G'day Ken, can you give me an email, don't think mine are getting through to you, unless they have gone into the spam bin.

Myles,
That old derelict's e-mail is [[email protected]].

Myles -
kpres375@aol.com

Ken,
You are going to take all of the fun out of it if you do not call me some derogatory name in reply. How is the finger doing?

All considered the finger is better than I thought it would be. About two weeks before the show in Charlotte I forced a piece of graphite/fiberglas under my finger tip while putting on a tip top - through pure carelessness. I had trimmed a rod tip and was pushing a tip top in place. A thin shard of the material separated from the tip and I pushed it into my finger tip. I took out what I thought was all of it (wrong). Two days before Charlotte I went to a GP who took a look and found another piece. Two weeks ago I dropped a book on my finger tip which apparently drove a remaining splinter deeper into the finger. So, back to the GP - who looked, nodded, hummed and sent me to see a surgeon - who sent me for x-rays... who sent me to a hand
surgeon (by that time I had discomfort in the first and second joints of that finger and the knuckle in the palm of hand ... long story now shortened I had a minor operation today to remove the foreign body along with some adjacent tissue and I'm hoping that it's all out. Stitches come out next Friday - but I should be up and running by Wednesday. Funny thing about graphite and fiberglas is that it is "neutral" according to your body chemistry - seldom do you get any resultant infection as you would with a wood splinter. Therefore you tend to overlook it --- which I've found now is a very bad idea as it also tends to work itself deeper unlike a wood splinter which can be ejected or lifted toward the skin surface.

I hope it heals proper this time, Ken. Sounds like the fiberglass shards work like a porcupine needle.

Putter
Williston, ND