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Happy to hear that your recovery is going well. Continued best wishes to your healing foot. Also good to hear that the pcr is staying with you.
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Dang !
I thought it was bad when, a quick draw with live ammo
left a smoking hole in the ground alongside my right foot.
Getting rid of it would be like not marrying a great looking woman because the first date went bad.
Hey, I'm an INFJ. Most people like me who spent their life in Air Force Intelligence are the same or similar.
Wow, what a wake-up call. Presumably you've been handling firearms for years and things can still happen. Sometimes we get complacent. Well, it could've been a lot worse and your recovery appears to be coming right along. Over the past several decades, I've never kept a loaded gun in a safe for obvious reasons. It's easy enough to forget, especially when you have many guns. Having said this, only within the past couple of weeks have I stored a .38 Super loaded in a safe. I'm going to go right now and unload it. My excuse, I bought a new paddle holster for carry and I was trying it out, just decided to stick the whole rig back in the safe. I'm going back to my long standing practice of no loaded guns in a safe. Thanks for the reminder.
One of the best movies EVER. The only other time I've ever been shot was when I was nine years old back in Arkansas and my friend shot me with a .22 pellet out of a Benjamin Pump air rifle he'd gotten for Christmas. It didn't put my eye out, but it did bury itself up to the rim of the pellet on the right side of my chest. I and my buddies all decided to dig it out with a Boy Scout knife rather than tell our parents what really happened. I had to manage to not be seen without a shirt for almost a month so that it would heal up enough to just look like a mosquito bite I'd scratched open.I was going to get you a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas but.....
You'll shoot your eye out!
Glad you're healing up!
I started the original post maybe three times before I got up enough guts to write it up and post it. In the end, though, it actually helped me process the whole episode in a more positive manner. I have a lot of experience evaluating and working with people with trauma histories, so I knew at a cognitive level that I needed to really work on it before it worked on me. It wasn't the injury I caused to myself that's the problem. It's the injury I COULD have caused myself. Putting my thoughts down so early (the day after it happened) really helped, I think. I haven't had any problems with anxiety or other related issues. I'm actually amazed the original post came out as well as it did, since I was pretty stoned from all the anesthesia and the pain meds I was on the four days I was in the hospital.I admire you for being able to post about this. Many people would not want to confess to being careless with their firearms. It's easy to become complacent when handling firearms. This serves as a good lesson for the rest of us to always observe the 4 rules. Thank you for sharing your experience with us.
I'm stealing this for my Facebook page. Ha!An ancient Irish proverb...................'Ná déan aon ní nach mian leat paraimicí a fheiceáil.'
Means 'Never do anything you would not want a paramedic to see.'
All the guns in my safe are loaded. Even if they don't have cartridges or magazines in them.Wow, what a wake-up call. Presumably you've been handling firearms for years and things can still happen. Sometimes we get complacent. Well, it could've been a lot worse and your recovery appears to be coming right along. Over the past several decades, I've never kept a loaded gun in a safe for obvious reasons. It's easy enough to forget, especially when you have many guns. Having said this, only within the past couple of weeks have I stored a .38 Super loaded in a safe. I'm going to go right now and unload it. My excuse, I bought a new paddle holster for carry and I was trying it out, just decided to stick the whole rig back in the safe. I'm going back to my long standing practice of no loaded guns in a safe. Thanks for the reminder.
Thanks. Where do you live in Texas? I was stationed out in San Angelo for about five years back in the mid-80s. And I went to grad school at Texas A&M in College Station after I retired from the Air Force. My wife's folks still live outside of Caldwell on a 480-acre ranch. We make it back there at least once a year, so if you're anywhere nearby let me know. I'd love to meet somebody who almost cried over my wound pictures.I like to think of myself as a manly man, but when I saw your wound photos I almost cried.
Glad you're doing so much better.
Merry Christmas!
I suggested that he name his big toe, "Uncle Fester" in the original thread..... too soon?