This is why you ask for help

[littlefuzz]

I was flipping over a load chart holder that was made from 3 x 3 x 1/4 tube. It had 2 legs that were around 14' long ant it was around 5' wide. It got away from me and got my finger between it and the table behind me. It broke it right behind my fingernail (which is not there anymore) and they put a pin in it. I'm lucky that's all it did. Next time I'll ask for some help. Here's the pics.

8647

8648

[MicroZone]

Well, now you have some Stainless Steel in you! :)

[DDA52]

:eek: :( Ouch.....suddenly my freshly sprained wrist and thumb doesn't feel so bad. :( I guess that wasn't as bad as it could have been, but I bet you don't do that again...nor will I.:eek: Be careful and heal up fast. Here is a little guy to help out next time.:help: :help: :help: :waving:

[Sandy]

Lots of nerve endings in the finger tips!!!!!!!!! OUCH!! :cry: I can feel the pain from here.

Had a friend that ripped the hide and some meat off the end of his finger about a month ago. The skin graft didn't want to take so they sowed his finger to the palm of his hand and let it grow to that skin then cut a patch out of his palm. Egadds.

[DDA52]

:cry: That isn't a good one either, Sandy. Plenty of pain to spread around today. I was told of a guy that was falling off of a metal roof, today. He apparently grabbed the sheetmetal side to try and slow himself down and ended up cutting two fingers off.:eek: ......man...my wrist feels much better now.:blob3:

[littlefuzz]

definitly could have been worse. The guy in the room next to me cut off one finger and messed up the other two real bad with a skill saw. Not to mention the psycotic woman that was in the waiting room that tried to bust out the glass at the receptionist's deskwith her cane, there was a cop there and he sprayed mace in her face and took her to jail. I certainly don't need any mental problems (no more than I already do):laugh:

[denrep]

... It broke it right behind my fingernail (which is not there anymore) and they put a pin in it...


Hey littlefuzz, I tested the compression strength of my finger a couple years ago, took the nail right off too. Doc gave me a fake nail that was supposed to keep the nail bed from turning to scar tissue and loosing adhesion during healing. I recovered with 100% good nail bed and nail. You might ask about it.

Good Luck

[littlefuzz]

Hey littlefuzz, I tested the compression strength of my finger a couple years ago, took the nail right off too. Doc gave me a fake nail that was supposed to keep the nail bed from turning to scar tissue and loosing adhesion during healing. I recovered with 100% good nail bed and nail. You might ask about it.

Good Luck
My fingernail was still there, he took it off during surgery. He said he fixed the nail bed and it should grow back straight. I think my finger's gonna be a little crooked though :(

[denrep]

My fingernail was still there, he took it off during surgery. He said he fixed the nail bed and it should grow back straight. I think my finger's gonna be a little crooked though :(

As I understood it, the reason I had to use a plastic "fingernail" over the nailbed was use was to keep the bed from scaring over or drying out due to air exposure and lack of a nail.

For me it worked, maybe would have healed without the plastic nail, I don't know.

Just trying to help

[TEK]

littlefuzz, that really bites. That is not a happy finger. I feel for ya man, but I can only use one arm to do that with. The other one will be in a sling for the next 4-6 weeks.:waving: :blush2: I should of asked for help too---

[littlefuzz]

littlefuzz, that really bites. That is not a happy finger. I feel for ya man, but I can only use one arm to do that with. The other one will be in a sling for the next 4-6 weeks.:waving: :blush2: I should of asked for help too---
Geez, we're all beat up. It wasn't that long ago I had to have surgery to remove that piece of punch that shot out of the ironworker into my hand.

I'll ask when I go back to the doc about that plastic nail. If nothing else it should keep me from hitting on anything :) Thanks

[enlpck]

I was in the same boat about 3 years ago. Didn't need a pin as the chunks were pretty well in place. Most of the feeling came back, eventually. Mine was one of the dumber ways.... was installing a heavy part and had it on blocking. As the thought went through my head that blocking or not, I shouldn't have my finger between two really heavy hunks of steel, the blocking slipped. Nail came back on its own without any help, but has a ridge in it wher the scar runs through the root.

Real pretty ER doctor. Nice, too. Not worth the pain, though, especially since she was married. Did go on a date with the receptionist for the plastic surgeon, though. Reminded me: Don't date for looks.

