that hurts!

[Shane Drew]

Thanks again for the nice words and support everyone.

I really appreciate it.

Going to the office this morning to see what I can do. Got heaps of artwork I can finish, and it is a good opportunity to see how much I can do on the ezy taper with one hand 🙄

My wife and my mother are the only drivers now, so I have to work around their day. Got to be really nice to both of them now, or they’ll make me go underwear or dress shopping with them 😕

[Simon Kay]

Hey Shane,

Hope you’re on the mend.

If only you knew someone relatively near………..?! MmmnnmMMmnn

and remember…the first cut is the deepest!!! 😮

Cheers
Simon

[Shane Drew]

quote Simon Kay:

Hey Shane,

Hope you’re on the mend.

If only you knew someone relatively near………..?! MmmnnmMMmnn

and remember…the first cut is the deepest!!! 😮

Cheers
Simon

Don’t worry mate, got your number in big letters on my work monitor.

Do you do fridge magnets? I need 6000!

I was looking to send you an email, but don’t have the address on my home PC 🙄

I’ll contact you when I get to work today

Cheers

[Bryan Cabrera]

All the best Shane. Hope you make a quick recovery!
Hell of away to take time off.

[Shane Drew]

Thanks Bryan.

me thinks it is going to be a long week. just had a customer tell me if I can’t install her signs by Friday, she’ll cancel the lot.

Then she wished me a speedy recovery 🙄

sheesh 😕

[Jayne Marsh]

customers are so sympathetic, wish I was nearer so I could help out 😀

[Shane Drew]

Thanks Jayne, it is the thought that counts.

Got Simon Kay and a couple of local shops that have offered to help. I’ll have a better idea on monday how long my recovery will take after seeing the specialist again.

Just as with my knee, I have discovered who my best customers are, and who don’t appreciate my loyalty over the years. Fortunately the latter are small in number.

Cheers

[Lee Ballard]

Sorry to hear about that Shane, hope you are well on the mend. Not trying to compete with Mr Bacardis accident antics are you.

If it helps, in November dad done a similar thing to his hand only instead of a scapel he used a circular saw, cut first finger on left hand VERY badly, severing most things bar one leader according to the surgeon 😮

Four hour op and good news is apart from a little less feeling all back to normal now so hope yours mends just as well if not better.

All the best mate

[Shane Drew]

Wow Lee, making me feel a bit squirmish now.

Amazing amount of clients that know someone that has done a similar thing to me tho.

Does not give me much comfort other than to know there are other ‘dills’ like me around.

One of the nurses came up to me and said ‘you must be a sign maker’. I said yes, how did you guess.

She said here brother is a sign maker in melbourne and he did the exact same thing some months ago.

Didn’t make me feel any better either, but I’m obviously not alone in what I did.

Cheers and thanks for the post.

[Phil Halling]

HI shane,
Sorry to hear of all your misfortunes this year, I hope you soon have a change of luck sounds like your well overdue one.

Get well soon
All the best
Phil

[Andy Gorman]

Ouch. Sorry to hear about the injury Shaney. I wish you a speedy recovery.

And do try to be a bit more careful. (Although we’ve all lost a fingertip or two!)

[Vitor Brito]

Hope you make a speedy recovery!
All the best M8.

Cheers
Vitor Brito

[Shane Drew]

Thanks friends. I see the specialist on monday. He is going to see if he can get me out of the cast and into a splint.

I hope he can coz this cast is driving me nuts. Got my fingers bent and my wrist bent too. I feel like the start of a pretzel!

Thanks again

[Brian Little]

quote Shane Drew:

Thanks friends. I see the specialist on monday. He is going to see if he can get me out of the cast and into a splint.

I hope he can coz this cast is driving me nuts. Got my fingers bent and my wrist bent too. I feel like the start of a pretzel!

Thanks again

Shane mate your a handless git and a drain on the oz health system 😀 😀 get well soon my friend

ps weve had adverts running in the UK for ages with the line "I WAS GIVEN THE WRONG LADDER"an insurance company (ambulance chasers")..perhaps you could star in them for a casher . your the real deal 😀 😀

[Shane Drew]

quote Brian Little:

Shane mate your a handless git and a drain on the oz health system 😀 😀 get well soon my friend

ps weve had adverts running in the UK for ages with the line “I WAS GIVEN THE WRONG LADDER”an insurance company (ambulance chasers”)..perhaps you could star in them for a casher . your the real deal 😀 😀

😮 :rofl:

Thanks Brian… I think 🙄

had a mate ring me tonight telling me that things come in 3’s. Thats all I need, be looking over me shoulder all the time now, probably cause an accident 😕

[Cheryl Tissington]

Hi Shane,

get well soon

Cheryl xxxxxxxxxxxxx

[Shane Drew]

quote Cheryl Tissington:

Cheryl xxxxxxxxxxxxx

:blush: Thanks Cheryl

My son took this picture today. Not my normal smiley self. The cast is driving me nuts 🙁

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[Derek Heron]

Great picture Shane The Guilty man. (where is your sling)

reminds me of an add we use to have on TV.

family having breakfast when a pipe bursts over the table

everybody runs around turning off taps stop cocks etc

the presenter says Well Done everybody.

they are all smiling happily pleased with themselves

then the presenter says.

WHAT A SHAME YOU LET IT HAPPEN IN THE FIRST PLACE

and they all drop their heads in shame.

