Do diferent jobs make you more tolerant to pain or safety?

[blumoonrisen]

How did you know it was there for a year . Did it have a date on it ;>

I got it carbon dated.
I remember when it happened taking a window frame out, bit of glass was still in the rebate and it stuck into my palm and gave me a nasty cut. For ages afterwards I kept getting a sharp pain if I carried bags etc, didn't know there was glass in there till a year later when it emerged. Quite a big bit too, bout a 5mm triangle shape.

 

[pride in battle]

Yeah as a joiner I see injuries as part of the job, I'd have to sever an artery or lose a finger before I'd go to hospital.
Shrugged this off last year..
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Just a chainsaw inflicted flesh wound..

Ouch !! Is that your hand ?

 

[blumoonrisen]

Ouch !! Is that your hand ?

Yep, I foolishly let my son have a go of my chainsaw while I held the log. Could've been a lot worse..!
Its healed ok, obv scarred.
No way was I going to hospital, as I knew I hadn't done an artery or tendon.

 

[J.G.Blue.]

After 40 years in the building trade & 50 years riding a motorbike I consider myself very lucky to still be in one piece & reasonably healthy :-)
(although I still scream like a little girl if wasps get to close!)

 

[stonerblue]

Just mentioned it on my gilet thread but being a chef the old asbestos finger guff rings true.

I have been sliced, skewered, burnt, steamed etc hundreds of time in the last 30 years and my tolerance to heat and cold (stock taking/preping in freezees for up to an hr at a time) seems to be more than those not in that trade, even today I picked up a heated plate like nowt gave it to the customer who bearly dropped it as too hot

also I have worked with people who needed to walk the edges of buildings or hang off balconies unharnessed.

So does your job change your tollerance/adaptability to thing others would feel pain/fear doing

This morning i have stuck a tiny screwdriver in my finger, small cut in my thumb and scoured my knuckles on 80 grit band scourer. Standard stuff for me and didnt hurt one bit.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

what was your mrs doing with a splinter in her finger, they are your mrs hands aren't they ?

Either that or a lace maker from Nottingham