Mitred fingers (stumps)

[Bluekingfisher]

Sounds like it will be painfull for a good while. I have a problem with my father in-law who lives next door. I'm happily working away and he'll just appear going Boo! And then says 'you must have seen me comin' He's always done it when I'm doing something safe but its not the point really. I've thought about locking the door but then I think what if something does happen and no one can get in.

How about setting out a trip wire with a warning flare #-o

I wouldn't be too happy with the "Boo" either, it would soon become a tad boring. I would politely ask him to refrain and tell him the reason why. If he persisted, a more less than subtle approach may be called for.

I'm sure you could rig up a door bell or a buzzer to sound when the door opens ! that and a big sign stating"Uninvited callers not welcome, man enjoying his own space, working inside"

 

[Crooked Tree]

I thought that everyone was taught as a child never to disturb someone operating machinery for this very reason?!

Get well soon. A good (frightening) reminder to the rest of us - I have on occasion realised after using a power tool for a while that I am not as conscious of the risk as when I started the job.

 

[dickm]

All good wishes for a speedy recovery - been there, done something similar and still got a numb end to thumb.

But on the topic of being disturbed while using machines, when I was a kid the local grocers (remember them? before supermarkets?) had a bacon slicer for slicing up the whole sides of bacon that used to hang in the shop. And as a result of an "incident", there was a large notice on it saying "Do not talk to the man on the bacon slicer".

 

[Woody Alan]

am I the only one thinking that you should actually see a doctor .... surely you need to be taking something to stop infection

No you're not, I wouldn't take the word of a local GP about anything, friend or not, Get to A & E, where they deal with these things all the time.
I once hacked a scalpel into the side of my forefinger to the bone about 0.5 of a second after I realised what I was doing was stupid but couldn't stop myself in time. I went to the local GP dripping blood in the surgery, he put on a bandaid which was soaked in a microsecond, I had cut the artery in the finger and to this day it goes white and loses feeling when a bit cold, I should have gone to A & E and won't make the same mistake again.

Alan

 

[Lons]

Having a wife and daughter both nurses who have served their fair share on A&E, I'd second what Alan says and have it looked at.
There are apparently many examples of avoidable damage and infections caused by not treating wounds correctly in the first instance.

I have two friends both GPs and I wouldn't trust either. With all due respect, they are very much "jack of all trades" and much of their information comes from a quick look in the reference book or internet.

My niece is a GP also but she's different of course :lol:

Bob

 

[jimi43]

My son cut his hand on a kitchen knife recently...yes it bled but not that badly...but he had severed a tendon and they had to do a 3 hour operation at a specialist hospital and he is off work for 12 weeks to ensure it heals back to near normal.

Clearly..he would not have recovered full use of his finger had he not done so.

A lesson for us all.

Jim

 

[sometimewoodworker]

My first, and only, major woodworking injury about 30 years ago was to plane the top of my index finger down to the bone. The wood I was pushing through my 6" planer slipped, I felt a bang and knew it was bad.

The only good thing was that my local A&E was closed so I was taken to the top UK neurosurgery hospital, the next closest. They did a flesh transplant. I now have about 85% of feeling in that part and the strangest half and half fingerprint.

At the time I knew nothing about safety. I thought I could keep the soft pink bits away from the sharp moving metal. I learned to make sure that when slips happen the pink bits don't touch the spinning bits.