Whos cut their finger?

[Kerne]

I once sliced the top off the index finger on my left hand with a Stanley knife when I was building flats for the set of a school play. The blood pumped out like a water pistol but the worst was when they injected the local anaesthetic directly into the wound so they could sew it back on - I cried like a baby! Still gets a bit painful when it's cold.

 

[WoodWildling]

hehe painful, I cut my finger today whilst accessing high ropes at work. there was a fine metal 'thread' sticking out...i didn't feel a thing and only realised what i'd done when i saw the blood dripping off my hand lol
40ft up a tree in a harness is not the best place to discover this....

Wild

 

[WhichDoctor]

It seems a lot of people cut themselves right after thinking, i might cut myself here. I often wonder if i hadn't thought that would i still have cut myself?

Funny, that's exactly what I was thinking just before I nearly cut the end off my left index finger .
In my case however it was because I was doing something really stupid and new it would all end in tears. luckily between me and my brother, the only other person around at the time, we managed to stop the bleeding quite quickly and I didn't have to go to hospital. I just put a bit of gauze over the cut and all the blood and whatnot soaked into it and glued the cut together beautifully. It did take about three months to regain the feeling in the end of my finger though.

Good luck with your digit BB. nerves are amazing things, once its all healed up just keep rubbing and stimulating any bits that are still num and im shore you'll get some feeling back eventually.

 

[xavierdoc]

Pics or it never happened.

OK, if you insist!

The bits on the blade used to be on the ends of the pinkies:
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A few weeks later:

Didn't learn though!
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In answer to an earlier question, the nerve repair is either performed using magnification from lupes (like specs with little bino's attached to the lenses) or operating microscope (at work we have rather sexy Leica and Zeiss models -£40,000 a piece!)

The suture material is very fine -hard to see with naked eye. The needle is very small and so the instruments have to be de-gaussed, otherwise when you go to pick up the needle it jumps to the slightly magnetic instrument (makes handling difficult.) Everything starts to get slightly sticky during the process (the body producing fibrin and other clotting agents, so the area is irrigated frequently (also keeps the nerve happy).

Don't cut your hands in the Nottinghamshire area, please -it might be me lashing you back together!

Stay safe and speedy recovery.

 

[Mike Ameling]

No pics available.

But are we counting/comparing scars? Or just missing digits?

No missing digits so far, but plenty of scars over the years. I can count a dozen or more on each hand. From axes, brushhooks, barb wire, rusty iron, glass, broken ceramic, grass/weeds, wood, stone, cloth (yes it can cut), scales, cartilege, fingernails, ice, plastic, teeth, bone, horn, even the occasional knife blade. Just all part of ... tinkering with your hands.

And then if we start adding in burns, well .....

At least all the "leaking" helps keep my blood pressure down. Gotta bleed off some of that excess and/or bad blood.

It sometimes sucks to be a body part attached to my brain.

Mikey - that grumpy ol' German blacksmith out in the Hinterlands

 

[Mat]

I shouldn't have read this post! I chopped my left index finger last weekend splitting whilst splitting wood (broke the golden rule of not holding the piece of wood you are chopping ).

It's not a big cut, but it is deep and I'm pretty sure I saw bone before the claret started flowing! Trouble is my finger still feels quite numb - like a constant pins and needles.

Oh dear

 

[bigbear]

My sympathies to all who are cut- me included, not concentrating yesterday, thankfully just a chunk out of a knuckle..............sighs..............

 

[Steve13]

I had a nasty one last year

I was carving with a chisel , it was late , I was tired and somehow deco=ided it was a good idea to put the chisel in the vice and push with the wood, the enevitable happened and I ended up with a 1/4" chisel emeded 1" in the joint at the base of my thumb.

One operation later, under full anisthetic, 30 odd stitches,and 2 weeks in plaster I could see it again but 12 months later even with therapy still can't use it properly and it is sore when cold and damp.

Advice is simple

Stop work when you are tired, and don't do stupid things with sharps, it hurts!!!

 

[ex Member swampy99]

Done the EPL tendon in my thumb with my new buck folding lock knife. micro surgery at broomfield and 12 weeks off work.

Im a **** for that one.

 

[reddave]

Oh dear J,
Do the lads at stanlow know how you've done that?
Go on, can I tell ém cos the bassnets will just rib you for this till the end of days.
Or has your kid told em all??
Its really serious and not the sort of thing anyone would want to happen to them but,
ha ha ha ha ha ...... not doin much typin now, eh?? or are you out on the probes now???
On a serious note, really hope you make a full recovery and stop bein' SSSSOOOOOOO blinkin clever wiv knives.
Doh,
Dave

 

[skoper]

