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Great news. It looks like Allan and I are dolng rehab together. Which hand was it?Allan, I am now getting sponged in the bath by my lovely wife Eril. 
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Right hand, good thing stubbies come in left and right handed bottles.
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Werezy go"n to recouperate?I know a good, quiet spot.
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Thats great news !!!Having smashed my fingers on my right hand some time ago and having then carefully put back together again by a top surgeon, and the months of re hab needed to get them working again, I can appreciate the inconvenience and discomfort Allan is going through !!It is amazing how well you learn to use the left hand !
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Very sorry to hear the news Allan.
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Hmmm,Man beats propeller... Can we add that to Waddles long list of talents?Glad to hear it went well so far... it might take about 6 months for near 99% recovery. No doubt with Allan being a skillful and willful man, things will happen quicker.Cheers,Nic.
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The trouble is our brains do not click in when something like a spinning prop. is invisible. It"s easy to do.Get well and get back in the sky!
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Allan how"s the hand coming along?
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Allan doesn"t get on the forum much so I"ll tell you what I know.He goes in tomorrow to get the stainless steel wires out of the fingers, these are there to keep them from moving while everything heals up. Maybe he can keep them when they take them out and use it to lock wire his prop bolts next time.We are all going for a fly on Saturday and have arranged for a First Officer to fly with Allan as backup, this saves him having to move the throttle forward with his teeth.As a side note you will be all pleased to know my Border Collie, Leo, has so far had no ill effects from ingesting part of Allan just after the accident. This part was of no further use and even tho I followed Leo around with a bucket the next day I could not recover said "part".Allan and Leo now have a special bond,sort of like blood brothers. ;D
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Murray!Not nice...Nic.
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But every word true Nic.When the wires come out he will know how much movement he will have in the finger"s , I will get an update Friday.Dogs will eat whatever is lying around,especially tasty bite-size morsels.
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There"s an old joke about the fella who cuts his fingers off in his prop, rushes to the doctor who asks him where his fingers were and why didn"t he bring them with him in a bag of ice etc to be sewn back on ...... only to be told by the fella (lets call him Allan
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Crumbs Murray, its enough to churn your guts, I don"t envy being Allan every time he sees your dog, especially if Leo starts slobbering and licking his chops... Might be like Captain Hook of Peter Pan fame - tick tock.. or as the case may be - trick prop. Ack, now I"m joining in, sorry Allan - Murray is a bad influence, no, I won"t associate with him in future...I think we will now write it into ASRA operations that *no dogs* will be allowed anywhere near an aircraft in any instance due to this fact, I don"t know what part Allan is joined to in blood with Leo but I would be really p*ssed off with the prospect of having a salvageable digit lost down some mutts gullet. I could imagine due to the opportunistic nature of dogs that it some poor bloke gets knocked unconcious with open injuries that his condition would not be helped with the addition of some dog ripping into him for some "tasty morsels".To this end I propose an ammendment to our ops manuals that no dogs shall be allowed near gyrocopters or indeed on a premises for the operations or maintenance of aircraft of any sort at all.Additionally, though I doubt it would be covered by it - issue an AD [of sorts] or a mandate a standard operating procedure [SOP] that bans dogs from aircraft related venues, on the basis of them being either a distractor or destructor.Anybody care to comment?Nic.
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Hang on Nic it wasn"t the dogs fault. Leo is very Gyro savvy and never goes near anything that is running or even just with the blades slowly turning. He just happened to be walking around afterwards and found a small bit that we didn"t.Leo belongs to the owner of the hanger so its extremely unlikely he will banned.What I will be doing however is ban anyone going near any running engine who is not strapped into the seat of that machine.
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Nic,are your comments set with a bait to **** Murray off?? ;D
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