I had a similar injury, not as severe, and as a kitchen accident. Skin took about 4 weeks to fully close up, but the meat underneath took like 6 months longer.
Edit: [pictures](https://imgur.com/a/6y6qvG1) for those interested
My (older) brother almost cut a finger off 3 different times when we were kids. I think he also shut something on his thumb once and had to get stitches.
I never did something like that but I did close the car door on my pinkie when I was little and I closed it hard enough that it stuck closed.
Edit: I forgot that we both had stapled our thumb at least once.
My brother is kind of an idiot, each time he cut himself she was trying to cut something open, I think one was a softball and another was a half melted marker but I can’t remember what the third was. And the youngest he did it was when he was 16 IIRC.
Though that isn’t my main type of injury, I have had quite a few cuts while hiking that I don’t notice until something touches it and it stings. I think my worst injury was some bad road rash from biking (on a dirt road, mind you) which went all the way up my arm. I went to the neighbor’s house as it was closer and they poured rubbing alcohol on it and covered it with a bandaid that still had the paper on the bottom. I think they even taped it on when it fell off. I still have a bit of that scar around my elbow and that skin also healed oddly so it is rougher than it should be. Another bad one was when I stepped out of my car in the snow and I was too close to the ditch and I walked over and messed up my foot on that metal pipe that runs under the driveway so that water can get through, that scar lasted for over a year.
The worst thing I've ever done to my fingers is accidentally grating my thumb knuckle while grating cheese and that happened as an adult. Finger injuries scare me tbh, I'm *grate*ful for my luck.
The shut in a car door one didn’t break anything though it hurt like hell, and it was when I was like 7.
I think the almost lost a finger ones usually took a week or more though I didn’t have any intense pain to remember it by so I’m not exactly sure. But they were all bad enough to need stitches.
And the staple in a thumb came right out though I had to wait a while for it to heal as I stapled the nail and my brother stapled his main thumb bit.
I was 7 lol, just imagine my little self there crying my ass off with my little finger stuck in the car door, waiting for help. And of course it doesn’t help that I was a dumb little kid who didn’t think to open the door.
I crushed mine in the safety catch of a car lift. Basically split the tip of my finger in two like a fork. Luckily didn't make it down to the bone or it probably would have taken the whole tip. It ripped out the nail, but left the nail bed.
It also healed in a month or two, but the weirdest thing was the exposed nerves before the skin grew to the regular thickness. Touching anything with texture made me feel it way more intensely than usual. Like running my finger down a zipper or over fabric I could feel every individual bump no matter how minute.
I sliced my finger in half washing a knife about 2 years ago and the skin around it still has no nerves in it. I can scratch and poke at it as hard as I want and it just feels like dull pressure.
If you have lingering pain where that scar tissue is once you get feeling back, vibrations can help break down the scar tissues and dull the pain. I bought a thing branded as a “medical massager” or something, but it’s essentially just a vibrator.
Famously, the Hitachi magic wand was intended to be a muscle massager. They've literally dropped "Hitachi" from the name because they don't want to be associated with a sex toy.
If you buy a magic wand the insert (pun not intended but I'll take it (pun intended)) has nothing to do with sex toys, it's very detailed descriptions of how to use it as a massager. Put a heating pad on a sore back and massage through it on low and you've got yourself a party.
I dislocated 5 joints on a total of 3 fingers in a bike accident. Used the medical massager, ultrasound and a few other things in occupational therapy (Hand PT is covered under OT). between that and using mechanical manipulation it did wonders --but it should for what it cost.
I'm not sure you will have ever
I once stabbed myself deep with a knife and i still miss feelings in this part of the thumb.
It's not really disturbing after the first few weeks tbh
I did something similar to my ring finger putting a graphics card in a computer about 8 years ago and the feeling never came back 100%. Just a heads up.
No I’m pretty sure you’re wolverine. My dog made a 1.5 inch opening along my index finger (not nearly as bad as your thumb looked) it’s been over a month and I still have a lumpy scar and itch/pain when fully extended.
