My Owie

The bad news:

Welcome to a lifetime of nothing feeling "right" in that hand ever again. I hope your doctor has mentioned to you that this is not a finger injury, it is an arm injury, as it will affect you on that level. I did something similar and lost feeling in my right index finger. My grip weakened. Knives haven't felt secure in my grip ever since, handguns feel "off" in that hand, and my shooting has suffered BIG TIME since that injury. I used to make knives (hobby) and had to be VERY careful while working so as not to inflict an injury that I wouldn't feel till too late.
If this is your dominant hand, it will be a life changing event. You might not think so at this time, but you will. Trust me.

The good news:

Do everything the physical therapist tells you to do with regard to the injury, work your a.s.s. off in PT and don't miss appointments. Your physical therapist is your only hope of regaining as much function as possible now. Seriously...
If you do that, you'll regain as much function as humanly possible. You may even notice a slight gain of feeling in the area that got nerve damage. PT will give you some semblance of strength in that hand again. It all depends on how seriously you take that PT.

Really wish I could be more good news oriented, but, having been there, done that, I can only relate what I know from experience. It's a life changing event that you will have to work at in order to get back to some semblance of normalcy with regard to that hand/arm.

Good luck and here's hoping you regain full strength and use of that hand/arm again!
 
I would listen about the PT. Good luck to you, prayers sent. Too bad Obama is down sizing the military, there is no need for counter terrorists like yourself. As far as alcohol goes....eventually it starts drinking you, be wise young man.
 
Thanks for all the good wishes and good advice on the PT, I know all about taking that seriously. My girlfriend had to go to PT for her knees and she still does the workouts from that to keep them strong a year later. I tend to take everything health wise seriously and hopefully it all goes well.
-Barry-
 
Well, if you consider self preservation as a healthy habit, I guess you don't take EVERYTHING health wise seriously. Then again, who knows what that can, let alone the table, had brewing.

Good luck healing up.
 
It's the healing I take quite seriously, but it's the cuts I need to work on.
-Barry-
 
Got some news. I have some surgery scheduled for Wednesday 22 to re-attach my artery and nerve for my pointer finger. The doctor said I will have most all of my feeling back in 2 months maybe longer. She'll be taking a piece of nerve from the back of my wrist to connect the damaged nerve to the good one, and a piece or vein from my wrist to patch my artery. Here are some updated pictures.
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She'll be using the same incision to get to my damaged stuff and I may need a skin graft from the top of my hand to cover that piece of dead skin on my little "Flap" thats darker then the rest of the flap.
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Heres a picture of both without the stitches.
-Barry-
 
Great news there! If your doc says you'll get most feeling back, exceeding that should be your goal. Strive to get all of that feeling back.
I certainly hope and pray your outcome is far better than mine. And, I can't complain really. I still have the finger and most of my pre-cut usage of it. :D

Best of luck in your recovery!
 
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