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sherlockbonez

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Just found some pictures from a double flexor tendon reattachment surgery I had a few years ago. My pinky doesn't close completely to this day. Please be careful with your knife today. :)

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Best of luck getting the mobility back, can you still feel anything in the finger? I completely screwed my trigger finger 8 months ago, to this day can barely break a 3 lb singlestage trigger.
 
It's been close to 3 years now, so it's about as good as it's going to get. I have some feeling in the tip, but not much. It also don't have real good circulation, so when my hand gets cold that finger gets tingly. Also impedes throwing a football since I can't close that finger as much anymore.
 
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I'll play.

Tendon reattachment here as well. Tore it playing high school football :D

6 weeks in a cast, 6 months in a brace, and a year of physical therapy. Got about 75% of my movement back
 
PayetteRucker said:
get cramped when you write? probably can't shoot all that well in that hand either, I'd imagine.
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I do get cramped when I write since I also have a broken knuckle in the middle finger in that hand as well that was not properly fixed.

I shoot mostly long guns and it doens't really matter. The only real structured shooting with pistol that I do was when I was doing training and qualifications for work. We shot about 1000 rounds or so of 40cal in a week. My score was perfect, but I sure wish my hands work.
 
sherlockbonez said:
Just found some pictures from a double flexor tendon reattachment surgery I had a few years ago. My pinky doesn't close completely to this day. Please be careful with your knife today. :)

Finger.jpg
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I'm sorry to see that happen to you.

How exactly did that happen?

I want to make sure I don't make the same mistake.

Thanks.
 
sherlockbonez said:
I do get cramped when I write since I also have a broken knuckle in the middle finger in that hand as well that was not properly fixed.

I shoot mostly long guns and it doens't really matter. The only real structured shooting with pistol that I do was when I was doing training and qualifications for work. We shot about 1000 rounds or so of 40cal in a week. My score was perfect, but I sure wish my hands work.
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Busted the first joint on my trigger finger 8 months ago and it was reset. For that 8 months the finger was all but useless, no mobility and no strength whatsoever. After the tendons in my hand healed I could use the hand again but the finger was obviously set wrong. About a month ago I said enough of this, ripped the knuckle out of the joint, mashed up all the cartilage in there and reset it myself. Now a month later I can close it into a fist for the first time in almost a year, and I can feel it getting stronger. I'm sure I'll have to re-learn trigger disciplines once I get to the point where I can shoot again, but man it sucks being out of operation.
 
You guys topped me, but I have a similar problem. I cut my pinky tendon about 7 years ago. Cut it right in the middle of my pinky, between the first and second nucle from the tip. I still have feeling, but for the last 7 years I have not been able to move the last part of my pinky -the very tip does not pull in when I make a fist. It sucks.
 
I power drilled the first knuckle in my left index finger a few year ago, still don't have complete movement of it but it does get better with time, it takes a very long time for nerves to regrow. It took three months for me to get feeling back in my fingertip(same finger) from a minor cut (in comparison to yours, still took nine stitches) that I got back in July. Sometimes the nerve can regrow around the wound which makes it take longer to heal. I find it much better just not to get cut.
 
GWashington1732 said:
... I find it much better just not to get cut.
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+1:thumbup:

Not long after I got married, but before I knew much about blade safety, I nearly removed my left index finger at the first joint with a 10" serrated kitchen knife. Went more than half way through, between the bones. Didn't have insurance, or money, so I put band-aids on it, and taped a piece of cardboard to it as a splint. Healed crooked, was sore for about a year, and took several years to get maybe 80% motion back. Still won't go strait, and that was fifteen years ago, give or take.
 
Kbrasmodeler said:
+1:thumbup:

Not long after I got married, but before I knew much about blade safety, I nearly removed my left index finger at the first joint with a 10" serrated kitchen knife. Went more than half way through, between the bones. Didn't have insurance, or money, so I put band-aids on it, and taped a piece of cardboard to it as a splint. Healed crooked, was sore for about a year, and took several years to get maybe 80% motion back. Still won't go strait, and that was fifteen years ago, give or take.
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Damn, major props to you.
 
LOL, I also cut my left index finger with a cheap folding saw while camping in high school. It's about the same length as the picture, but on the back. We were good 4 day paddle to get back to the car, so I just got pseudo-stitches by one of my buddy there. That one still works fine.
 
I opened this thread and scrolled down really fast just so I could say:

THANK YOU FOR THE WARNING!

I hate opening a thread and being surprised by a wallpaper sized macro shot of a bloody wound, that is not cool.
 
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