Thread: Ouch - CAUTION: Graphic Pictures

not much blood.

It's called a degloving injury for good reason.

....and the reason why HWMNBO can't remember where his wedding ring is (I do though ) and why I no longer where my wedding rings on the weekend or when accompanying him on truck trips where even getting out of the truck can cause this terrible injury.

I hope he heals quickly.

I nearly lost mine when I was in the Navy while handling rope, I'm soooo glad that never happened to me.

I'm assuming it was "fixed" up.

Besides for a few dinners in the first few months of our marriage I haven't worn my wedding ring since our honeymoon, almost ten years ago. Didn't want to end up like the picture (or worse )

Mick

Now thats gotta hurt

Yeh when I first saw it, it was like so wheres the ring. And then I saw it tucked up under the skin there. Just gos to show how easy it is to do, So many times ive done a job and felt my ring catch on something and bite in, but never like that. I dropped a paver on a toe a while back and split it to the bone and they were saying when they were patching me up, making conversation that the old ring finger happens daily in most hospitals. Ewwww not nice
Steve

My wedding ring saved me loosing 3 fingers a few years back, only lost 2

Tony

I was warned off wearing a ring when I did some work as a rigger in my early married days. Of course, SWMBO went and got all teary eyed over my refusal to wear it to work and made my life a misery. (Sure, I could have taken it off once at work but then I'd probably have lost it. Better left at home in the first place!) Still, some times you just have to compromise, so I took another rigger's advice and cut through the bottom half with a jeweller's blade. Which didn't exactly appease her high'n'mightiness either.

Thank God I did, though! I've had a few incidents since where it was torn off my finger... and hurt like hell! But nowhere near as bad as it'd have hurt to have it tear my finger off instead.

Don't have the ring (or that SWMBO) anymore... it was severely chewed when I put my hand into a thicknesser to clear out a jam. I hadn't realised that the belt had broken and the thicknesser head was still freewheeling at a fairly high speed.

ex-swmbo is outside....vomiting.... now THAT is what I call shed damage....wonder who it was? Cursing the day he got married I bet.

Nothing more be said.

Once was throwing a bunch of recycled wood into a dumpster. The dumpster was a fair distance away to so I had to wind up pretty good to get them in. Picked up a fairly long and heavy piece with nail heads sticking out every where (you can see where this is going ). Needed both hands to throw this one. Sure enough one of the nail heads hooked onto the ring. No damage but it must have looked pretty funny as I went with it for a couple feet.

To those familiar with this sort of injury -- what is the general prognosis?

Full recovery?
Partial loss of feeling/movement?