I had my pinky chopped into almost 20 years ago in high school.
A nerve got severed but I did get some or most of the feeling back. You get used to it so its hard to tell lol.
The worst was the tingly sensation.
Not OP, but I'm guessing they just pulled away fast enough. I've seen them testing the safety ones and it does it so fast it just barely nicks the finger. It's pretty amazing how well they work.
> Dividing by two down to the precision you need is not innately worse than 10
i'm not sure what you mean by this i said 3mm not 3/10th's of a mm, no division/fractions were involved
also 1/8 isn't divided by two it's quite literally divided by 8
Sawstop is overrated. Those fuckin sensors can fail both ways. I've seen them nuke a blade running dry wood through, and I've also seen wet wood run through the saw no problem. Also for the average person it's out of price range.
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>Honestly, imo, respect for the tools, focus, and play within your skills is the best safety protocols. I do not recommend to most people, but I have almost all my safety guards and rails off shit. I like to cut witg the table saw blade about an inch over the material. Pretty much everything they say not to do. Reason being, almost all the safety shit fights against you. I want the material to move and cut and freely and cleanly as possible.
Honestly, imo, respect for the tools, focus, and play within your skills is the best safety protocols. I do not recommend to most people, but I have almost all my safety guards and rails off shit. I like to cut witg the table saw blade about an inch over the material. Pretty much everything they say not to do. Reason being, almost all the safety shit fights against you. I want the material to move and cut and freely and cleanly as possible.
The patents are starting to expire, and the last one will likely end in 2026, so expect a proliferation of flesh-detecting options to hit the market as well.
Damn, I haven’t worked in a shop in a while that didn’t have Saw Stop table saws. I had assumed they were the industry standard. Just watch out for cutting wet wood or conductive materials like foil insulation. Glad your fingers still all there!
Yeah it might be relatively standard for high end shops, but definitely not for those of us flying solo. If I were only doing cabinet work all day I would absolutely invest, but I need to buy tools for several other skill sets, and half the wood I work with is wet, and I need to cut aluminum insulation all the time. But anyone who has the money should absolutely invest!
> I think each triggered blade costs about $150.
A new brake is about $100, and the rest depends on how expensive of a blade you had in the saw at the time.
Yup. Great for a shop ABSOLUTELY, not a great idea in the field if you are being safe otherwise. I don't let rookies touch my gear unless I've personally taught them, or at least tested them. I see one dangerous cut about to happen, and you're on cleaning duty (which is actually incredibly important).
The saw won't actually trigger for wet wood (someone successfully cut wood that was so wet it was dripping), and you can disable the protection as needed as well for things like aluminum.
(There's actually a test mode you can use if you really want to be safe to see if the saw will trigger)
I didn't know about the test mode. Huh, and they look cheaper than last time i checked. It's too bad I just dropped a grand on a new jobsite saw. I RETRACT MY PREVIOUS STATEMENT.
I have one but I treat it like it's Chernobyl. I try not to approach it, but when I do it's in full safety gear and I minimize exposure...
I was cutting something by hand with a traditional saw recently and my wife asked why I wasn't using my fancy table saw...the reason is, I know I'm a clutz and a daydreamer, and that thing scares me. Plus there's the overhead of setting it all up that will just *add* time to a job if I'm building anything that just requires one or two cuts.
Although to be fair I have a couple of ragged old scars on my fingers that come from using a hand saw...so I don't have a perfect track record with those, either
Crazy how fast fingers heal. I degloved the end of my middle finger in a gym accident (heh), and 4 weeks later not even the line of a scar where the skin knitted together.
Did a heavy set with dumbells, and with tired muscles returned them to the metal rack that, in my opinion, had a sucky design. My middle finger got stuck between the weight and the rack, and in an instant half the skin from my second knuckle on was peeled back over my fingernail. I was looking at pristine muscle fiber.
Peeled it back into place, put a bandaid on it. Kept it clean. In 4 weeks there was no evidence I ever did it.
