Here’s my finger today, day 32.
Ahh! That’s a good sign! If the blackened skin I saw in your last picture has sloughed off, then you’re on the right track. Does your MD have you on any antibiotics just to be on the safe side? Also, one additional thought…is your tetanus booster up to date and/or did you receive one when you sought medical care?
I’m interested in seeing the progress pictures, and I’m glad it’s getting better. Keep us posted.
EDIT: You must have JUST posted that last photo. It’s looking good. The outer skin will heal in time as the layers build up. Skin grows from the inside out, so you’re definitely on the right track. Looks like your MD did a good job on the sutures!
So, how’d you do that anyway?
Hey man how did you do that to yourself?
never mind
You know the youtube of the the cop who shoots himself in the leg in front of the firearms safety class?
He’s an Einstein compared to me.
I was adjusting a commercial coffee grinder with its safety mechanism disabled.
I got a tetanus booster the night it happened, and I’ve done two complete rounds of antibiotics.
Well, hell, that was kind of… um…, not a fascinating story.
We’ll call that the “What really happened story.”
The official story should be something like, "Well, I was trying to adjust the spacing on inset manly sounding equipment - not a coffee grinder and as I was hanging upside down over a drop of 30 feet into inset something gruesome…
Well, you get the idea.
Where are you in the Black Hills?
How about if Blofeld had me hung over a crocodile tank and the coffee grinder was his way of making 007 into 006.9?
Near 44° 1’ N -103° 14’ W
Low Level Laser Therapy aka LLLT
There’s usually someone in most cities that can perform this for a small fee.
In short, LLLT speeds up wound healing.
BB- Glad to see you’re healing well. However, I’m pretty sure that’s a pecker growing out of the end of your finger.
I wouldn’t be so quick to tell the forum that something the size of a pinky finger reminds you of your private member.
In the immortal words of Eddie Murphy, “Very funny mother fu****!”
It’s not the size, but the ring that looks like the beginning of the head. Damn; we’re talking about a dick. I’m going to look at some tits.
We’ve got to shut this down before I hyperventilate. :p:p
You mean like freshly circumcised?
‘Cuz that ain’t what a fresh circumcision looks like; especially a 38 year old one.
I don’t want to talk about that no more; flashbacks.
Very cool.
I have given thought to looking at relocating to Sioux Falls; I hear tell that it is actually a fairly nice place.
Not Black Hills I know, but…
Some threads die slowly. Some self-destruct in a blinding flash of nuclear plasma.
Couldn’t have said it better.
In regards to the disrespectful member who questioned Bill Bryant for inquiring about this on a firearms forum, well, as was stated, there is certainly NOTHING wrong with asking these questions on this forum.
In fact, I have received some of THE ABSOLUTE VERY BEST INFO I have EVER received in my life, on forums like this.
MANY MANY doctors in this world just plain SUCK, and I can prove it.
Sure, there are good ones, but there are MANY bad ones.
Bill Bryant,
This is probably info you already know, but I’ll mention it anyway:
About 3 years back, I had a very similar injury on my finger such as this, and I also had another bad cut on my kneecap, which also involved nerve endings, and the loss of sensation as well.
I couldn’t feel my kneecap or my fingertip, and after a year or two of thinking the sensation was totally gone, it finally came back over time.
To this day, I have closely monitored these areas, and sensation continues to grow, slowly but surely.
My simple point being is that if sensation is going to come back, many times it is just a matter of allowing enough time pass.
At least it was your pinkie and not another more important finger! (or is the pinkie an uber important finger in the musical instrument world?) LOL.