If you're in search of a good blade to put straight through a wrist look no further

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So yesterday I'm helping a friend load his truck. Some rope got stuck so I whip out my Buck 110, place my right hand in a safe area and start a pull cut with my left hand. rope snaps slightly later than I expected sending my arm backwards, the knife was aimed away from my body (naturally!) but I had failed to notice the stack of rubber mats behind me. my elbow launches in that rubber, bounces my arm back forward sending the blade clean through my right wrist. I'm not talking a deep cut but a full pass through.

I pulled it out and there was no pain but I immediately noticed I had no control over my ring finger and middle finger. I had clearly severed the tendons. I went into surgery last night and my arm is in a cast right now. I feel like such a ****. I've been around knives for so long always handling them responsibly and now this chit happens lol...maybe this is faith telling me to start a stamp collection instead. ;)

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Doc says I'm looking at 6 weeks with my arm in a cast and an estimated 5 months of therapy before I'll be able to fully use my hand.
 
Wishing you a speedy recovery - just shows it can happen to any of us.

I had tendon surgery on a finger, make a very stupid mistake with a slipjoint, it healed just fine with full range of movement.

Infection is your enemy and keep at it when therapy starts...
 
Wow, sorry to see your injury. I can't imaging how bad that must hurt. I hope you heal quickly and fully.
 
Very sorry to hear about your injury. Don't feel bad we all make mistakes. Hope you get well soon. We'll be praying for you.

Mike
 
Sorry to hear that and we all hope for a speedy recovery. Thankfully it didn't get your artery. On the bright side you can start buying leftys know.
 
The way you described it, you had so many little things build up to have this happen that it's crazy. Glad you're ok now, and I hope you heal quickly, thoughts and prayer for you
 
So sorry to hear and speedy recovery man! I've been looking at getting a Buck 110 again just to have as I've been interested in a having a belt sheath folding knife for my hikes, rather than carrying a small hunter or Mora fixed blade. Glad that Buck's are still getting things done even though in a not intended way!
 
What's funny about this is you had a knife through your wrist and still managed to type up a nice thread when I've had people in trades/sales say they couldn't ship/type/communicate with stuff a lot less painful.. Like a hangnail.. Good on you and hopefully you have a speedy recovery.
 
Jeez, man, I hope your recovery goes smoothly. I've never experienced anything quite like that, but I'm several months into recovering from a comparatively minor hand injury that reached the "maximum medical improvement" stage a couple of months ago and is now well into the "nagging" phase. It's amazing how a safe situation can quickly become anything but. All it takes is the right (well, wrong) set of circumstances.

Incidentally, I have a name for such occurrences: MacGuyver Bull****. When I was a kid and watching "MacGuyver" on TV in the living room, my father would see all the incredible circumstances in which the right events or right items popped up just in time to get our hero out of trouble, shake his head, and say "That could never happen." Well, Dad, I've learned that it can, but never in ways that will save your life. Rather, by some cruel hoax of fate, circumstances will dictate that a certain set of events will occur in such a way as to work against you, usually in epic fashion. Like in your situation, if you needed that Buck knife, rope and rubber mats to all be right there to get you out of some life-threatening bind, nope . . . one of them would be out of reach, fail to do what you needed, or be absent entirely. However, if life can **** you by getting that rope to snap, the rubber to bounce your hand back and the knife to be in just the right place to cut you, then so it shall. MacGuyver would be proud.
 
Damn, use a rescue blade next time!. :p If you get impaled again, don't remove the blade, you can do more damage and you'll lose a lot more blood. Hope you heal up nicely, without any real damage being done...ouch!.
 
Heal soon! Make sure that you get good therapy afterwards. Go to a certified hand specialist PT or OT only.

I work in rehab. LMK if I can help point you in the right direction brother.
 
Sorry to hear that. I hope the recovery is quick and it be a lesson to everyone to never be lax with knives or other tools that can hurt you.
 
That's nuts!
Good luck on your recovery.
And don't feel like an idiot. Bad things happen to good people, and practice doesn't always matter.
 
I know we spend a lot of money, and our wives sometimes get mad, but it's not so bad to slit your wrist over! ;)
Should have snapped a picture of the blade actually in your wrist... Would have been great in the "hall of meat" thread...

Best wishes on recovery, tendon damage is a tricky one, therapy might suck and you very well may hate your physical therapist at times, but one step at a time, you'll be back at it...
 
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