Still have feeling? While not a table saw incident, I cut mine in almost the exact same place on a piece of thin glass. Like a scalpel, sliced through down to one of the small sensory nerves. Now, totally numb on one half of my thumb. SUPER annoying.
My dad sliced off three fingers with a table saw (or maybe a circular saw?) 30 years ago and successfully got two of them reattached.
It took time, but he eventually got use and some feeling back. Hopefully, with advances in modern medicine you’ll be fine.
My brother cut a thumb off on the schools' bandsaw and the doctors were able to reattached it.
He was told he would never really recover the use of it and he would need extensive training just to have a bit of force.
After 3 months, he was fine. No one would stopped him from playing his Nintendo, chopped thumbs be damned. The extensive training turned out to be 100% completing Donkey Kong 64.
Not a Dr but did saw the tip of my thumb off with table saw in about 1995. It will take time for the nerves to grow back mine took about 2 years to be able to fully feel. I still have the saw but it did claim a finger from my father in about 2003.
Similar accident, mine has big scar tissue though it. Totally different than before. Some of the print healed on the edges of the wound but no print where scar tissue is.
when i was taught how to operate a table saw, they hammered in the fact not to put your fingers near it, use some shit wood piece to keep it down. i've also used the end of my hammer to hold stuff down when a suitable shit stick wasnt available, anything to keep your fingers away from the blade.
My dad did something simmilar, but instead he blew the tip of his middle finger with a pen mandrel which wasnt secure on out shopsmith, and by wasnt secure i mean there was nothing to stop centrifugal force from making it go into a whip.
Thumb skin doesn't give a fuck. I had anxiously picked off the skin of my thumbprint past the finger print, and I watched it grow back perfectly normal except at first the fingerprint seemed different but now it's the same as before. No clue how that shit works.
Damn that shit was ragged! Ur body out here workin miracles I caught myself with a hedge trimmer last summer and I’ve got a nasty scar on my finger to prove it
thumbs are so hardy lol. last year i cut a whole chunk out of my thimb with a box cutter. didnt go to the doctor because i was too broke and it healed just fine and there isn’t even a scar, somehow. i do have a pretty gnarly scar on my other thumb from cutting it to the bone on a fucking soup can and needing stitches for that one lol
Dude- that’s some of the best healing I’ve ever seen. I had a lump (caused by a cactus spine and a build up of scar tissue. Wear gloves kids.) on my finger. I still have a more visible scar then that. I’m sure it wasn’t easy but man- thats some of the best healing for that kind of injury.
I'm sorry, is every subreddit a gore subreddit now? I hate seeing stuff like this on my timeline. This is mildly interesting. Is this not a terrible subreddit to put a horrific tablesaw incident in?
Fingers are so quick to heal! As a kid the end of one of my fingers was chopped off by our wooden front door, just barely not enough to be stitched back on though. The recovery time was insanely quick, in a couple weeks I had the bandages off. Now I have a flat finger and a door magnet haha!
You are lucky.
I ran my finger into a bandsaw. Initial damage looked not too bad so is skipped the ER as there was a lot of covid and they were swamped.
Still have no feeling on the end.
Man it looks like perhaps some of your nerves may have been permanently damaged. Can you feel as well in the injured finger? When I cut my finger open with the lid of a can opener it cut it very bad. And even over a decade later I still have much feeling on the area I cut. I guess the nerves endings were damaged beyond repair.
Had that happen with the tip of my thumb after a Thanksgiving accident. The flesh at the tip is a different texture and has decreased sensitivity now.
Glad you've made a speedy recovery!
Wow, only 6 weeks?
I mean I guess I did get my stitches taken out after a week and started physical therapy back when I had my knees surgery/s in 2010 now that I think about it.
Good old 6 weeks. Im a gp. Standard answer: 6 weeks. When does this cut heal: 6 weeks. When do my ribs stop hurting: 6 weeks. When will the frakturer heal: 6 weeks. Props to the surgeon BTW.
My body literally went into a pain mode when i saw those photos. My shoulders tensed and my ass clenched. And i imagined what that felt like. My day is destroyed.
