Custom made furniture

It was a regular Sunday morning in Baltimore, Maryland, when my Uncle Jim was carrying out his usual Sunday routine. He woke up, read the newspaper, made some breakfast and went his woodshop to begin working on making another peice of furniture. My uncle is naturally artistic, but making wood custom furniture was a specific hobby of his. He had had years of experience, and sometimes was even requested to make special pieces for people. He would even display some of his work in his cousins antique shop, which he lived above.

Even with his years of experience, not even he could forsee the event that was about to occur that day in the woodshop. A regular customer of his cousins antique shop had specially requested him to assemble a dining room table. He began by setting up his workspace as he usually did. He set up the wood on the saw table and went to grab his Craftsman tablesaw. He turned the saw on and started to saw the wood. All the sudden, the saw must of hit a knot in the wood and the saw kicked back. The wood pulled in so quickly that as his hand was guiding it in, the momentum pulled it in and caught his hand. The next thing he knew his thumb was dangling off of his hand, nearly completely severing it off. He immediatly wrapped it up himself and being stubborn, drove himself to the hospital.

By the time he arrived at the hospital, he had almost passed out in the waiting room from losing so much blood. The hospital had to bring a special hand surgeon from a fellow hospital. The surgeon took a skin graft from my uncles chest to sew the missing part of his thumb back on to his hand. From there, they had to cut a square peice of skin from his side and stick his thumb in it. They had to put the flap over the thumb and bandage his whole arm to keep it flat against his skin so that the graft would take on his thumb. A couple weeks later, the skin graft took and his thumb was left permanetly numb, but still has complete function. Three months later he continued to use that same saw and the lady finally got her dining room table!!