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Odog27 said:
Nice clean cut. I’d just superglue it.
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Perhaps after centering it a little better.

P.S.
According to my mom, my grandmother did that to her own thumb a long, long time ago when she was younger. Being rather poor, they didn't take her to the doctor. They just stuck it back on, wrapped it up, and it supposedly reattached on its own. Is that even possible? o_O

She did have a very faint line all the way around her thumb, about 1/4" from the knuckle.
 
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Human fingers have an incredible ability to fully heal after suffering massive trauma. My father jokes that it’s an almost starfish level of healing.
Anecdotally, one of my friends was putting the engine back in his car and his index finger was smashed between the motor and transmission. It basically “popped” 2/3’s of his finger. It was smashed almost flat and looked like ground beef. Bones were broke but not shattered. He was sure they would be amputating it. He went to the hospital where they took some xrays and manipulated it a bit.
In the end, they just kind of mashed it back into a finger shape, wrapped it up and sent him home. They told him it should heal up fine. And that he may or may not get his fingernail back. If you looked at his hands today you would not be able to tell which finger it was.
 
Odog27 said:
Human fingers have an incredible ability to fully heal after suffering massive trauma. My father jokes that it’s an almost starfish level of healing.
Anecdotally, one of my friends was putting the engine back in his car and his index finger was smashed between the motor and transmission. It basically “popped” 2/3’s of his finger. It was smashed almost flat and looked like ground beef. Bones were broke but not shattered. He was sure they would be amputating it. He went to the hospital where they took some xrays and manipulated it a bit.
In the end, they just kind of mashed it back into a finger shape, wrapped it up and sent him home. They told him it should heal up fine. And that he may or may not get his fingernail back. If you looked at his hands today you would not be able to tell which finger it was.
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Very true! Back in May of 2016, on Mother's Day of all days, I created a totally unnecessary conflict between a cheap yet thin and deadly sharp kitchen knife, an avocado and me whereby I came out totally at the losing end of the matter with a perfectly good and ripe avocado being tossed!

Because of a very lousy technique while trying to remove the pip from the fruit, I successfully stabbed myself and then blood erupted like the dancing fountains of Bellagio Hotel. The ER visit concluded with me managing to have severed 2 tendons but mind you very cleanly sliced through! Many stitches and magical potions later to prevent bacteria infestation, I was sent home in some form of a soft case and paperwork to go visit with a surgeon.

The consultation was no music to my ears! I was deemed to be a candidate for surgery to repair damaged nerves (not the tandems, they were gonzo!) as the good Dr. read me the riot act about severe and painful future neuroma. Needless to say that I completely took my own medical advice by later on uttering, "FUDGE THIS, I AIN'T DOING THE OP". The thought of being in a cast for 6 months just to wait and see if I'd fully recover was just too much of a nuisance for Unc. Matty! Matty needed his hands, both of them, albeit with 9 good digits as opposed to 10 digits later on with an iffy one.

Almost 3 years later, you'll need a magnifying glass to search for the damage. I do not have full range of motion, naturally as I'm 2 tendons short but there was no severe / painful neuroma. I have lost much sensation on the inner side of the left index finger but that's about the extent of things. Since that date, most crucially, I have made an eternal peace with all things avocado and guacamole ;)
 
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Casinostocks said:
Very true! Back in May of 2016, on Mother's Day of all days, I created a totally unnecessary conflict between a cheap yet thin and deadly sharp kitchen knife, an avocado and me whereby I came out totally at the losing end of the matter with a perfectly good and ripe avocado being tossed!

Because of a very lousy technique while trying to remove the pip from the fruit, I successfully stabbed myself and then blood erupted like the dancing fountains of Bellagio Hotel. The ER visit concluded with me managing to have severed 2 tandems but mind you very cleanly sliced through! Many stitches and magical potions later to prevent bacteria infestation, IO was sent home in some form of a soft case and paperwork to go visit with a surgeon.

The consultation was not music to my ears! I was deemed to be a candidate for surgery to repair damaged nerves (not the tandems, they were gonzo!) as the good Dr. read me the riot act about severe and painful future neuroma. Needless to say that I completely took my own medical advice by later on uttering, "FUDGE THIS, I AIN'T DOING THE OP". The thought of being in a cast for 6 months just to wait and see if I'd fully recover was just too much of a nuisance for Unc. Matty! Matty needed his hands, both of them, albeit with 9 good digits as opposed to 10 digits later on with an iffy one.

Almost 3 years later, you'll need a magnifying glass to search for the damage. I do not have full range of motion, naturally as I'm 2 tandems short but there was no severe / painful neuroma. I have lost much sensation on the inner side of the left index finger but that's about the extent of things. Since that date, most crucially, I have made an eternal peace with all things avocado and guacamole ;)
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Tandem bicycles or kayaks? Must've been a really sharp knife to cut through 2 of 'em.

On a somewhat related note, when I was younger, the Asian barber that I used to get haircuts from, always had his pinky extended while doing everything. I thought it was just an affectation.

He later told me that he can't curl that pinky finger. Apparently, he used to do the Mr. Miyagi trick with beer bottles. Did it many times successfully, until the one time the bottle didn't break cleanly. The bottleneck broke at an angle, leaving a protrusion that sliced through the tendon in the pinky. Being a 'tough guy', he just bandaged it and never went to a doc. Sliced through tendons don't reattach on their own (the muscle tension pulls the ends away from each other).
 
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Tandem bicycles or kayaks? Must've been a really sharp knife to cut through 2 of 'em.

On a somewhat related note, when I was younger, the Asian barber that I used to get haircuts from, always had his pinky extended while doing everything. I thought it was just an affectation.

He later told me that he can't curl that pinky finger. Apparently, he used to do the Mr. Miyagi trick with beer bottles. Did it many times successfully, until the one time the bottle didn't break cleanly. The bottleneck broke at an angle, leaving a protrusion that sliced through the tendon in the pinky. Being a 'tough guy', he just bandaged it and never went to a doc. Sliced through tendons don't reattach on their own (the muscle tension pulls the ends away from each other).
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Kayaks, obviously :D

I'm a fool when I type on my phone! OK wise guys, this is where we drop that eternal and perpetual fool idea and this is as far as it goes! Mmmkay?

Corrections made for the sake of comprehension and thank you :)
 
I stabbed myself doing (skills above my ability) tricks with a balisong. Does that count? And yes, I'm staying to the basics if I even pick one up anymore. :D
 
I did that once with a hack saw. Fortunately, I stopped when it hit the bone. The funny thing was that as I was sawing the aluminum rod, I said to my self, "You're going to cut your finger if you keep doing this." I didn't listen to myself.
 
Choppaman said:
I stabbed myself doing (skills above my ability) tricks with a balisong. Does that count? And yes, I'm staying to the basics if I even pick one up anymore. :D
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When I was a kid (about 10-12 yrs. old) I was at my best friends house and he had just obtained a balisong. We were standing in the kitchen on a hardwood floor as he demonstrated opening and closing it. It flew out of his hand and he instinctively tried to catch it before it hit the floor. It landed tip first right in the middle of the palm of his hand. Went in a good half inch.
I had to tell this story because it is the same friend I mentioned above with the smashed finger.
 
Odog27 said:
When I was a kid (about 10-12 yrs. old) I was at my best friends house and he had just obtained a balisong. We were standing in the kitchen on a hardwood floor as he demonstrated opening and closing it. It flew out of his hand and he instinctively tried to catch it before it hit the floor. It landed tip first right in the middle of the palm of his hand. Went in a good half inch.
I had to tell this story because it is the same friend I mentioned above with the smashed finger.
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Those are wicked! I watch those guys toss them around and wonder how the hell they don't end up with stubs. That's exactly what would happen to me. LOL. I stay to the basics! LOL.
 
Choppaman said:
I stabbed myself doing (skills above my ability) tricks with a balisong. Does that count? And yes, I'm staying to the basics if I even pick one up anymore. :D
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Complacency can be hazardous with those.

I did the whole taped edge until I was pretty decent with mine. Was walking home one day, just flipping it absentmindedly. Mistimed something and my fingers closed on the razor sharp edge, a fraction before the closing handle slammed my fingers deeper onto the edge to add insult to injury. 3 fingers sliced quite nicely.

Wrapped my hand with a bandanna and had to find creative ways to hide my hand from my parents until it was mostly healed (I was about 14?).
 
bluemax_1 said:
Complacency can be hazardous with those.

I did the whole taped edge until I was pretty decent with mine. Was walking home one day, just flipping it absentmindedly. Mistimed something and my fingers closed on the razor sharp edge, a fraction before the closing handle slammed my fingers deeper onto the edge to add insult to injury. 3 fingers sliced quite nicely.

Wrapped my hand with a bandanna and had to find creative ways to hide my hand from my parents until it was mostly healed (I was about 14?).
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About exactly how it went down for me. LOL

In our bedroom by the bed with a white comforter. Ouch, looked, knife embedded, pulled out and splat of red on white. Doghouse consequences and ended up getting a cold after visiting the emergency room for repairs. o_O
 
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