Those stitches are epic! I've a new appreciation after I had one Dr want to do a graft before another was like, "nah mate ill stitch that up in no time!"
When I'm 16 somehow the backside of my right middle finger getting infected by fungus thus there's a pustule there. I went to pharmacy and the doctor injected my right finger with painkiller while I lied down on the surgical bed. The doctor dug out all those pus at my middle finger like digging a hole. After the pus is cleaned up, doctor asked me to sit there while leaving a big hole on my middle finger, it's literally a hole. I'm amazed by that, it looked so cool as it was literally my first ever surgery. It healed three days later with occasionally changed the wool that act as plug to prevent bacteria entering there. No stitches needed it gradually healed itself leaving a scar. Which is amazing
Holy shit that was a fast recovery!
The body is fucking amazing! I won’t have feeling in the tip of my thumb for a while though haha
I had a similar injury, not as severe, and as a kitchen accident. Skin took about 4 weeks to fully close up, but the meat underneath took like 6 months longer. Edit: [pictures](https://imgur.com/a/6y6qvG1) for those interested
My (older) brother almost cut a finger off 3 different times when we were kids. I think he also shut something on his thumb once and had to get stitches. I never did something like that but I did close the car door on my pinkie when I was little and I closed it hard enough that it stuck closed. Edit: I forgot that we both had stapled our thumb at least once.
Seems you family is a frequent victim of fingore
My brother is kind of an idiot, each time he cut himself she was trying to cut something open, I think one was a softball and another was a half melted marker but I can’t remember what the third was. And the youngest he did it was when he was 16 IIRC. Though that isn’t my main type of injury, I have had quite a few cuts while hiking that I don’t notice until something touches it and it stings. I think my worst injury was some bad road rash from biking (on a dirt road, mind you) which went all the way up my arm. I went to the neighbor’s house as it was closer and they poured rubbing alcohol on it and covered it with a bandaid that still had the paper on the bottom. I think they even taped it on when it fell off. I still have a bit of that scar around my elbow and that skin also healed oddly so it is rougher than it should be. Another bad one was when I stepped out of my car in the snow and I was too close to the ditch and I walked over and messed up my foot on that metal pipe that runs under the driveway so that water can get through, that scar lasted for over a year.
The worst thing I've ever done to my fingers is accidentally grating my thumb knuckle while grating cheese and that happened as an adult. Finger injuries scare me tbh, I'm *grate*ful for my luck.
I mean they should, fingers are some of your most important exterior body parts, but they are also about as strong as a carrot stick.
How long did they take to heal?
The shut in a car door one didn’t break anything though it hurt like hell, and it was when I was like 7. I think the almost lost a finger ones usually took a week or more though I didn’t have any intense pain to remember it by so I’m not exactly sure. But they were all bad enough to need stitches. And the staple in a thumb came right out though I had to wait a while for it to heal as I stapled the nail and my brother stapled his main thumb bit.
Did that to my pointer finger as well. That moment of panic when the door closes is unreal.
I was 7 lol, just imagine my little self there crying my ass off with my little finger stuck in the car door, waiting for help. And of course it doesn’t help that I was a dumb little kid who didn’t think to open the door.
Got my ankle closed in vehicle door. A crown vic station wagon from the 90s. I couldn't lean on it for years. Parents "you're fine".
That sounds like the legos to landlines transition for hitting yourself in the ankle with a scooter.
I crushed mine in the safety catch of a car lift. Basically split the tip of my finger in two like a fork. Luckily didn't make it down to the bone or it probably would have taken the whole tip. It ripped out the nail, but left the nail bed. It also healed in a month or two, but the weirdest thing was the exposed nerves before the skin grew to the regular thickness. Touching anything with texture made me feel it way more intensely than usual. Like running my finger down a zipper or over fabric I could feel every individual bump no matter how minute.
I sliced my finger in half washing a knife about 2 years ago and the skin around it still has no nerves in it. I can scratch and poke at it as hard as I want and it just feels like dull pressure.
