:doh: So I am helping my old man with a deck on his house, and today I had the marvelous luck of smashing the crap out of my right index finger with my own hammer, of course. No guitar playing for me for a few days, it's all swollen and the nail is probably gonna come off I am guessing...... I hate it when I injure myself!! I especially hate it when I can't play........... This freakin blows... :sad1:
Ouch!!
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I'm sure that with a little obscene and illogical thinking, the company that made the hammer could be to blame. The key is trying hard enough to see past it being your fault.
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BigBeard said:
That sucks. But, at least you didn't break it. That would take a lot longer to heal.
I remember back 100 years ago me and a buddy of mine who played quite heavily worked at this deli/meat counter that specialized in fresh fish and poultry. I mean, really fresh fish and poultry that had only been dead a couple/few hours. Some of those buggers you could knock on the head with the butt of your knife and they'd still flop once or twice in defiance. Anyway, they were still whole, and we offered cleaning/filleting if desired as well. Of course, nearly everybody wanted that, so we got pretty good at it, but hated every second of it because even a dead fish can be a dangerous thing. It was a rare week that went by where one or the other of us didn't get stabbed or cut by a dorsal fin, side barb, teeth or even our own knife work, and it would invariably get infected. Then there was the pain, swelling, pus, and all that fun stuff while you waited for it to subside, which generally took several days, during which you couldn't play. These days I take not playing for a couple days in stride, but back then it was like being told you couldn't eat or play with the baby's mommy <grin>
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Just one finger? You can still play. Now quit your bitching and practice, dammit. I mean really, I'm no dead fan, but even I know Jerry was missing a finger and he still managed.
a few years back i was cutting a bagel and made a clean cut straight down the middle of the left index finger. it was a little bloody, and hurt like hell for an hour or so and then i was fine. my problem was that the next day i had band practice. i was in a really crappy metal shredding band, and i was lead guitar. i could barely fret a drop D barre chord. my band aid came off and it got all bloody again. i think that few hours of band practice set my poor finger back about a week.
Return of Guitlouie said:
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Hey Louie how is it buddy? Yeah Jerry was missing a finger, his middle one on his picking hand, unfortunately for me I smashed my index finger on my fretting hand............ I have that lefty thing going on...
Well after a nights sleep, it's worse, throbbing and whatnot. Now its really swollen, I just might have broken something in there, it's like three times its normal size, not just where I smashed it, but my whole finger. Can't bend the first knuckle at all. What really sucks about it all is that my wife just switched hospitals and we currently don't have health insurance, so the normal doctor's visit and x-rays aren't gonna happen this time, I'm just going to have to deal with it... I mean, it's not the worst pain I ever felt, it's just a really inconvenient part of your body to crush with a hammer, especially if you play guitar!!
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Django Reinhardt had a couple of non-functioning fingers on his fretting hand and he still played reasonably well.
And if the worst comes to the worst you can always switch to bass.
But kidding aside, yeah, this sort of thing also has me worried a lot.
And if the worst comes to the worst you can always switch to bass.
But kidding aside, yeah, this sort of thing also has me worried a lot.
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