Finger Fun! (contains Graphic Bloody Images)

Yukkk!
Fingers crossed for the big reveal tomorrow
Seriously, I hope it's all right. Yes, the throbbing starts on a delayed basis but subsides after a few days. I chopped the end of my left middle finger off about a year ago chopping vegetables, sliced straight down through the nail from the bed to the tip at a 30degree angle. Blood all over the carrots and SWMBO's a vegetarian. Fortunately I have some first aid training so between SWMBO and I we sorted it out, but I didn't take the dressing off for 72hrs whilst it clotted over. Your's is stitched, you'll be grand. Shite treatment at the A&E though, you really ought to pursue that with them.

 

As a teenager working for my father I got my finger stuck end on in the seed drill gears, split my finger from the tip to the 1st knuckle joint, no broken bone but you could see the bone in between the split "meat", as we only had about 2 hours left of a weeks work he said we'll just finish before we go home and then Mum would take me to the Doc, was working with Fertilizer so it stung like Feck, anyway we get to the doc's about 4 hrs later and he hit the roof, too late to sew it up apparently, wrapped it up in bandages and told me to redress it every night and look for infection. My finger is still an odd shape at the end and about once a month my finger nail splits long ways up the side and I have to rip the side off to stop it catching on everything. It has been 40 years and me Mum still gives Dad shit about it.

 

Shit, that looks sore! I'm sorry you didn't get effective treatment, but in my case I have little to complain about.
The top of my left index finger was degloved as a result of a side swipe by a SMIDSY.
The degloved section was still partially attached and so wasn't lost in my glove, although the nail was. The surgeon was able to reattach the finger tip (while another stuck a pin and a couple of plates in and down my left shin) although the distal phalanx had to be shortened and the nail bed now isn't quite straight. Four years on and the sensation in the finger tip is still not quite right (and probaby never will be) but at least it's there
(the last picture is 3 months after surgery).

 

Good stuff.
Temperature, or at least the sensation of, is definitely one of the weird aspects of such injuries. Mine was never a problem in that way but my partner, who chopped off the end of one of her fingers (not in sympathy with me ) by getting it trapped between a couple of large concrete plant pots she was moving around, really feels the cold in her reattached appendage, which has otherwise healed really well.

 

I have grown without wisdom teeth, and no sign of any coming now, I'm 52 y.o. Does that mean I am more highly evolved than most?

 

I only have one wisdom tooth so I'm twice as thick as you

 

My argument with a hacksaw looks rubbish in comparison! The nail left this world soon after, the cut was the same depth on the pad of my thumb too. Had to have an injection of something or other into the bone.

 

Yep!

 

I was at the gym today and found a hole in my trainer big enough to put my finger in.

She's pressing charges and they have banned me for life.

 

Looking better than it did