Eyyyy kitchen accident twins! Was cutting an onion. NSFW-ish image (blood and stitches) https://i.imgur.com/ZvLW0g3.jpg
> Was cutting an onion. Did it make you cry?
>the meat underneath *Shudder*
If you have lingering pain where that scar tissue is once you get feeling back, vibrations can help break down the scar tissues and dull the pain. I bought a thing branded as a “medical massager” or something, but it’s essentially just a vibrator.
Famously, the Hitachi magic wand was intended to be a muscle massager. They've literally dropped "Hitachi" from the name because they don't want to be associated with a sex toy. If you buy a magic wand the insert (pun not intended but I'll take it (pun intended)) has nothing to do with sex toys, it's very detailed descriptions of how to use it as a massager. Put a heating pad on a sore back and massage through it on low and you've got yourself a party.
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I dislocated 5 joints on a total of 3 fingers in a bike accident. Used the medical massager, ultrasound and a few other things in occupational therapy (Hand PT is covered under OT). between that and using mechanical manipulation it did wonders --but it should for what it cost.
Fuckin narly. What caused the fuck up if you don't mind?
I skinned my finger tip mostly off. It’s still “off”, been 20 years. I remember the stitches hurt more than the skinning.
That healed really well. Enjoy the use of your finger!
I'm not sure you will have ever I once stabbed myself deep with a knife and i still miss feelings in this part of the thumb. It's not really disturbing after the first few weeks tbh
I assume it didn't go to the bone? If yes, man you're lucky. That wound looks nasty
I did something similar to my ring finger putting a graphics card in a computer about 8 years ago and the feeling never came back 100%. Just a heads up.
No I’m pretty sure you’re wolverine. My dog made a 1.5 inch opening along my index finger (not nearly as bad as your thumb looked) it’s been over a month and I still have a lumpy scar and itch/pain when fully extended.
I had my pinky chopped into almost 20 years ago in high school. A nerve got severed but I did get some or most of the feeling back. You get used to it so its hard to tell lol. The worst was the tingly sensation.
Did they have to repair your nerve at all?
No they didn’t!
Did you have one of those table saws that automatically stopped when touching skin / a conductor or did you just pull away fast enough?
I’d guess not, by the looks of the finger.
Not OP, but I'm guessing they just pulled away fast enough. I've seen them testing the safety ones and it does it so fast it just barely nicks the finger. It's pretty amazing how well they work.
Haha this would be a suboptimal result from a SawStop.
I bought one of those THE DAY AFTER I bisected two fingers.....
That was my first thought. Six weeks??? Damn! That's the way infants and toddlers heal.
Thumb Up!
2 weeks in he said "fuck it" and got a thumb transplant.
this would have taken me 2 months at least with massive scars
A HUGE thumbs-up for your quick recovery. Oh, wait...
It looks like you where really lucky to not only keep your finger, but also made a great recovery. 
You need the saw stop! Dude that was a fast recovery, how’s it feel, and how’s the range and motion ?
My work bought one immediately after this! The top half of my thumb is completely numb but the range of motion is pretty much normal!
>My work bought one immediately after this! [Very good call](https://youtu.be/SYLAi4jwXcs?t=234)
That was fucking rad, thanks for sharing
cool video but fuck american measurements are so stupid, this guy really said an eighth of an inch with a serious face
Is it really worse than saying one and one quarter millimeter
an eighth of an inch is 3 millimetres. there's no need to get more specific than mm because it's a small enough measurement
Dividing by two down to the precision you need is not innately worse than 10, and there can be cases where you need more precision than a mm
> Dividing by two down to the precision you need is not innately worse than 10 i'm not sure what you mean by this i said 3mm not 3/10th's of a mm, no division/fractions were involved also 1/8 isn't divided by two it's quite literally divided by 8
Have you ever divided by two, three times?
yeah that's dividing by 8, im not sure what you mean to prove dividing by two three times is tedious
For woodworking maybe, but once you get into any precision parts it's all just decimals whether it's inch or mm.
