Jordanelle Report .. Emergency Room

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Ouch! Looks familiar. The funniest hooking mishap I ever saw was my dad driving home with a jitterbug hanging from the lobe of his ear. An errant backcast by one of us kids sent him to the emergency room. Two years ago, a wiper drove a treble into the tip of my middle finger. It was so deep, none of the self removal techiques would work. Trouble was, it was Sat. evening and the only medical facility open was the emergency room. A hook in the finger is way down the triage list on a Sat. night. I sat there for three hours before I saw a doctor. Once the novocaine shot took effect it was a simple procedure to push the point past the barb, clip it off and back the hook out. The doc, who was a fisherman, said it was one of the worst self-hook jobs he had seen. Adding insult to injury, the bill came to over $900. My insurance company hounded me for months asking for a clear explanation of what happend. I guess they didn't know the power of a pissed-off wiper.
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