[awright]

Jeez! You guys make me want to stay in bed all day withy the covers pulled up. My legs are still tingling from reading all those misadventures.

awright

[smithboy]

That makes me hurt just looking at it...I bet it'll be a few months before you can use that little finger to scratch inside your left ear...

[enlpck]

That makes me hurt just looking at it...I bet it'll be a few months before you can use that little finger to scratch inside your left ear...
I'd imagine that pin would make a dandy scratcher for the ear. Might not want to do it though :)

[jptech]

I'd imagine that pin would make a dandy scratcher for the ear. Might not want to do it though :)

I'd be careful going to the bathroom too!!! :laugh:
Sorry, couldn't help it!---------john :drinkup: :drinkup:

[wello]

Ouch I feel your pain :cry: you were lucky that was all you did
you could of ended up with a finger like this
8689

[Sandy]

Well heck wello, you didn't even cut 'em all to the same length. :laugh: .

What were you thinking?? :waving:

[smithboy]

My wife had a great uncle that lost his index finger in a thread mill...high-speed thread cuts really well. Anyway, back when there were full-service service stations around here, he'd pull into one and they would ask how much gas he needed...he would hold up both hands...every time they would say "so, $10?"...he'd say NO...$9.

[MicroZone]

:laugh:

Shoot - nothing like a full service station. Except, full service today is just filling your gas. :( We have one in town, the only one around for probably a 100 or 200 mile radius.

[littlefuzz]

I'd imagine that pin would make a dandy scratcher for the ear. Might not want to do it though :)
It's a little rough for scratching. That doc needs a belt sander in his OR to take the burrs off these pins he puts in, it's pretty dang sharp. :laugh: Or at least take a file to it. :rolleyes:

[littlefuzz]

Ouch I feel your pain :cry: you were lucky that was all you did
you could of ended up with a finger like this
8689
I watched one of my guys to that on the shear one night. He had his finger under one of the dogs when he hit the petal :cry: Didn't seem to bother him to bad, made me woozy though, :dizzy: I thought he was gonna have to drive me to the hospital. I don't do so well with blood. :help:

[zapster]

I don't do so well with blood.

:laugh:

Well your in the wrong sport....:nono:


Yeouch..
Been there done that..will probably do it again sometime..:rolleyes:

But you take better pics of smashed up body parts than I do..:p ;)

Get well soon!

...zap!

[deadman11699]

Nice little ground for a welding arc to catch.

[Weldordie]

My fingernail was still there, he took it off during surgery. He said he fixed the nail bed and it should grow back straight. I think my finger's gonna be a little crooked though :(

A bunch of years ago I caught my right thumb in the spokes of a recumbent bicycle while trying to adjust the three-speed shifter in the hub, as I was pedaling down the street. The spokes slammed the thumb against the sharp edge of the fender stay, chewing up the thumb a bit, including the nail bed. The physician sewed it up, and a couple of weeks later, while removing the stitches, he grabbed the wrong end of a stitch, and tried to pull the knot through the hole. That was the last time I've let anyone but me remove my stitches.

Weeks later, I noticed a small bit of stray nail, emerging from the side of the thumb, so I yanked it out with a pair of pliers with the root attached. Problem solved.

[bigcountry1009]

Wow, nice painful stories and pics. My fitter at work is missing the first 3 fingers on his right hand (and he still plays the piano). The only maintenance guy that has all his fingers is the new guy. Many missing toes. Bad burn scars. A few twitches from 3 phase 480 grazing some folks. Many deaf ears and blind eyes. Back when I set up presses for Timken, we had another setter pulling and replacing a die set, about 75lbs or so. He used his belly to kind of push the the die set in place and got his Whoop dee doos caught in between. He said they turned a few colors as they healed up, but apparently work ok now. I haven't had any major incidents as yet. A few tickles from my tig torch or burns from rod ends. No big deal so far.

[awright]

After reading all these stories I can save my ticket price for, "Texas Chainsaw Massacre III." That would be boring compared to you guys.

awright

[littlefuzz]

OMG, if I got my "Whoop dee doos" caught in between something 75lbs (other than, well ya know) I hope someone would have enough courtesy to knock me out.