I had just sourced some nice looking logs to turn on my new lathe, but first i thought it may be a good idea to remove the bark outside the shed with my new kukri macheti, after hearing the mutterings of old whittlers- a blunt knife is more dangerous than a sharp knife! old sayings eh? so my kukri was now razor sharp and as safe as could be,a nice log was chosen and placed on the larger 24 inch by 24 inch chopping board log , left hand safely out of the way on top of the log and i was shaving the bark off a treat, i had managed to shave four 18 inch square logs the sun was shining my back was aching from an accident id had involving a motorbike, so i made a brew and took my usual dosage of co dydramol and tramadol,by the time id drunk my brew i was totally pain free and buzzing to get going,the fifth log was similar sized and had a nice speckled grain . and looked like an expensive piece of fancy wood, kind of hypnotic 3d looking (i think youve got to. be into wood or something)it was whilst gazing into the grain of this unique looking piece of wood that i had cut down myself and was feeling chuffed about, .that i didnt . feel the pain it was only because the blade had stuck tightly into the wood thet snatched my attention, i was forced to look at my thumb almost seperated from the rest of my hand ,i must have been in shock or something because i was still pulling at the machete trying to free it from the log,two seperate hospitals later and my thumb was saved,but why doesnt it say on the packet where it says DO NOT OPPERATE MACHINERY WHILST USEING THIS MEDICATION, or use dangerous blunt knives!

 

[robin wood]

Funny thing is when men cut themselves it's always someone else's fault.

 

[warthog1981]

Funny thing is when men cut themselves it's always someone else's fault.

I openly admit that's its always my fault when I cut myself and I'm a man.

 

[gunslinger]

When I lived in France I was trying to match some old french mouldings with a fair amount of success.
It was a process of using about four different cutters in a router table and building it up ( or maybe cutting it down) bit by bit.
Any way when i got to the last piece which was only about 2ft long I got sloppy,as I had just had a cuppa in the kitchen and put my push stick down I thought sod it ,its the last bit and pushed it through by hand. Fairly predictably (for me anyway) I slipped and managed to route a nice ornamental cut ito the bone of the knuckle on my right index finger.

I refused to go to hospital (its a man thing) and spent 4 hours sat in the kitchen with two teatowels wrapped round my hand,and my hand in the air like I was asking to go to the toilet.

The next morning it hadnt stopped but I was certain at some point it would heal itself naturally,so for six months I couldnt close it fully,but now it all works so I was right

GS

 

[stevesteve]

Trouble is my finger still feels quite numb - like a constant pins and needles.

Mat, it sounds like you've damaged a nerve there. A day or so before my son was due I was putting up a last minute shelf very late at night and had to cut something or other.

The Stanley knife slipped and stopped when it hit the side of my thumb just behind the last joint. The bone stopped the blade leaving a '>' shaped wound with the point forwards and the tails at top and bottom ot the thumb.

Eight years later and the side and top of the last joint of the thumb are still 'tingley'. Missed the tendons and missed a blood vessel which is there abouts. The nerve was damaged but fortunately it was only the top not the ball of the thumb affected. I'd never actually thought about that before but that would have made gripping stuff difficult.

And yes... it was all my own fault!
Cheers,
Steve

 

[Toddy]

Just sliced my middle finger open on the plastic packaging around a new kitchen knife
It's right across the top knuckle and it bled so heavily that Son2 has just steristriped it closed so that it could be elastoplasted
Messy stuff blood

I *hate* those hard sealed plastic packs :bluThinki

Toddy

 

[HillBill]

Just sliced my middle finger open on the plastic packaging around a new kitchen knife
It's right across the top knuckle and it bled so heavily that Son2 has just steristriped it closed so that it could be elastoplasted
Messy stuff blood

I *hate* those hard sealed plastic packs :bluThinki

Toddy

Who needs to be careful of a knife sharp or not when the packaging can be more dangerous. I find it quite ironic.

I can just here the anti brigade now.
"Well, if knives were banned then you wouldn't have cut yourself"

 

[GroundSquirrel]

I was teaching a knife safety class once for about 15 kids, and cut my knuckle wide open until you could see the bone.

I told them it was what you didnt want to do.

gs

 

[Diligence]

Well - it seems as though I have you folks beat...and be thankful that my photo is of my hand today, not how it looked on March 13, 1989. It was a mess. Got it caught up in a multiple bladed table saw, I was cutting lathe for surveyors. I'm pleasantly happy that I actually have a right hand - mostly because wiping my rear end left handed is almost impossible.... LOL

Enjoy

D
http://photoshare.shaw.ca/messages/viewimage/3670361393-1233175356-96783/preview/12147328/page/1/15

 

[Backyard Bushcraft]

Hey just a finger update for all you guys,
Had the cast of last week (at last) an was pretty freaked out about how much movement i had lost, but they said thats pretty normal and so long as i keep doing my excerises the scar tissue wont be so tight and i should get full movement back, at the moment i cant make a fist or straighten it with out pulling alot of funny faces any who here is a pic of my hand when i just had the cast off
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w276/mr_brightside85/finger.jpg

and here it is a week later

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w276/mr_brightside85/05022009268.jpg

Im really impressed how fast the wound has closed up! just got to keep moving it now.....now then where did i leave that spoon ha ha ha