Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Modern medicine amazed me tonight....

Who'da thunk that the ER doc would stitch ya up, right thru the fingernail......tablesaw bit me, and I thought I was a perfeshional.....

Damn, that hurt.

Ouch! I ran a small woodworking shop for twenty some years and had to bring a few people to the ER over the years. Never was a fun thing. At least it was never too bad.

Hope you heal up just fine.

Did it hit the bone?

That looks like it got your attention.

Yeah, it hit bone. Took the very tip off the finger bone, but the thumb was good.

One of two things are true. 1) there are lots of nerve endings there, or....2) I'm a puzzy....

Dayam! I hate table saws, and chain saws. They do not cut, they remove material.

Heal well.

Those are going to be reminding you for some time.
Ouch!!

Well at least it is your left hand, you can still pick your nose.

only the right side...

Yeah that's true, hellya kin okie blow the left side.

sure cant fit that in the left nostril.....

I removed about 3/8" of my left index finger. Looked like it was cut off with a cigar clipper;
My fingernail bed never got the message that my finger was shortened, so I now have nail bed growing past the end of my finger. Not a great thing.
Been about 5 years now, and nerves are still kinda tingly numb.
Hope you have a better result.

Well we will have to start calling you "fingers"
or "Buzz"

I rewired my 10" table saw for 220Volts, nothing stops it now, I am very careful around them, father in law got bit good once, of course he also lost half his trigger finger of his right hand as a young guy in Holland, while riding his motorcycle and trying to adjust something and the chain got him.

Ran my right index finger into a bandsaw blade in the wood shop in 7th grade. Had the finger under a piece of wood where I couldn't see it. Never felt a thing but thought to myself how odd it was for a block of pine to be bleeding. When the lightbulb came on I hit the off switch and extracted myself from the saw. I'd cut right through the fingernail and into the bone a little past half way.

Teacher was in the can and being an ignorant kid who loved wood shop more than any other facet of school at the time, I wrapped my finger in a dirty rag and kept my hand in my pocket the rest of the day. I figured I'd be banned from the shop permanently if anyone found out.

Somehow I avoided infection and even my folks didn't know what happened until it was too late for stitches. In fact I don't think my mom found out until I was in my 20's. Darn sure taught me a new respect for power saws.

Hope you heal up in good fashion. I prescribe a weeks worth of arrowhead hunting with a whiskey chaser in the evenings.

Check this cat out, hurt but still throwin' signs and representin', yo. Like a boss! Don't recognize your set though. Who you claimin'? Los Vasginos?



May you heal fast and wind up no worse for the wear, friend. Glad it wasn't worse.

Guess two finger drinks will be more potent now too.

May not help your nostril...but could help the wifee out....

Ouch..........


Careful where you put those fingers.


Glad it wasn't worse.

Flyer