fingers.

[DavidG]

All still intact.

Left little finger a bit bent from a motorcycle stack many years ago.

Left pointer has a couple of scars on it. One from bullet shrapnel, one from a gouge, and several, near the tip, from knives.

Thumbs have arthritis.

Scars on both wrists from carpel tunnel operations.

So far I have avoided a size reduction.

[swiftden]

Left little finger, lost two joints but kept the knuckle. Took it off with a jointer so to speak.
Lost grip in that hand id say about 50%. seems to be alot weaker.

[rhancock]

10/10 for me, but I used to know a painter who only had about 6 fingers in total. Before he was a painter, he was a butcher, but he stopped after he lost too many fingers.

And I had a diabetic uncle who didn't feel the nail he used to nail his thumb to the fence until he tried to walk away...

[rrich]

Not really missing or maimed. I dropped a cabinet on my Los Angeles driving finger. (Similar to your Sydney driving finger but on the other hand.) I did break the bone and required 7 stitches to close the wound. The only lasting damage is the loss of the sense of touch at the very tip of the finger.

[Barry_White]

Still got all ten after 54 years of using machinery. Never really did any damage to anything except when I was about ten I put a garden fork through my foot.

[munruben]

Still got all mine thankfully but had a few near misses.

[flynnsart]

Well, I have just come home from Toowoomba hospital, left hubby there in the orthopedic ward. He put his hand on the table saw blade on Sunday and came very close to severing his right index finger.

Kingaroy hospital didnt want to touch it, and Toowoomba was too busy on Sunday to take him, so took him up on Monday morning. He had an op on it last night and they put a plate or pin in it.The saw cut a big chunk out of his finger and cut most of the way through the bone, the nerves have been severed on the leading edge of his finger. (I do have a pic, but dont want to make anyone ill. ) They are going to have another look at it tomorow, hopefully it is sitting right and he wont have to go back in to get it redone.

I was only reading excerpts out of this thread to him a couple of days ago. He is not even sure how he did it, or why he put his hand there.

I am not looking forward to the next weeks/months till he has use of his hand again. Male patients

Donna

Donna

[wheelinround]

Well, I have just come home from Toowoomba hospital, left hubby there in the orthopedic ward. He put his hand on the table saw blade on Sunday and came very close to severing his right index finger.

Kingaroy hospital didnt want to touch it, and Toowoomba was too busy on Sunday to take him, so took him up on Monday morning. He had an op on it last night and they put a plate or pin in it.The saw cut a big chunk out of his finger and cut most of the way through the bone, the nerves have been severed on the leading edge of his finger. (I do have a pic, but dont want to make anyone ill. ) They are going to have another look at it tomorow, hopefully it is sitting right and he wont have to go back in to get it redone.

I was only reading excerpts out of this thread to him a couple of days ago. He is not even sure how he did it, or why he put his hand there.

I am not looking forward to the next weeks/months till he has use of his hand again. Male patients

Donna

Donna is this another forumite whos suffered please surley not
Keep up the good spirits and return soon

Ray

[ss_11000]

donna, no pic means it didnt happen ( in other words, just post it anyway )

hope your hubby heals up well

[Wild Dingo]

donna, no pic means it didnt happen ( in other words, just post it anyway )

hope your hubby heals up well

Well... I know when I posted blow by blow pics of the day the forstner bit decided to chomp my finger all people did was whinge and complain and now yer askin for pics?? flamin young fellas

Still got all 10 but the munched one still isnt working cant bend from the second knuckle any more and a lump coming out the side yeah rather interesting eh? doesnt hurt till I touch it either

Had near misses on the bandsaw the table saw the router table and the jointer... missus would rather I became a dark sider still some risk of damage but not THE major risk that the machines + clutsy me presents

BUT I WONT!! I refuse to give in to the dark side!! NO I WONT!!! machines machines I wubs me machines... so much so Im thinkin of gettin more hahahahehehe

[flynnsart]

read your posts out to hubby and made him chuckle, said he feels better already.

Donna

[flynnsart]

Well just got back from Toowoomba again. They took the cast off and put a finger splint on. Will be having a bone graft when the wound has healed. Here is a photo of the exray after they put the pin (looks like wire)in.

[27saxophone]

It still happens. Bloke at work has 8 and 2 halves.
"How'd you do it?" we asked one day.
"Lost this one in a glass stuffer" (a machine that uses a very powerful Archimedes screw to force chopped glass strands into a plastic extruder).
"What about the other one?"
"Well, they were doing the investigation, and they asked me to show them what I'd done. So I put my hand in the stuffer ..."

[azza_1980]

the closest i got was was down to the fingernail on my left middle finger. That was enough of a scare for me so now im extra careful. And also having to bag someone elses fingers makes you a bit more careful too.

[artme]

Got all mine but had a couple of close shaves due to carelessness.
All fingers have interesting histories. Little finger on right hand was bitten by a mongoose!