The Hand

Well today was pretty fun at work. My co-worker who sits behind me had a dismemberment claim. A guy was moving a washing machine or something and somehow it fell on his hand dismembering it. I don't know all the details of the claim but I think we had originally denied his claim because the way his hand was severed did not meet the definition of "loss of member" in the policy. The claimant appealed it and when he did included color pictures of his hand, yes, just the hand by itself. He also included 2 color pictures of his arm and wrist with no hand attached - 2 different angles. My co-worker was told by one of our nurses the photos where in the file and she wanted nothing to do with them. She did not want to see them and was pretty addimant about it. I over heard the conversation and immediately requested to see them! How cool! It looked like something out of a gory movie ! Very cool, actually. I came up with the idea for Halloween bringing in a fake hand and putting on my co-workers desk. I immediately thought of The Adams Family with "The Hand". I remembered an old black and white movie, something about a hand that goes and attacks people, killing them. It went on and on. Pretty soon I was emailing hand pictures to 2 other co-workers that got as much of a kick out of the whole situation as I had. I told everyone to bring in a "hand on a stick" tomorrow, or those plastic clappers! I was having a ball with the whole situation...you gotta laugh, right?! Well, no, because my co-worker handling this claim has no sense of humor. You cannot tease her or give her a hard time. She doesn't know how to laugh at herself. How sad to take things so seriously. Me? I had a great day. I hope nobody reads this and has lost a hand or something...