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James Cornell is a woodworker. He makes furniture out of reclaimed wood like boards from old houses, sells it on

Etsy. He does pretty well. He's got a big shop of his own. Business grows every

year, but he can't afford health insurance.

This story happened a few years ago.

So that day I was making picture frames.

I was ripping boards down the table saw

and made the last rip, turned off the table saw and made the last rip turned off the table saw and for whatever reason

just looked away from the blade for a minute as I reached my hand in to grab the off cut

and put my hand in the still spinning blade.

So fortunately for me, since the power was off,

once the blade hit the bone, it pretty much kind of stopped the

blade so it didn't go all the way through the finger but it was a pretty

gnarly pretty gnarly situation you You were here by yourself? Yeah, yeah, here by myself. So, uh, screamed for about 10 seconds. It didn't feel anything just, but knew what happened. And then ran to a shop neighbor leaving just like a

trail of blood on the way over to him. They got me bandaged up and and took me over to the urgent care because I know going to an emergency

room is going to be just an obscene of Montemone.

But the dock at Urgent Care, looks at Jim's finger and says,

no, I'm not the guy for this.

He feels like, they're probably going to have to amputate it.

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