Thread: Not Happy

Jeez not good mate. Losing the feeling in a finger is really bad - sorry to hear about that.

Makes me think again how lucky I was when I fell head first through a plate glass door last year - 27 stitches but all surface stuff - nothing major cut.

How did your incident happen?

Ouch and it didn't happen without pics

Hope you're feeling better soon Scott

Sorry to hear that. Been there done that, just not with glass. The time will go real quick, as will learning to wipe your posterior with your right hand. Make sure you do just what the hand therapist and surgeon say so you minimise tendon scarring and limited motion.

Fruit! Or words to that effect. Look after yourself. I guess we could send you all our woodwork and woodturning DVDs. And instruction books maybe. You can tell us what we are suposed to be doing.

Sorry to hear about your hand. I also emphasise doing all what the Docs tell you for a successful recuperation
My sister has a good friend who was a mad keen needle crafter. She was helping her husband to cut a sheet of something with a circular saw. You guessed it....hubby took the fingers off both her hands!!!! She was told that the job of sewing the didgets on may not be too successful. She took every opportunity as soon as she could to start sewing again. The upshot of the saga was that after about a year or so she had pretty well all her movement a feeling back in her fingers. OHHHH just thinking about the story gives me the willys.
I hope you will be "back on deck" soon. Maybe some members who are close can rally around and cheer you up.
I just thought, a bloke I know, had something wrong with the tendons in his fingers and part of his therapy was to put rubber bands across his fingers and then extend the fingers under the tension of the rubber bands to help with his recovery.

Scott, sorry to hear about your hand, hope all goes well with recovery. I mutilated my right hand 59 years ago, no micro surgery back then, lucky I still have it, 2 joints gone on index, stiff thumb,2 fingers with permanent bend, no felling in the 5th, but I still love woodworking. All the best John.

Thanks for all the kind words everyone, means a great deal. You'll be amazed at how this happened however I'd just heated up some milo + milk in a largish glass cup and quite simply the jug exploded in my hand, I guess from the heat. Didn't have the presence of mind to take a pic of the wound but got this one in ED after it was wrapped up by the doc. You can see some dried up blood from the spurt.

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Already seen the hand therapist, under no circumstances can I extend my fingers but I'm ok to flex. And by the way it hurts like stink atm.

Originally Posted by chambezio

Sorry to hear about your hand. I also emphasise doing all what the Docs tell you for a successful recuperation
My sister has a good friend who was a mad keen needle crafter. She was helping her husband to cut a sheet of something with a circular saw. You guessed it....hubby took the fingers off both her hands!!!! She was told that the job of sewing the didgets on may not be too successful. She took every opportunity as soon as she could to start sewing again. The upshot of the saga was that after about a year or so she had pretty well all her movement a feeling back in her fingers. OHHHH just thinking about the story gives me the willys.

OMG! No wonder I am scared of saws. (are they still together? The hubby and wife not the fingers )

sjt

I did something similar with a butchers knife whilst dressing Kangaroos in 2010. Severed a couple of tendons and almost completely through a third, at the base of left index. Not up to your standard, but off work for 4 months.

Someone has said it already, but do exactly what the therapists and doctors tell you to do, at least until you are told you can move your fingers again. They sound like bossy old grandmas sometimes but they do know their stuff, and it will mean a difference in final recovery.


Look out for the itches under the cast and splint when you get them. It is almost enough to make you cry.


Almost 2 years on, I can still feel the tendons pull a bit if I make a tight fist or lift something really heavy.


Take it easy, do what the saw bones tell you to do and stay positive. Negativity is an incipient thing that can lead to other problems.

Good luck with it.

And don't argue with the nurses they know best and you're only the patient.
Wishing you a speedy recovery

Ages ago I opened up my left pointy finger second joint to the bone taking tendon and nerves.
Was plastered for six weeks.
Doc said to retrain the nerves I needed to provide stimulus so I used
a squash ball for exercise and a tooth brush to provide stimulus to the nerves.
I also used a big sewing needle to gently scratch the dead area.
Eventually I got full movement and near full feeling back.
Good luck.

Originally Posted by A Duke

And don't argue with the nurses they know best and you're only the patient.

Had to laugh at this one, cause Scott is a nurse and I think his wife is as well.

Well I thought it sounded more sympathetic than hope to see you back in Recovery soon.
Regards

Nurses make the worst patients

Seriously, hope all goes well with your recovery