[Closed] Bugger

Doing under local so I'm expecting something more agricultural involving a metal file and a stapler.

If they're doing it under a ring block, you'll be right, though I can't see them using staples (while there are no finer words in the English language than 'clips to skin', especially at the end of a long operating list, they're not the best for anything that isn't a straight incision).

If it's going to be a brachial plexus block...

Ring block was mentioned

This maybe isn't entirely helpful, but when I sliced up my hand it was the ring block that caused the most problems- the doctor was dead on his feet and lost balance and stuck the needle right through my finger into the desk.

And that STILL wasn't the stupidest thing that happened to my hand that day, because I sliced myself to ribbons doing the dishes.

Thanks northwind. That isn't helpful 🙂

Fortunately I should be second on the list tomorrow morning. After surgeon has had his first whisky of the day to steady his hand

[i]Stoner - Member
Doing under local so I'm expecting something more agricultural involving a metal file and a stapler. [/i]

Have you considered a prosthetic replacement?
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Still, your injury doesn't appear to have impaired your ability to type 😐

I hope you feel better soon.

Ring block was mentioned

Fortunately I should be second on the list tomorrow morning. After surgeon has had his first whisky of the day to steady his hand

Is it a hand list, or a general trauma list?

Not sure. I think it's general as I'll get bumped if an emergency comes in. There is a kid with a "simple" op in front of me

V good scaredy!

[i]Stoner - Member
Fortunately I should be second on the list tomorrow morning. After surgeon has had his first whisky of the day to steady his hand [/I]

If this is the fellow, you might want a second opinion

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Time to start stocking up on grip shift

Some handy tips* here for you

https://hackaday.com/tag/finger/

...and a list of the more famous fellow sub-optimal digit bearers you can now claim affinity with

http://www.who2.com/list/celebs-missing-fingers/

Heal fast tall one and don't be such a numpty in the future!

*oh yes, intended 😀

Pffft, as a singlespeeder at least I'm covered

Wild guess: you were captured by the French at Agincourt?

Blimey, comrade - heal up fast! 🙂

as a singlespeeder

Do you get to keep the remaining bit of bone once they've whipped it off? I'm sure with some imagination it could be put to amusing use 😀

Cheers cheesy, comrade

There will be much hacking. And frightening my boys on Halloween

Fortunately I should be second on the list tomorrow morning. After surgeon has had his first whisky of the day to steady his hand

I remember sitting in front of a surgeon at Lords on a Saturday once, who after recalling the quite extraordinary quantity of alcohol he had consumed, quite calmly slurred than he would be operating at 8 the following morning.

I opened the thread hours ago but have only just got the courage to return, I am quite squeemish at stuff like this (Freudian fear of castration I was once told 😐 ) Makes me feel unwell just looking at the x-rays. Rather you than me though 😀

Anyway healing vibes and perhaps see you in 3 weeks. Feel free not to show off the injury.

Sunday surgery ? 7 day NHS !

Will have to swap to shooting left handed bow.

I was stunned how much better I was shooting left handed (I wan't too shabby right handed). Turns out I have a very strong eye dominance. Had a lesson at Wisley and the guy picked it up very quickly.

Look on the bright side, those really hard to reach pugs up your nose just got a whole lot easier to pick.

Stoner, you don't ride fixed gear, by any chance, do you?

Some handy tips* here for you

https://hackaday.com/tag/finger/

Pfft! No [url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5005118/Computer-programmer-from-Finland-has-lost-finger-replaced-with-USB-drive.html ]USB drive[/url]. Excel Everywhere...

Finger in the fixed transmissions? Or just the lure of the shiny spinning sharp thing with the finger tractor beam?

Heal fast.

as a singlespeeder

Anything to save a bit of weight.
You'll be championing 1x9 3/4 next...

I'm all about the cloud storage now so USB no use. But I like the idea of a rfid fingertip.

Jamba, oddly I'm left eye dominant but have always shot rifle, shotgun and latterly archery tight handed. I only took up archery last autumn, so making the change will be fun and not impossible.
Very gd dkny, just got that 🙂

I always stop grating the last bit of cheese just before my fingers come into contact with the grater.
You, my frind appear to have ever so slightlly misjudged the end of the cheese for the begining of your finger tip and just carried on, willy nilly till there was bone gratings in your bowl of cheese.

I had a woodworking friend who did the same on a bench saw. I used to pull splinters and on the odd occaision squeeze spots for him , due to his lack digits.

