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worst palm related injury

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GREENHAND

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1.med palm thorn in the chin,

2 cidp thorn in the big toe.

3 washie frond hung in back then twisted around by the wind. similar to man called horse movie.

4 tripped over unknown palm in mexico while chasing iguana. after visiting swimup bar.

5 stepped on sago right in the middle barfooted at night,that one hurt the worst.

6 huge sabel tex fell on me while planting trapped under for few minutes.

7 more to come i am sure.

Pivi Mentor

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I got mediterranean palm torn in my had...

Also phoenix canariensis torn in my hand.

That's it as much as i remember.

Also injured my hand on agava.

island Vis, adriatic sea, Croatia. Zone 9b/10a

Temperature low last winter: -0.9°C/30.4 F

Temperature low this winter: -0.3°C/31.5 F

-Creating my own little palm heaven-

fastfeat Grand Master

fastfeat

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Nothing beats having an entire loose Washingtonia skirt come down on you when you're tied in.

Sadly, quite a few climbers have died from suffocating under the weight. :(

SoCal and SoFla; zone varies by location.

'Home is where the heart suitcase is'...

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"If, as they say, there truly is no rest for the wicked, how can the Devil's workshop be filled with idle hands?"

edbrown_3 Collaborator

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Washingtonia leaf in the eye.  I scratched the eye.  About 4 hours later in the middle of the night I woke up in shear agony. This was the year I tried an HMO. in the 80's

I returned to the Dr. 3 or 4 times.  Dr. was about worthless,  he kept acting like the reoccuring wound was self inflicted. --- Finally I went to an eye doctor out of my own pocket and got sufficient care so it would heal thoroughly.

I went through a episode with a Phoenix reclinata spine in the shoulder. They do not show up on X rays. I went back 3 or 4 times as the wound never healed Dr. s were better but about 3 months later the spin jumped out from the wound 2 " long.

I steal love the palms

Edwin Brown III

Tad Grand Master

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got the S#$%$T stung out of me by hordes of the most viscious fire ants I have ever encountered while robbing seed in Ixtapa Mexico.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

The way of the transgressor is hard

madagascarbob Rising Star

madagascarbob

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Cut the tip of my finger off with my hand clippers , The snap sound it made was almost worse than the pain !

feef706 Community Regular

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Med fan thorn to the nuckle and knew it was in there but it was dark out and it broke off under the skin.. couldnt bend my nuckle for about two weeks when it finally swelled up and I could finally see where it was.. I got a razor knife and sliced it open and it shot out, what relief that brought me... like I had a brand new hand... the thorn was about 3/8 of a inch long..

Fort Walton Beach, FL, USA

Zone 9a, 2 blocks from the Bay, 1.5 miles from the Gulf of Mexico

No where near frost free.. But hopefully someday when I move further south..

07/08 Extreme Low 24.9F

GREENHAND Mentor

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(edbrown_3 @ Feb. 08 2008,12:46)

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Washingtonia leaf in the eye.  I scratched the eye.  About 4 hours later in the middle of the night I woke up in shear agony. This was the year I tried an HMO. in the 80's

I returned to the Dr. 3 or 4 times.  Dr. was about worthless,  he kept acting like the reoccuring wound was self inflicted. --- Finally I went to an eye doctor out of my own pocket and got sufficient care so it would heal thoroughly.

I went through a episode with a Phoenix reclinata spine in the shoulder. They do not show up on X rays. I went back 3 or 4 times as the wound never healed Dr. s were better but about 3 months later the spin jumped out from the wound 2 " long.

I steal love the palms

mine seem whimpy compared to that! it took two weeks to get cidp thorn from my toe witch was twice its regular size.

GREENHAND Mentor

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(madagascarbob @ Feb. 08 2008,12:53)

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Cut the tip of my finger off with my hand clippers , The snap sound it made was almost worse than the pain !

did they sew it back on, hope it wasent your flippin off finger.

fastfeat Grand Master

fastfeat

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(palmotrafficante @ Feb. 08 2008,12:48)

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got the S#$%$T stung out of me by hordes of the most viscious fire ants I have ever encountered while robbing seed in Ixtapa Mexico.

Fire ants are tougher than Federales! :P

SoCal and SoFla; zone varies by location.

'Home is where the heart suitcase is'...

_____

"If, as they say, there truly is no rest for the wicked, how can the Devil's workshop be filled with idle hands?"

feef706 Community Regular

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Its funny how the thorns shoot out later on.. And wow what a relief it is

Fort Walton Beach, FL, USA

Zone 9a, 2 blocks from the Bay, 1.5 miles from the Gulf of Mexico

No where near frost free.. But hopefully someday when I move further south..

07/08 Extreme Low 24.9F

madagascarbob Rising Star

madagascarbob

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(GREENHAND @ Feb. 08 2008,13:06)

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(madagascarbob @ Feb. 08 2008,12:53)

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Cut the tip of my finger off with my hand clippers , The snap sound it made was almost worse than the pain !

did they sew it back on, hope it wasent your flippin off finger.

It was  just the tip didnt even catch the nail,seems like it grew back ,it doesnt look any different .

Dave-Vero Grand Master

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Butia capitata leaflet tip in the left ear.  Punctured the eardrum.

