Originally Posted by nhweaver
Well, today I did something that I have never did in my 5 decades of sewing, i was feeding a strip of quilting in my janome, needle down, and sneezed. my pointer finger on my right hand went right under the foot and sewed! I yanked my finger out, needle down, broke the needle, ouch. DH pulled two pieces of the needle out of my finger. Emergecny room cost big bucks with my insurance, tomorrow I am going to my doc for a tetanus shot and pain pills. it is a thumping. I did not bleed on the strip though, typing is hard. I went back and finished the strips, cannot iron. Did anyone ever do this? any infection? how long to heal??
I did that when I was a little girl. I was smart enough to know not to pull it out. I called for my mom, (she was a nurse) who very calmly turn the flywheel till the needle came up and out came my finger with a hole through the fingernail and all the way through the finger, not one drop of blood. But it sure was sore for a while. It still makes me cringe. Hope you heal fast.