They can do wonderful things with prosthetics now you know

HTH

meh - i still have that bit of finger .... but i cant feel anything in it.

sliced in deep when cutting open an unriped avocado with a less than razor sharp knife.....

the cut healed but i no longer feel that finger - might as well look like yours.

You have another 9 shots at it at least ! -at least you should as i dont think your from brechin - in which case you would have 10 more shots 😀

Fictional hero FRODO BAGGINS wins fame but drops a digit in the course of J.R.R. Tolkien‘s trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Small but plucky, Frodo is chosen to carry the ring of power sought by the evil lord Sauron. All’s well that ends well: in the book’s final chapters, a minstrel sings of[b] “Frodo of the Nine Fingers and the Ring of Doom.”[/b]

From henceforth I shall be known as Frodo

"Small but plucky,"

Not even close.

Noy sure why this sprang to mind

On the bright side, cutting your fingernails should be 10? quicker now.

That's if you can be trusted with something sharp near your fingertips?

Maybe just ask for a discount at the local nail bar?..

Perhaps Dave* would be more appropriate than Frodo?

*as in Allen

or telly savalas..... he was missing his left index finger tip as well ....

Archery problem solved.....

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From henceforth I shall be known as Frodo

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I did that back in January on my daughters birthday, she wasn't impressed, neither was her mother.
put my finger in between the chain and front ring of my track bike.
Fortunately i kept the bit of bone and it's all healed except for a bit of nerve damage around the tip of my finger.

Great surgery team. Bish bosh, 40mins.
That ring block worked a treat, even while they were trimming the bone 😉

Now I get hospital lunch. Whoohoo

Cheers guys for keeping it light last night.

Stumpy Stoner

I was stunned how much better I was shooting left handed (I wan't too shabby right handed). Turns out I have a very strong eye dominance. Had a lesson at Wisley and the guy picked it up very quickly.

Jamba, oddly I'm left eye dominant but have always shot rifle, shotgun and latterly archery tight handed.

It's eye dominance which dictates which way round you should shoot (a bow), not hand. So if it's any comfort, you've been taught incorrectly thus far and can now look forward to doing it properly. I'll wager your game actually improves after this.

If you're shooting wrong-handed (well, -eyed) then you're sighting across the arrow at an angle rather than straight down it and it throws off your aim. I'm fully left-dominant (hand, foot, eye) but learned to shoot right-handed as that was the only kit available. By the time I got access to a left-handed bow I was so used to a RH-er that I couldn't use it; it felt unnatural and I had little compelling reason to re-learn everything. In the end I was taught to draw as normal with both eyes open, but close my left momentarily to fine-tune my lateral aim before loosing.

On the downside of course, unless you're shooting longbow, flatbow or one of those crappy fibreglass training bows, you're gonna need a new bow.

Great surgery team. Bish bosh, 40mins.

What did they do with the other 33.3% of your gravel bike? 😆

I don't shoot using my dominant eye! That would be stupid.

I have to get my brain to use the correct image. In itself it's not a major problem. After all I have a couple of cadet international caps for full bore.

I convinced my coaches to let me shoot right handed and tbf its been fine, I'm not a bad shot at all. But I'll enjoy taking the opportunity to learn to shoot the other hand. And sticking to recurve. Compound is to archery as Road time trial is to biking: Crap. 😉

Only need a new ilf riser really. And tab 😉

Recurve is the one true way, of course. (-:

Dunno about guns, I've shot a few at various times over the years but really know very little indeed about them beyond which end is the loud bit and not to shoot a side-eject shotgun left-handed.

Glad to hear the surgery went well, will you now reveal to us the before and after shots? And how the stump came to be in the 1st place?

Ring blocks? The experience I had of having a ring block was of slow torture. Far worse than any broken finger I've had for pain, but I had to have this one because the finger needed proper straightening.

Once in it was fantastically effective; putting it in gave me a whitey.

Did I get a bad'un.

I was stunned how much better I was shooting left handed (I wan't too shabby right handed). Turns out I have a very strong eye dominance. Had a lesson at Wisley and the guy picked it up very quickly.

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Jamba, oddly I'm left eye dominant but have always shot rifle, shotgun and latterly archery tight handed.
It's eye dominance which dictates which way round you should shoot (a bow), not hand. So if it's any comfort, you've been taught incorrectly thus far and can now look forward to doing it properly. I'll wager your game actually improves after this.

