Well Tuesday night I had a customer call me with a deer. His daughter shot her fist buck. A small 3 point and wanted a shoulder mount done and the back 1/2 tanned.
I knew from talking to him tuesday that she had shot it in the shoulder and busted the leg. When they were caping it out he was afraid of doing damage to the cape so he tubed the deer leaving the damaged shoulder in the cape, LOL. I told him no big deal I will pull it when you get here and you can take it back home with you.
So Wednesday evening (7:45pm) when him and his daughted brought it to the shop I got it all checked it and they picked out the pose. I got my scaple out and was showing them how and where to cut the leg when caping to free up the cape. Got the first leg opened up and was just getting done with the second one when it happened!
The scaple slipped and the blade went into my stomach. It took a second to register at first. When I looked down and the blade hadn't just fallen out. I ended up having to pull it out. I looked up at the guy and said
"I just stabbed myself".
He looks at me and laughs and say "what?", "How bad?".
I think he thought I was joking or had just cut myself.
I said, "I don't know, bad enought that the blade didn't fall out" I think I am going to have to put your deer in the freezer for now and go into the ER and get checked out.
He comes around the table and says. Hold on let me see it may not be that bad. So I lift my shirt enough fo him to loo at it and all he says is it doesn't look good.
I havn't been to the ER since moving to Wa so I had no clue where a hospital was. After a few minuted of discussing a location I remember that one of the neighbors in a nurse. So I lock up the house and the shop and drive over to the nurses house. She looks at it and than says she is driving my to the ER.
We get to the Er and go through all their BS paperwork. I get a room and to Doc on call comes in and says "You have got to be kidding me?" "You stabbed yourself skinning a deer?" Well lets have a look at it. He looks at it and says well it's at an angle. It's deep but be glad it was at an angle and you didn't go deep enough to hit a gut but we are going to flush it and staple the hole closed. With out numbing it!
As I was leaving he told me to enjoy the deer meat. I said I won't be enjoying it because it is't mind. I am going out in the morning to try and fill my tag. He pretty much told me not the best idea I ever had and no hunting for a week. So didn't go hunting that morning I went out that evening.
When I got home around 11pm that night I went back to the shop and pulled the Deer head out of the freezer and finnished puling the shoulder, caping the head, fleashing, splitting, and salting the cape. I dont like to freeze entire heads if I don't have to.