Derek

[Shane Drew]

quote Derek Heron:

Great picture Shane The Guilty man. (where is your sling)

Derek

I hated the sling. Binned it when I got home from hospital. Made me feel like an invalid 😕

[Jayne Marsh]

You look like you could punch someone with that cast :lol1:
Seriously though, you should wear the sling as it helps keep the arm supported and the swelling down. I dislocated my shoulder a while back, the hospital duly put it back in place and sent me home with a sling. I thought seeing as the pain had eased that I could use my arm normally, it was only when I returned the hospital 2 days later that they told me the sling was there for a reason…….to stop my shoulder dropping out of place again (damaged muscles wont hold a dislocated shoulder in place) Needless to say I had my wrist slapped, got another sling and went home and behaved myself :lol1:

[Lorraine Clinch]

Don’t think shane would appreciate a slapped wrist right this moment! 😮 😕

[Shane Drew]

thanks ladies.

Jayne, I have been holding my arm up, as instructed, all the time. Not hard to do as it hurts like hell when I drop it down.

Sleeping with it above my head is bizaar tho, looking forward to getting it off so I get a decent sleep.

One more sleep and I hope the doc takes it off in the morning.

Got physio in the morning too. Not really looking forward to that tho 🙁

I’ll let you know how I go. 😕

[Adam McGuire]

Hi Shane,

I trust you are getting better? I’ve not been on the boards in a while because I have a whiplash injury from when someone crashed into my car back in March. It’s been agrevated by work! In particular, driving 100miles each way (miniumum) per day. Now I can’t even tie my shoe laces without a searing pain in my left shoulder 🙁

When you sleep with your hand up, do you wake up with a dead arm? I’ve woken up a couple of times recently with my arms above my head, and I can’t feel or move them! Scary experience!

Take care, hope you’re more or less back to normal soon!

Adam

[Shane Drew]

Adam, sorry to hear of your experience too. My wife and I had a whiplash injury after an idiot crossed into our lane and had a head on accident with us in ’88.

After years of treatment, we’ve both led pretty normal lives, altho the wife still has regular back and neck treatment to keep on top of things.

We didn’t drive 100 miles a day tho. Take care of yourself mate. Do whatever it takes to get better. My wife gets regular massages now to relieve the agrevation. Works for her. Accupuncture works for others. We tried everything until we found some relief.

As far as my injury goes I don’t wake up with a dead arm at all. Not sure why, might be because of the cast. In hospital they strung my plaster cast upto a roof hook. Must have been humorous to walk in and see me sleeping like that.

I’m out of the plaster cast today and into a plastic cast. Once they take the stiches out of my 3" cut on Thursday, I hope I’ll be more comfortable. I will be in traction of my wrist for at least another 4 weeks, and then my fingers will be in traction for 4 weeks after that.

8 weeks of hell as I see it! I’ll be broke by then I’d reckon.

Having to shower with a plastic bag over my arm for another 4 weeks is going to be no fun either 🙁

I know I shouldn’t be complaining, and ask that you lot forgive me, but I’m so damned frustrated at the moment.

I’ll get over it tho. Not sure how many beers it will take, but I’m willing to give it a go. :lol1:

[Hugh Potter]

blimey, only just spotted this, hope you get well sooon dude.
Hugh

btw, these 8 weks will sonn be long gone, you’ll only recall them when the next person doe sit, then it’ll be "ah yes.. i remember when i…. " lol !

[Shane Drew]

quote Hugh Potter:

these 8 weks will sonn be long gone, you’ll only recall them when the next person doe sit, then it’ll be “ah yes.. i remember when i…. ” lol !

:lol1: :lol1: thanks hugh, I’ll run this past the bank manager, see if he agrees :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

[Adam McGuire]

I’m currently undergoing physio twice a week, costing me a small fortune (£30 a session), but it’s worth it. My only problem now is that work is sending me silly distances nearly every day so it’s two steps forward and one back. Sometimes it’s even 3 steps back!

Adam

[Shane Drew]

not the best photo, but you get the idea 😕

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[Marcella Ross]

didn’t realise you lost 2 fingers too Shane 😉

[Peter Normington]

Shane, I would have thought you could cut in a straight line though? 😉

[Shane Drew]

quote Peter Normington:

Shane, I would have thought you could cut in a straight line though? 😉

I know what you say :lol1: I was a bit shocked initially when I saw it, but the Dr tells me the tendons had atrophied(?) in the 22 hours it took before I had surgery, and he had to go looking for them… thus the crooked scar 🙁

[George Elsmore]

thats a good ali g impression their Shane

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[Shane Drew]

:lol1: :lol1: nutter!

[Adam McGuire]

Just thought I’d ask how things are going Shane?

Regards
Adam

[Shane Drew]

Thanks for asking Adam.

Got out of my finger butterfly brace today actually.

Feels a bit weird because my finger is not playing the game properly, but much easier to work with a dodgy finger and no brace, than a brace and no use of my finger.

Its 10:30pm here, and I’ve been using it all day with little problems, hurting like hell now, but some pain killers, a good night sleep, and it’ll probably be good as new in the morning 😕 I hope.

The hand specialist tells me that I may have to go back into a brace in a week or so if it does not get better at movement, but I’ll do whatever excercises I need to do to prevent that happening I can tell you.

Take care mate, and thanks again

Cheers