Doesn't look like I'll be driving my Solstice anytime soon, and it has nothin' to do with GM and their slow delivery system. I do not expect it before mid November, but if It came in today, the best I could do would be t get my wife to chauffeur me around in it.
Last Sunday night I took a slight tumble that should left me with mere scrapes. Unfortunately for me my wrist took the full brunt of the fall. Had I broken my wrist, I would have been very lucky. As you see from the title of this thread, no broken bones. I landed on a sharp metal edge which severed both arteries in the wrist, the nerve that supplies feeling to the palm and finger tips, and all the flexor tendons to my right(say it with me, "manual transmission") hand.
My first thought while watching the blood flow out of wound was, "I don't think I'll be able to shift gears with that thing." My perspective has changed a little in the 5 days since the fall. I know it could have been worse. With two open arteries it would have been easy to bleed out. Without blood flow to the hand I could have lost it altogether. Maybe some see it as "lucky" that the worse case scenarios didn't happen. Me? Well, I've always been "the glass is half empty" kinda guy. :lol: Anyway before I get into to much of a self pity rant, I just want to say, everyone who has their cars enjoy the crap out of 'em and those that don't, quit complaining they'll get here. In the end that little beauty called Solstice is still just a car. Be happy ya got all the body parts drive one.
Oh yeah. The Doc says it may take a year or more to have functioning hand. I should have written this yesterday it was a "the glass is half full" day.
P.S. Please reserve all pity for my wife. After all she's the one who is going to have to put up with a "one-handed" SOB for the better part of the coming year. :lol:
Last Sunday night I took a slight tumble that should left me with mere scrapes. Unfortunately for me my wrist took the full brunt of the fall. Had I broken my wrist, I would have been very lucky. As you see from the title of this thread, no broken bones. I landed on a sharp metal edge which severed both arteries in the wrist, the nerve that supplies feeling to the palm and finger tips, and all the flexor tendons to my right(say it with me, "manual transmission") hand.
My first thought while watching the blood flow out of wound was, "I don't think I'll be able to shift gears with that thing." My perspective has changed a little in the 5 days since the fall. I know it could have been worse. With two open arteries it would have been easy to bleed out. Without blood flow to the hand I could have lost it altogether. Maybe some see it as "lucky" that the worse case scenarios didn't happen. Me? Well, I've always been "the glass is half empty" kinda guy. :lol: Anyway before I get into to much of a self pity rant, I just want to say, everyone who has their cars enjoy the crap out of 'em and those that don't, quit complaining they'll get here. In the end that little beauty called Solstice is still just a car. Be happy ya got all the body parts drive one.
Oh yeah. The Doc says it may take a year or more to have functioning hand. I should have written this yesterday it was a "the glass is half full" day.
P.S. Please reserve all pity for my wife. After all she's the one who is going to have to put up with a "one-handed" SOB for the better part of the coming year. :lol: