Ouch, Don. That's nasty. We might have to nickname you kerf or pushstick.
I've been fortunate that nothing like that has happened to me, yet. I started working for a family friend at 13, building patio furniture from treated lumber and building decks. Lots of planing, ripping and cross cutting, routering and dadoing of wood.
The bosses son, who was a couple years older than me, worked there sometimes too and was rabbeting out some mating sections for a rocking chair and got the idea to chuck a router bit up in the drill press and crank the speed up to remove the material faster than making dozens of half depth saw cuts and finishing with a chisel.
It worked really well, too. He was making a clean job of it until the router bit caught a knot in the wood and dragged the wood and hand through the bit. Mangled the chit out of his first 3 fingers, it did. A bunch of surgeries, some stainless pins a couple months later and he was back to work, a smarter and more cautious young man.
Hope it heals up quickly and cleanly for you.
