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[chippy1970]

Silly sod I am, while at work yesterday I tried to cut my ring finger off with a Stanley knife

I was trimming off some plasterboard when God knows what happened but I managed to slip with a brand new blade in the knife and hacked the top of my finger off nearly. So yesterday was spent in Epsom hospital then I had to go upto Chelsea and Westminster hospital so the acute plastic surgeon could take a look. Then today after 39 years on this planet I had my very first and hopefully last operation. I had cut completely through 2 nerves either side of the finger and my tendon which all had to be micro stitched back together.

I doubt anyone from either hospital is on here but you never know, just to say a massive thank you to everyone involved.

ps: that general anaesthetic sucks i felt like crap when i came around :lol:


Looks like my router table build will be put on hold for awhile

oh and if you see someone at the D&M tool show tomorrow with an arm in a sling that will be me :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[superunknown]

Sounds nasty, hope your feeling ok, and I thank you for the lack of photo's.

 

[big soft moose]

ouch - well you arent the first and you wont be the last so dont feel too bad about it

check out what tom did to himself with a router table fort example, or the occasion i tried to stick a broken turning gouge through the palm of my hand

 

[Sportique]

Ooh nasty one that.

Hope you make a good recovery.

Dave

 

[Paul.J]

Hope it heals up quick for you.
I managed to put a Stanley blade in my wrist while i was cutting up cardboard boxes at work about twenty years ago,i'd also just changed the blade and it went right in,still don't know how i managed to do it :?
I also had to have micro surgery and spend the night in hospital,the week before Christmas too.Luckily i'd just missed the main artery :shock:

 

[worsley947]

Chippy hope you didn't damage the new blade did you as that would have been a waste lol
No seriously hope it heals soon and works as it should

 

[Karl]

Ouch - sounds painful. No pics please - at least, put a warning if you load any....

Hope it doesn't affect you with work too much. Although, personally, i'd be pretty glad of a few days/weeks off at the mo :lol:

Cheers

Karl

 

[dickm]

Been there, done that - twice . Hope it heals up as well as mine seem to have.

But interested that you say you felt like s**t after the anaesthetic. The one thing I noticed after my last bout of hand surgery was how the anaesthetic didn't leave me feeling lousy this time. Wonder what they used?

 

[mailee]

Ouch! I feel for you. Hope it heals ok soon. I am the same when it dcomes to sharp blades. No matter how many power tools I use it is always the hand tools I cut myself with. :roll: I guess I just respect the power tools and use the hand tools with gay abandon. :lol:

 

[Paul Chapman]

Hope it heals soon.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[chippy1970]

cheers guys. Im not sure what anaesthetic they used i know they kept adding anti sickness drugs. It just felt like a bad hangover without the headache , it took me a long time to come around too , I remember them trying to get me up and about and i just wanted to stay asleep lol. Bit worried about work as im self employed also we are off to Disney Orlando in December so hope im ok by then.

Oh and to top it off yesterday i managed to drive my van home before getting my wife to run me to Chelsea & westminster , while in the van on the m25 a stone cracked my windscreen, just call me mr lucky lol

Oh there wont be any pics by the way its all covered up now,

Chris

 

[chippy1970]

just found out this morning that I will be in a cast for 3 months and i cant work my wife asked the consultant after the operation. before they said worst case scenario 3 months so it looks like im just unlucky.

Hopefully money wise we will survive but im more annoyed that we are going to disney and i bet i wont be able to ride any coasters.

If anyone here has had similar surgery please let me know how you got on it might cheer me up.

 

[Dibs-h]

just found out this morning that I will be in a cast for 3 months and i cant work my wife asked the consultant after the operation. before they said worst case scenario 3 months so it looks like im just unlucky.

Hopefully money wise we will survive but im more annoyed that we are going to disney and i bet i wont be able to ride any coasters.

If anyone here has had similar surgery please let me know how you got on it might cheer me up.

Sorry to hear about your accident. I'm beginning to suspect that if you aren't generally accident prone - it'll catch up eventually. :wink: Or it certainly feels like that for me.

When I ran the handsaw thru my hand just in the crease below the index finger, severing the outer nerve and artery, thankfully no tendon - I ended up in A&E and Plastics. Coming round from the op was ok from a sickness perspective (i.e. lack of), but my hand lit up like a firework display in terms of pain.

They'd applied a tourniquet for over an hour at the upper arm to give them a "blood free" working area and obviously released it before I got brought round.

It's been almost 8 weeks since and whilst the scars virtually invisible - the area around the site is still a little puffy (or whatever the technical term is), but the feeling is coming back and I have an acceptable level of feeling on the inside (palm side) of the digit closest to the palm. Hopefully by Xmas I should have it back in the fingertip.

It isn't and may never be like it was - but I can at least tell if something is touching that area - whereas before you could have probably stubbed a cig out on it and I wouldn't have known! :shock:

Hope it all gets well.

Dibs.

At some point you'll get little 'lectric shocks down the finger - I still get them and they're nothing to worry about!

 

[woodbloke]

Hope you're better soon. No pics, but the description's pretty graphic! 8) - Rob

 

[Racers]

Hi. Chippy

I feel for you, I took I nice slice off the side of the tip of my left index finger with a stanley knife, it was the last cut I was doing! and I was not using a saftey rule!

Get well soon.

Pete

 

[Harbo]

It's all too easily done - hope you all make speedy recoveries?

I was routing some small pieces today with front and back stops, feather boards top and front and push sticks - still made me cringe!
Great relief when I'd finished - perhaps fear is a good thing?


Rod

 

[Dibs-h]

Forgot to say - you'll soon discover just how much of the world is not designed for one handed folk! shock:

Pee'd me right off. :

 

[promhandicam]

Presumably it is your left hand and you are right handed, or vice versa. If so then you should still be able to work. When I broke my thumb by hitting it with a hammer (not on purpose I hasten to add) I asked when they put the plaster on if they could do it so I could still hold a nail. The Dr. wasn't impressed and I think deliberately did it so that there was no way I could hold anything - had to finish the job by holding the nails between my index and middle fingers :lol:

All the best,

Steve

 

[chippy1970]

Presumably it is your left hand and you are right handed, or vice versa. If so then you should still be able to work. When I broke my thumb by hitting it with a hammer (not on purpose I hasten to add) I asked when they put the plaster on if they could do it so I could still hold a nail. The Dr. wasn't impressed and I think deliberately did it so that there was no way I could hold anything - had to finish the job by holding the nails between my index and middle fingers :lol:

All the best,

Steve

im right handed luckily but I think they are more cautious with tendon injuries as it can snap again if you dont heal it properly. I will know more tomorrow i have my first appointment back at chelsea and westminster tomorrow gotta jump on the tube up there should be fun not

 

[BradNaylor]

General anaesthetic?

My God, you're soft down south! When I chopped my thumb off three years ago on my table saw I had to to have two hour-long operations under a local anaesthetic only. Trying to sell the surgeon a new kitchen while he's attempting to sew your thumb back on is a slightly surreal experience. *

I then had to repeat the exercise a couple of days later when he realised it hadn't worked.

I drew the line at them chopping my big toe off and making me a new thumb out of it... :shock:



* I did OK though, because one of the theatre nurses commissioned me to make her a Belfast sink unit a few weeks later! :lol: