Ouch - CAUTION: Graphic Pictures

**simso** · 18th February 2007, 11:22 AM

Recieved this via mail from a mate, so I dont know whos finger it is but we always get told to take the ring of and this is the reason why

**ptc** · 18th February 2007, 11:37 AM

not much blood.

**martrix** · 18th February 2007, 11:41 AM

**Terry B** · 18th February 2007, 11:45 AM

It's called a degloving injury for good reason.

**RufflyRustic** · 18th February 2007, 12:21 PM

....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.

**meerkat** · 18th February 2007, 01:47 PM

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.

**journeyman Mick** · 18th February 2007, 02:31 PM

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

**fred.n** · 18th February 2007, 03:50 PM

Now thats gotta hurt

**simso** · 18th February 2007, 04:06 PM

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

**Tonyz** · 18th February 2007, 04:41 PM

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

Tony

**Skew ChiDAMN!!** · 18th February 2007, 05:54 PM

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.

**Shedhand** · 18th February 2007, 07:37 PM

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.

**Waldo** · 18th February 2007, 07:52 PM

Nothing more be said.

**Toolin Around** · 18th February 2007, 09:17 PM

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.

**Bob38S** · 19th February 2007, 10:33 AM

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

Full recovery?
Partial loss of feeling/movement?

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