Fla. climate center: 100-119 days>85 F
USDA 1990 hardiness zone 9B
Current USDA hardiness zone 10a
4 km inland from Indian River; 27º N (equivalent to Brisbane)

Central Orlando's urban heat island may be warmer than us

amazondk Grand Master

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I guess I have been lucky.  The worst I can remember was stepping on Astrocaryum throns while hiking in the forest with rubber sandles on.    I got some jungle boots after that.

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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I have been both careful and lucky.

To me:

Little livistona spines in the fingers, can't remove and you end up with lumpy finger syndrome.

A poke in the eye -HARD! -- with a Rhopie baueri spear as I leaned downward.  Nasty bloodshot eyes.

Other people:

Matt in SD with a Phoenix spine somewhere (anywhere sucks, I'm sure he'll chime in);

The window washer in San Bernardino who fell from his catwalk -- 9 floors up -- and, instead of landing to death on the sidewalk, found himself alive but hideously impaled in a CIDP.

OUCH!  

I get the willies thinking about either.  I'm wimpy and proud of it!

dave

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(Dave from So-Cal @ Feb. 08 2008,15:41)

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I have been both careful and lucky.

To me:

Little livistona spines in the fingers, can't remove and you end up with lumpy finger syndrome.

A poke in the eye -HARD! -- with a Rhopie baueri spear as I leaned downward.  Nasty bloodshot eyes.

Other people:

Matt in SD with a Phoenix spine somewhere (anywhere sucks, I'm sure he'll chime in);

The window washer in San Bernardino who fell from his catwalk -- 9 floors up -- and, instead of landing to death on the sidewalk, found himself alive but hideously impaled in a CIDP.

OUCH!  

I get the willies thinking about either.  I'm wimpy and proud of it!

dave

The window washer is lucky, hmmm I THINK!!

paulgila Grand Master

paulgila

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worst palm-related injury:falling off my chair lauhging at

one of mattyb's snarky comments on palmtalk.good thing there was carpeting or it coulda been a lot worse.

the "prince of snarkness."

 

still "warning-free."

 

san diego,california,left coast.

GREENHAND Mentor

GREENHAND

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(pohonkelapa @ Feb. 08 2008,15:48)

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worst palm-related injury:falling off my chair lauhging at

one of mattyb's snarky comments on palmtalk.good thing there was carpeting or it coulda been a lot worse.

Yes the one that crackes me up is the famous VALTREX  thread, now i use it on all my disgusing body parts. :cool:

Matt in SD Veteran

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I had a feeling Dave would remember my Phoenix reobelinii thorn incident.  I think I posted when it happened then again when a thread like this came up a couple years ago.  

I was cutting down a giant bird of paradise that was right next to the pigmy date.  The BOP trunk started to fall on the power line (I think I later realized it was just the phone line) and I jumped around to stop it.  My arm went full force into the pigmy date and all of a sudden my hand wasn't working.  There was a lump in the skin of my forearm and then a little puncture wound about an inch away.  The spine had gone in and shifted the skin as it went, then lodged in the bone, broke off, and the sking went back to it's normal position.  So with my one working hand I had to get the BOP safely down, and then I waited for my wife to get home cause I didn't want her to wonder where I was.

At the emergency room, it took the doctor about 30 minutes to get the spine out after cutting a hole.  The broken end was under a couple layers of muscle that had to be pushed aside to get to it, then it was stuck in the bone so hard he went through several tools before finding one that could grip it hard enough.  Basically used a pair of pliers in the end and had to pull really hard.  Sure felt nice once it was out and my hand worked fine right away.  The spine was about 1 1/2 cm long.

Honestly I would take this all over again before getting a thorn in the eye.   It makes for a good story, but it really was not that bad, and it stopped hurting the second they got it out.

Matt

San Diego

0.6 Acres of a south facing, gently sloped dirt pile, soon to be impenetrable jungle

East of Mount Soledad, in the biggest cold sink in San Diego County.

Zone 10a (I hope), Sunset 24

osideterry Grand Master

osideterry

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No order:

Cut into my finger with an electric hedge trimmer, while clearing "disney" that was overgrowing a palm trunk.

Climbing a garden wall, I slipped and cut my shin almost to the bone on the edge of a legacy block. Still have nice scar.

Digging up a 3ft tall pygmy triple took over 2 hours, and I pulled a groin muscle that hurt for 6 months.

Thank God I have no Phoenix or Livistona stories to share.

Zone 9b/10a, Sunset Zone 22

7 miles inland. Elevation 120ft (37m)

Average annual low temp: 30F (-1C)

Average annual rainfall: 8" (20cm)

GREENHAND Mentor

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(Kai @ Feb. 08 2008,16:25)

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I got some blisters on my thumb and fingers from scrubbing the fruit of some Hyphaene thebaica seeds...

No blood involved anyway...  :D

There goes the old hitchicking thumb :D

palmsrgreat Experienced

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I had a CIDP thorn go about 1" into my temple as I was bending down pruning an older frond. As I backed up my agave stabbed me in the shoulder. I now prune all my agave tips.

The most painful was when a randomn CIDP thorn which must have been pruned at an earlier date, shot through my sandal and went about 2" into my skin b/w the toes! Yeeyow!!!!

DoomsDave Grand Master

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Matt!

Glad it resolved!

GADZOOKS, just reading that gives the willies.

Nota bene, everyone, Matt's was an accident, and not what I'd call a dumb one.

I plan every move around a phoenix with great care . . . .

I'm going to be removing some this year, sigh.

Let's keep our forum fun and friendly.

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