Isaac nearly lost a finger.

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Isaac nearly lost a finger.

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This is not for the squeamish.

I should have pointed out what was on Isaac's arm and hand in the "Brand New Grandaughter" thread.

He tried to cut his right pinkie off about a month ago. He cut through both tendons, both blood vessels, and both nerves and to the bone. The ER put a dozen or so stitches in it to keep it together and five in his ring finger.

The hand specialist opened it back up about 3 days later.
It required a 3 hour surgery to reattach tendons and set in protein tubes to direct the nerves where to grow. Doc said he was lucky that he had some random blood supply on back of finger that he hadnt seen on a pinkie before or he would have lost it since he cut both main blood supplies.

After ER
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After Surgery
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Lots of blood pooled in surface mad it look awful a couple weeks after surgery. Stitches running up both sides were the only thing holding the black shell of dead skin on.
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Since the last photos the skin out past last joint all peeled off and finger looks good. They removed stitches and trimmed most of black off leaving a dime size circle that was going to leave too deep of an open wound. However, it was annoying as heck and he removed it last night leaving a nasty wound.
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Doc says its healing good and PT says he's doing well. The danger is doing too much and tearing tendon or doing too little and allowing the two to scar together since he cut them in the worst possible spot, where they cross.

He has to wear that brace for another week. He takes it off to do PT every 2 hours. Will be 3 more months of PT. Maybe a year before he can feel finger at tip. Will never be 100%.

He's worried that he can't shoot a shotgun this season due to docs restrictions and afraid he can't physically do it. Not to mention, he cant feel enough to know if he's hurting it. The daughter will likely take his mind off of it fir a while.

I may be able to rig up bipod and let him shoot with one hand lefthanded, but it will require an almost perfect setup to avoid requiring much movement. The red dot should help.
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Dang. So how did he cut it?
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Ouch, in many ways, and glad he's even got a finger, after seeing those pics :shock:

I'm sure when Doc give's him the o.k.(and I even would listen to Doc on this one) I'm sure he'll adapt and all will be well with the shootin' :thumbup:

Here's to a speedy recovery :cheers:
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Man that looks rough! Glad to hear the drs did a good job on the repairs

My wife got into a table saw on her finger tip. She only has a small scar. She has nerve damage but had adjusted to using that finger since it’s minimal damage.
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OLE RASPY wrote: March 14th, 2018, 6:33 am Dang. So how did he cut it?

It was one of those learn it the hard way lessons that he doesn't even like to tell because he felt so dumb afterwards.
Never try to stab a steak knife into a cutting board with so much force that you can't hang onto the handle. Good thing it wasn't a sharp knife.
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My old man used to make knives out of the big used hacksaw blades the railroad used to cut rail with. Showing off and bragging how he could stab it through a silver dollar he did the same thing to his hand, it did go all the way through a silver dollar about a quarter of an inch sticking through. I don't believe he ever did it twice..... :o
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owww! Hope it continues to get better. A common occurrence in domestic stabbings (how can a stabbing be called "domestic"?) with kitchen knives is the stabber's hand often has knife wounds from knife slippage. That's one reason knives used defensively or offensively should have either finger/thumb rings, hilts or sufficient indentation (finger of thumb slot) to prevent the user's hand from sliding off the handle onto the blade.
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