Post # 1
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Bumble bee
I just phoned my dad to tell him some useless trivia which I thought would amuse me. He then asked if I wanted to hear about his day. He was retiling the front porch (he’s very handy and does lots of DIY, so this in itself was not big news). He then managed to cut himself on a broken tile, in what he describes as a “big smiley face shaped gash”, nick an artery in his wrist and have to be rushed to hospital. He was taken into the local hospital, where they took off the makeshift bandage my brother made from a teatowel, spurted blood everywhere and they decided that they didn’t have the facilities to deal with him so rushed him to the bigger hospital 15 miles away. He’s now been stitched and bandaged up and spent all afternoon on morphine and gas and air.
*sigh*. This is the same man who managed to put a chainsaw through his foot when I was about 10. It’s no wonder I’m such a klutz really! I had been planning on going to visit this weekend but didn’t and now feel really guilty about it! Silly silly Dad…
Post # 3
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Buzzing bee
sounds like something my dad would do. i remember when i was little watching my dad cut brances of a large tree down with a chainsaw whilst up a ladder, then all of a sudden hear my dad yell out as he fell from the ladder. luckily he managed to chuck the chainsaw away from him as he fell. silly dads
Post # 4
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Bumble bee
- Wedding: May 2013 - Walt Disney World
Oh wow!! I think it’s time for Dad to put up his hammer! Thank goodness he will be okay!
Post # 5
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Blushing bee
Oh my! I hope that he is feeling better soon. I always tell my Darling Husband that this will be him someday. He makes me nervous because he is totally the “act now and think later” type!
Post # 6
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Worker bee
My dad isn’t a klutz, but he IS a mechanic. And his favorite story to tell is how when he and my mom had been dating about two years she was an assistant in a medical office and he came in one day with a screwdriver THROUGH HIS HAND and she fainted. He also got a chain embedded in his forehead once… the man is one giant injury and he just blows it off lol
Post # 7
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Bumble bee
@SoonToBeMrsRiley: My dad’s just like that! To be honest, he’s not actually too clumsy, but when he does do something it just has to be something that either leaves him concussed for days afterwards, damages his back so badly that he’s lying on the floor for a month or he loses so much blood that it’s actually pretty concerning. But, he shrugs it off, cleans himself up and just goes back to what he was doing before. He’s more pissed off that the floor won’t be tiled for several weeks than about the fact that he lost a couple of pints of blood 
And when he cut his foot, it was that he’d ruined his shoes…
Post # 8
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Bumble bee
@Miss Country Chick: I’m sure he’ll be fine. My brothers managed to sort him out quickly enough so he got to the hospital pretty quickly. Fingers crossed your hubby’s less accident prone!
@prisigtr: Yup! There’s no way he’ll give it up though – I’ve no idea what he’d do with himself if he wasn’t always doing stuff around the home.
@ChocolateLime: Eek, that sounds really scary! Thank goodness he managed to throw it the other way. Apparently, when he was in hospital after the chainsaw incident, the nurse asked him whether the chainsaw had been clean when he cut himself…
Post # 9
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Sugar bee
Silly dads! Somehow my dad managed to cut off the tip of his finger when the lawnmower (the push kind) got clogged and he reached down to pull a chunk of grass out of the way. Annnd… then there’s the imfamous toilet seat repair incident. To this day, I don’t know how he managed to install a new seat but leave it loose enough that it sent anyone who sat on it flying off to one side. Oh, fun times, Silly Dad, fun times. I miss him so much!!
Post # 10
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Bumble bee
@jjmomma: Oh my goodness, my grandfather did exactly that same thing with the lawnmower and lost one of the fingers on his left hand!
Post # 11
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Sugar bee
This reminds me of my grandfather. When he was in a nursing home after his fourth stroke the nurses spent some time trying to figure out what kind of accident would amputate both of his thumbs and some toes. We had to explain that he self amputated those limbs in three separate accidents. You’d think after the first thumb got stuck in a teletype machine after the war he would have been more careful, but that didn’t stop him from getting the second stuck in a car transmission and running the lawn mower over his foot. My mom still tells the story of having to go find his thumb under the car before they went to the hospital. Papa also got hit by a car, struck by lightning, fell off the roof, crashed a motorcycle ect ect. I blame his genes for my clumsiness often.
Post # 12
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Worker bee
@clumsylawyer: YES! My dad cannot admit he has a back problem until he’s in bed for 3 days lol
Post # 13
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Buzzing Beekeeper
- Wedding: August 2013 - Rocky Mountains USA
I’m glad he’s ok! This sounds sooo much like my dad. His accidents include using a lawn aerator to “aerate” (aka punch a hole in) his palm, and running right into a broken jagged guardrail while jogging that required 150 stitches all through his leg muscles. My Fiance is always laughing at how I’m constantly running into the coffee table, but it could be so much worse!
Post # 14
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Buzzing Beekeeper
My father once put a drill press through the meaty part of his thumb and forefinger. I remember distinctly… I was very young (3-4ish) and he looked down at it, then wrapped it in a greasy towel.
He never went to the hospital and it healed up fine. He also hit his thumb with a hammer and then drilled a hole in his finger nail to release the blood underneath.
My dad is kind of a badass.
Post # 15
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Sugar bee
@Hyperventilate: I had to turn my head when a friend drilled a hole in his nail!! I was so sure he’d get a raging infection, but no… of course, it was okay.
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