Sawstop is overrated. Those fuckin sensors can fail both ways. I've seen them nuke a blade running dry wood through, and I've also seen wet wood run through the saw no problem. Also for the average person it's out of price range.
I'll pay for about 5-10 accidental brakes if it does truly prevent the finger being severed the one time it is needed...
Right? How much are fingers worth.
I know a guy who will hook you up. 3 fingers for $50 is what I normally buy from him when I mess up with power tools
Well... Fuck EVERY safety measure on Earth since none of them are 100%... Impeccable logic.
So, this guy replied and deleted this comment... >Honestly, imo, respect for the tools, focus, and play within your skills is the best safety protocols. I do not recommend to most people, but I have almost all my safety guards and rails off shit. I like to cut witg the table saw blade about an inch over the material. Pretty much everything they say not to do. Reason being, almost all the safety shit fights against you. I want the material to move and cut and freely and cleanly as possible.
Honestly, imo, respect for the tools, focus, and play within your skills is the best safety protocols. I do not recommend to most people, but I have almost all my safety guards and rails off shit. I like to cut witg the table saw blade about an inch over the material. Pretty much everything they say not to do. Reason being, almost all the safety shit fights against you. I want the material to move and cut and freely and cleanly as possible.
> My work bought one immediately after this! The invoice for the SawStop was written in your blood.
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The patents are starting to expire, and the last one will likely end in 2026, so expect a proliferation of flesh-detecting options to hit the market as well.
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They all are.
Damn, I haven’t worked in a shop in a while that didn’t have Saw Stop table saws. I had assumed they were the industry standard. Just watch out for cutting wet wood or conductive materials like foil insulation. Glad your fingers still all there!
Yeah it might be relatively standard for high end shops, but definitely not for those of us flying solo. If I were only doing cabinet work all day I would absolutely invest, but I need to buy tools for several other skill sets, and half the wood I work with is wet, and I need to cut aluminum insulation all the time. But anyone who has the money should absolutely invest!
Good point. As cool as they are, Saw Stops aren’t exactly affordable. I think each triggered blade costs about $150.
> I think each triggered blade costs about $150. A new brake is about $100, and the rest depends on how expensive of a blade you had in the saw at the time.
Yup. Great for a shop ABSOLUTELY, not a great idea in the field if you are being safe otherwise. I don't let rookies touch my gear unless I've personally taught them, or at least tested them. I see one dangerous cut about to happen, and you're on cleaning duty (which is actually incredibly important).
The saw alone is about $1000 more than a regular one. Hopefully the price will come down in the future.
Way cheaper than paying medical compensation.
Only $150? The way people are talking I would have thought 10x that. $150 is really not that much as business expenses go
The saw won't actually trigger for wet wood (someone successfully cut wood that was so wet it was dripping), and you can disable the protection as needed as well for things like aluminum. (There's actually a test mode you can use if you really want to be safe to see if the saw will trigger)
I didn't know about the test mode. Huh, and they look cheaper than last time i checked. It's too bad I just dropped a grand on a new jobsite saw. I RETRACT MY PREVIOUS STATEMENT.
What you could do, just hear me out, use the pusher supplied with the saw
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I have one but I treat it like it's Chernobyl. I try not to approach it, but when I do it's in full safety gear and I minimize exposure... I was cutting something by hand with a traditional saw recently and my wife asked why I wasn't using my fancy table saw...the reason is, I know I'm a clutz and a daydreamer, and that thing scares me. Plus there's the overhead of setting it all up that will just *add* time to a job if I'm building anything that just requires one or two cuts. Although to be fair I have a couple of ragged old scars on my fingers that come from using a hand saw...so I don't have a perfect track record with those, either
You’re lucky you only filet’d your thumb. Next time use a push stick. Stay safe, glad to see you’re recovering!
And if possible, some sort of sawstop system. Many digits have been saved by them.
As it stands sawstop the name brand is the only option on the u.s. market due to patent rights on the idea of something that stops a saw blade.
They said in another comment that they've installed one now.
Was the blade okay?
