Channeling Django Reinhardt?

[jackthehack]

My dog head-butted me (her way of letting me know she REALLY needs to go out) whilst I was ripping the last row of kitchen flooring last week, leaving me in the state indicated in the picture below...

Barely touched the blade of the table saw, but it ripped the whole callus built up on the tip of the finger from playing guitar.

I have a whole new found respect and awe of Django Reinhardt...  While I could learn how to play without that finger, it'll heal long before I'd be competent again...

 

[rapfohl09]

Yikes!!! I am glad that it was as minor (I mean I guess in thinking about how bad it could have been) as it was!

Heres to a speedy recovery!

 

[jackthehack]

Per the doctors, it'll take a couple of months for the skin to regenerate completely. They warned me that I should go gradually in building the callus back up, i.e., don't play until you get blood blisters like you did with virgin fingers on your first guitar...

 

[DangerousR6]

ouch, that hurts, I did that years ago sharpening a knife. Took the tip of my pinky right off, I super glued it back on... :laughing7:

 

[jackthehack]

ouch, that hurts, I did that years ago sharpening a knife. Took the tip of my pinky right off, I super glued it back on... :laughing7:

With table saw blade going ca. 125 mph, finding the tip a non-starter...

 

[Great Ape]

Hooooooooooooooo-WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! Hate to call that LUCK, but I guess on the Arterial-Blood-Spray-Scale, it was! (BTW; Betadine is a fantastic healing aid...WHAT? No, no--I said HEALING aid...seriously.)

 

[jackthehack]

Hooooooooooooooo-WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! Hate to call that LUCK, but I guess on the Arterial-Blood-Spray-Scale, it was! (BTW; Betadine is a fantastic healing aid...WHAT? No, no--I said HEALING aid...seriously.)

It WAS pretty lucky, another fraction of an inch and I'd be researching Tommy Iommi fingertips...

It's finally scabbed over enough to lose the finger splint, can't believe how stiff the finger is after being splinted for a week, can't close that finger into a fist, will have to start working on that...

 

[Patrick from Davis]

Yeah, definitely work on that.  I had surgery on my hand and now one of the knuckles on the first finger doesn't really work.  Calcified parts of the knuckle.  A minors are a pain, literally.
Patrick

 

[Re-Pete]

Hooooooooooooooo-WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! Hate to call that LUCK, but I guess on the Arterial-Blood-Spray-Scale, it was! (BTW; Betadine is a fantastic healing aid...WHAT? No, no--I said HEALING aid...seriously.)

It WAS pretty lucky, another fraction of an inch and I'd be researching Tommy Iommi fingertips...

It's finally scabbed over enough to lose the finger splint, can't believe how stiff the finger is after being splinted for a week, can't close that finger into a fist, will have to start working on that...

Definitely work on that. With little or no use, the muscles & tendons etc within your damaged finger may shrink/wither & then you'd have a hard time building up strength & dexterity.

 

[Dan025]

Hooooooooooooooo-WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! Hate to call that LUCK, but I guess on the Arterial-Blood-Spray-Scale, it was! (BTW; Betadine is a fantastic healing aid...WHAT? No, no--I said HEALING aid...seriously.)

It WAS pretty lucky, another fraction of an inch and I'd be researching Tommy Iommi fingertips...

It's finally scabbed over enough to lose the finger splint, can't believe how stiff the finger is after being splinted for a week, can't close that finger into a fist, will have to start working on that...

i cut through my fingernail on a band saw... well i also managed to break that finger in the process. the part was unstable in the table and it got caught up in the blade and the top of the part became the front of the part and slammed down on my finger as it rotated forward.. the military doctors splinted my finger and cleaned it but said they couldn't stitch it. then they decided to get a consult from a hand surgeon but weren't in any rush to get me there. after two weeks with a splinted finger the hand surgeon scolded them for their stupidity, she stitches under fingernail all the time. the cut healed but it was not responsible to leave me with an open fracture, also they didn't have to immobilize the whole finger.. the movement came back to my finger within a couple days.. but i was also about 20-21 when it happened so i was resilient. hope all works out well.

 

[jackthehack]

24 hours later, it's a lot less stiff, beginning to wonder if maybe I sprained it as part of the accident...

 

[Cagey]

The brain has a way of blanking out traumatic incidents, so it's sometimes difficult to say what actually happened. Also, reactions to such things can be violent, so you over-stress muscles and they'll ache later.

I remember when I was a kid watching a storm come in on my grandmother's farm, and while I was standing at the door lightning hit a tree not 50 feet away. Startled the snot out me and I swear every muscle in my body spasmed practically into a cramp. For the next three days I felt like I'd gone 10 rounds with a prizefighter.

I caught the blade on my table saw a few years ago, and had a similar thing happen. I came off that ultra-fast, and was absolutely terrified of what I thought had happened. Couldn't even look for a minute or so, hoping for some kind of miracle to reverse time. As it worked out, all it really did was cut me good - didn't take anything appreciable off. But, the next day, I felt like somebody had given me a serious beating. It was over-exertion of the muscles involved with getting off the damned thing so fast.

So, I sympathize with you. And I'll offer some advice that you probably don't need: make some pushers, and use them. It's a boring pain in the ass to make them and they'll slow you down slightly, but think of how crippled you feel right now, then imagine losing one of your fingers entirely.

Meanwhile, give the wife a Franklin and send her out for about 5 cases of beer <grin>

 

[jackthehack]

Homey don't do wives, that's for suckers...

 

[jackthehack]

Could be a lot worse... It was opened up all the way across the top of the finger when it happened Saturday before last.

 

[Cagey]

Homey don't do wives, that's for suckers...

I've learned that lesson. Should've seen it on the going-in side, but rose-colored glasses and all that.