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SMASHED FINGER THREAD REDO LOST IN THE CRASH OF '22

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Don't scroll any lower if finger meat makes you sick to your stomach, or do. But you've been warned. :flipoff2:

So evidently my smashed finger thread bit the dust when the place crashed. I thought about just forgetting about it, but wheres the fun in that. Plus a buddy sent me something that needs its time of fame on the internet.

I wanted to have this thread so I could monitor the healing, have all the pics in one place and show the progress and set backs. quick back story then the pics. I bought a square body 3+3 Pumpkin Spice Cummins Swapped Square Body about the same time a cummins parts truck came about. MattS had a minor fire incident that more or less ruined the old dodge, so I snagged it up to use the drivetrain. It came with a big ol v-plow, I think 9'2''. I put the plow on fbmp and within a few weeks a buyer popped up. 2130hrs on 11/27/22 (a satruday night) he came to get it. After sitting it on the trailer I tried to move it with my hands, about the same time it slid on the pallet and opened up, crushing my fingers between the cutting edge and the trailer. (trailer deck is expanded metal:eek:).



A quick visit to my primary doc, she sent me on to the city doc/er where I got 6 stitches in my ring finger (it was smashed open) and 20 stitches in my middle finger. (it was smashed and sliced open).

the plow:

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So about that buddy, MattS is a solid dude. some of us already knew that, but I've learned it over the last couple years. He warned me in another thread something was coming, but to be honest I kind of forgot. So today the brown bus shows up with this box and Im racking my brain trying to think of what I ordered. I didnt recognize the shipper, though I should have :laughing:. Grab a knife and get it open and theres this big pink hunk of steel. I thought to myself wtf is this? Then I grabbed it up out of there and got the freaking glitter all over myself and then realized who sent it! :lmao: He and his beautiful helper painted it special just for me then slathered it in shiny glitter! Back of the helpers head redacted for privacy........:laughing:


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So the good news is that there were no broken bones. But come to find out, I lost 1/4''ish of the bone on that finger. fun. I have bcbs for er visits and a $400 copay. All of my follow ups are with my direct care doc, who I get to see for my $75/month membership. Plus supplies I assume. The other and maybe best case is that my doc is right behind my business, so its very easy and convenient to see her! Except yesterday I walked in and they announced the hot water heater wasnt working :eek: (I own the building). So after my checkup I had to deal with that. :laughing:
 
The worst I've done. Somehow got my finger inside a seized up front outer u joint and it freed up with a bang.
 

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Pics of the Dr.?
check out holton direct care dot com. Im not linking/posting her here. :flipoff2: hell maybe one of you is close enough you'll want to sign up. she's plenty attractive. but.......as Ive said elsewhere on this board, I love her for another reason.
 
4 week update. Still more pain than I can manage without some ibuprofen. Really questioning my decision to not go see a hand specialist. Might go do that after year end. That finger nail is really going to be a pita.

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Your kinda milking this thing
maybe. but I don't think so. I never take pills, outside of allergy meds for a month in the fall. I have a decent pain tolerance, but this shit hurts. weirdly the ring finger hurts more than the one that got shortened. doc says the nerves are f'd in there. I am down to just one round of ibu about supper time. if that's milking it so be it. the bandaid on the ring finger is to prevent it from being touched by the middle finger, piss shivers otherwise.

oh, and "you're" :flipoff2:
 
Hurting the digits always concerns me the most, I guess. I'm always careful where I put them when fawking with shit, it doesn't matter if what I'm doing really as I've hurt my fingers doing easy things too. Worst thing that ever happened to my fingers was way back in the early 80's. I worked at a L&G equipment dealership as a technician. We sharpened chain saw chains as well as serviced saws. I followed what the other tech there did as for as cleaning the chains on a wire wheel machine there. Well, this wire wheel machine was around an 8" wire wheel driven by a dual belt 220V electric motor. One time I was cleaning a chain it got caught up in the wire wheel and wrapped itself around it pulling a couple of my fingers into it. I actually stopped the motor from spinning when this happened. The other tech ran over and unplugged the motor and got my fingers out of it. I was very lucky and it took a few years for all that to heal up. I watch what I do with my fingers from that day forward on everything I do. Specially now as I can't afford to lose anymore body parts.

Good luck with your healing process as it looks like that really hurts badly.
 
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