by request... my PINKIE!

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donga666

Guest
Originally posted by E-Arkham
Sorry it\'s shiny

Well, you know an even spraying of Testor\'s Dullcoat will take that shine right out. :D

Kep

lol

It can happen to the best of us! At my place of work there it a carpenter that has been a carpenter all his working life. He was about 6 months away from retirement and he lost concentration for a second while using a circular-saw. And zip! It removed the ends of three fingers on his left hand. Vern had been using tools like this day-in-day-out for 40 odd years, without a wound!

Let that be a lesson for us all, it don\'t take much to ruin your day:(

Itchy: Good luck with the recovery! Ouch! Thanks for sharing your \'wound\' with us! We are a grim lot!!!;)
 

mickc22

Granddad!
My mate did almost the exact same thing, except it was his middle finger, he was using a vertical panel saw cutting work tops to length. He can no longer bend it either, so now he can \'give the finger\' without even trying :D
 

Itchy

New member
Nope, no leeches. It actually didn\'t bleed AT ALL when it happened. Crazy huh? And no more bending my finger in that joint. It\'ll be in the extended position for the rest of my life (or untill it gets caught in another machine and taken off :rolleyes: )

The saw went through the top of the pinkie through skin, the extender tendon, both bones & cartilage, flexer tendon (in that order). So it was literally just hanging on by a piece of skin (with the nerve and a blood vessel in the layer of skin). So... no blood and i could feel my pinkie! Felt like the tip was asleep and just kept flopping over. Oh, and the first thing i saw of the wound was the ends of both bones. It was all white... bone was white, flesh was white, skin was white. No pink, no blood, nothing looking like meat. It was pretty crazy.

Sorry for everyone\'s stomach i upsetted. Not my intent, just been getting a lot of requests to see the pinkie so i figured i\'d better give the people what they want.lol
 

freakinacage

Well-known member
Originally posted by Itchy
Nope, no leeches. It actually didn\'t bleed AT ALL when it happened. Crazy huh?

actually severe trauma like that often makes the blood vessels spasm to avoid excessive blood loss, clean cuts always bleed more. anyway enough of the technical talk - thanks for posting that! looks painfull - hope you don\'t do it again
 

Itchy

New member
@reverend: Actually... that\'s just wet dead skin. They had me on heavy duty antibiotics so it didn\'t get infected... if it had gotten infected, the bone would have gotten infected, then amputations would have follows:eek:
 

marineboy

New member
just saw this thread for the first time...

that\'s a serious one for sure....

how much movement will you have in the finger if the joint\'s gone?

have had three fingers in the circular saw at one time or another, never as bad as that, though....crossing my fingers...
 

Itchy

New member
Well, the knuckle works fine, and the first joint\'s a little stiff. The last joint in know a solid chunk of bone... never to flex again in this world. But, with a little bit of effort i can completely close my hand so that the tip of my pinkie touches the palm of my hand. But i can\'t keep my hand closed for very much longer than 20 to 30 minutes at a time... so painting gets a bit painful, but i\'m pretty good for sculpting. Hopfully the tendon heals up a bit more.

Anybody with a medical background know anything about tendons? i\'d really appreciate any knowledge you could pass on:)
 
P
Man I am surprised you don\'t have a splint and physiotherapy and the whole bit. They usually try to keep a tendon still that is trying to reattach itself. I\'m not there so\'s I can\'t say for sure, but it should be at least protected while it heals up. Tendons usually take way longer than bones to knit up.
Perhaps its that we have the cadalac of medical systems and you would get all the extra bells and wistles, or it could be its all they are able to do for ya. (You wouldn\'t have to pay a cent for all that work BTW, no matter the cause).

That is a nasty accident bud, hope it heals real quick for you. Sorry ta hear that happend.
Take good care of you,
Herve
 

Itchy

New member
Well, i have to wrap it every day. I\'ve got a little piece of sheet metal wrapped in tape, then a layer of none stick, then gause, then more tap. I change that out daily, but the doc told me to keep working the finger so i don\'t need theropy and so my joints don\'t freeze in place.

Thanks for the info, i\'ll be sure to baby it a bit more. And thanks for the well wishes... they make me look like this guy ->:D
 
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