If you're shooting wrong-handed (well, -eyed) then you're sighting across the arrow at an angle rather than straight down it and it throws off your aim. I'm fully left-dominant (hand, foot, eye) but learned to shoot right-handed as that was the only kit available. By the time I got access to a left-handed bow I was so used to a RH-er that I couldn't use it; it felt unnatural and I had little compelling reason to re-learn everything. In the end I was taught to draw as normal with both eyes open, but close my left momentarily to fine-tune my lateral aim before loosing.

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I didnt get a photo of the finger as it was pretty gruesome. But earlier Mrs Stoner mentioned that my bro had kindly "cleaned up the mess" as she couldnt face it. Good lad got a photo before it went to the bin.

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First night back at the pub and got royally ribbed for stupidity.
actually I wont post it.
link here 🙂
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Oft, that was a good job you did of that. For some reason I was expecting a much smaller stump....

Should of got it pickled and stored for prosperity.

Next time someone says "can I have a hand..." you can say "will that do instead?"

Or even, if someone says "put your finger on that for a second" you can easily oblige without having to stop whatever else you're doing...

I think that stub could be put on the donor list, even though it is not a toe! 😆

http://www.****/news/article-2404293/Downtown-Hotels-Sourtoe-Cocktail-patron-swallows-amputated-toe-500.html

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FFS! 😀

On a plus note you had nice clean finger nails!
Why didn't you take the missing bit to A&E with you out of interest?

Is that the butchers shop in the league of gentlemen? 🙂

I hope you've kept it.
You could build your own wasp factory around that.
Keep the kids entertained all summer long.

you could have bumped the price up a bit Jamie!

Having seen what was left behind, and the manner in which the tip was amputated, I assumed it wasnt worth ferreting around in the oily chain for mangled spare parts, especially while I was applying C&E to my stump and gently asking mrs Stoner, in a calm and measured manner, if she wouldnt mind running me into Worcester A&E if she had a moment to spare...

Sorry for asking a stupid Q, but I've read this thread and no idea what you actually did to lose your finer end unless i've missed it. Finger in disk?

You'll be wanting a prosthetic for the chainsaw, they really aren't left handed and none of the manufacturers caters for wrong handers.

Bit of alkythene pipe gaffer taped on the stump should do the job.

I didn't look - thanks for not posting 😯

Ouch. Nicely done. My brother did something similar about 40 years ago when he was out ploughing. Tractor was playing up and he went around poking various bits and it somehow started up when his finger was on the fan belt. Almost identical cut to yours. I can still see the stump in a paper tissue my dad bought home "in case they could sew it back on" 🙂

On the plus side you will be able to do a great party trick by making it look like you are picking your nose really really deeply

You are going to preserve it I assume.

[url= http://www.cellpath.co.uk/products/transport/pre-filled-pots.html?dir=desc&mode=list&order=position ]Formalin pots[/url]

What a conversation piece.

But seriously healing vibes.....

Okay, I've skim-read this thread a number of times and I can't find the culprit named anywhere.

Wot done it, guv'na...?

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Thanks. Great summary.

Bugger again.
I've just checked my health and life insurance and it turns out I needed to have lost both hands in one go to qualify for a new bike 🙁

I'd better make a decent job of it next time.

That picture is ok. I've got a sequence of Tim K's finger healing that I use in lectures about root fillings.

hah! I remember TimK's fingers! How long ago was that?

2007? It features in a 2008 PowerPoint - I've just checked!

His was good, yours is better 🙂

I could take pics if you like 🙂

Oops, oiling chain with engine running?

Great picture from your bro! Thought he might have popped it in a little jar of grim for you for bragging rights

Yes please 🙂

His showed how the body naturally protects connective tissue and bone by growing epithelium over it. I suspect your's might already be closed. You've probably got my email from one of Brant's......

Have you had a peek under the bandages yet?

Any photos of a comedically large finger bandage we can laugh at?

I darent open up as there is no way Im as clean as the op theatre 🙂

I have to drop into the clinic in France in a week's time to check there's no infection etc.

paul - do you have the battlecat?

Anyway, I'm afraid they've covered all the goodies and closed the stump.

No, I've got the reiver. Hang on, I reckon I can mail you. Always keen to see photos 😉

You're an idiot.

Hope it gets better soon 😀

You're an idiot.

Hope it gets better soon

He's been an idiot for years. It shows no sign of improvement.

😉

Welcome to the club.
Mine also motorcycle. Motorcycle/roadworks/interface to be exact.

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I always like being in good company.