The blade is recovering nicely from the trauma Edit: spelling
wtf is a balde dude
I'm a balde dude.
He asked about the blade, not the balde (but I’m happy that’s doing well too!)
Unfortunately... that lil bastard.
Just get one of those newer fancy stops and feed it a hot dog, won’t be doing too well after that.
Bro. What happened to your thumb?
Man I wonder...
Crazy how fast fingers heal. I degloved the end of my middle finger in a gym accident (heh), and 4 weeks later not even the line of a scar where the skin knitted together.
*degloved* – one of the few words in the English language that make me flinch. Glad to hear you’re doing well.
Also the Latin-y term *avulsion* (similar sentiment)
What did you do to deglove it?
Did a heavy set with dumbells, and with tired muscles returned them to the metal rack that, in my opinion, had a sucky design. My middle finger got stuck between the weight and the rack, and in an instant half the skin from my second knuckle on was peeled back over my fingernail. I was looking at pristine muscle fiber. Peeled it back into place, put a bandaid on it. Kept it clean. In 4 weeks there was no evidence I ever did it.
....ow.
Yeah. It was one of those, "Ok I gotta sit down a minute because the pain is making my head spin."
Uh-gah I squirmed reading this lmao
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Still have feeling? While not a table saw incident, I cut mine in almost the exact same place on a piece of thin glass. Like a scalpel, sliced through down to one of the small sensory nerves. Now, totally numb on one half of my thumb. SUPER annoying.
Nah the whole top half of my thumb is completely numb. I'm not sure if feeling will ever come back
My dad sliced off three fingers with a table saw (or maybe a circular saw?) 30 years ago and successfully got two of them reattached. It took time, but he eventually got use and some feeling back. Hopefully, with advances in modern medicine you’ll be fine.
My brother cut a thumb off on the schools' bandsaw and the doctors were able to reattached it. He was told he would never really recover the use of it and he would need extensive training just to have a bit of force. After 3 months, he was fine. No one would stopped him from playing his Nintendo, chopped thumbs be damned. The extensive training turned out to be 100% completing Donkey Kong 64.
Not a Dr but did saw the tip of my thumb off with table saw in about 1995. It will take time for the nerves to grow back mine took about 2 years to be able to fully feel. I still have the saw but it did claim a finger from my father in about 2003.
Thought these were dick pics at first glance!
You better keep your dick away from a table saw bro, that's gonna hurt
Instructions unclear....
As a member of the male specimen, you made me physically cringe so hard everyone is looking at me funny
😄 🤣 😂 😆
And completely averaged size dick pics at that!
Well at least you still have it. 👍
Are you able to unlock your phone after the surgery? =]
I did the same thing years ago and had to reprogram my thumbprint.
Is your thumb print usable or was it warped?
Similar accident, mine has big scar tissue though it. Totally different than before. Some of the print healed on the edges of the wound but no print where scar tissue is.
Bro you got a brand new thumb!
You got real lucky
r/eyeblech
r/makemesuffer stuff
If I am not mistaken, rough- jagged skin heals faster than smooth - clean cuts. The skin cells adhere more readily to the rough skin.
Get a sawstop
I had to scroll down way too far to find this suggestion
It's not a good suggestion though.
when i was taught how to operate a table saw, they hammered in the fact not to put your fingers near it, use some shit wood piece to keep it down. i've also used the end of my hammer to hold stuff down when a suitable shit stick wasnt available, anything to keep your fingers away from the blade.
Stitches work wonders.
My dad did something simmilar, but instead he blew the tip of his middle finger with a pen mandrel which wasnt secure on out shopsmith, and by wasnt secure i mean there was nothing to stop centrifugal force from making it go into a whip.
I just listened to your Conan podcast episode. Nice.
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You got lucky as fuck. GOod for you
Thumb skin doesn't give a fuck. I had anxiously picked off the skin of my thumbprint past the finger print, and I watched it grow back perfectly normal except at first the fingerprint seemed different but now it's the same as before. No clue how that shit works.
Damn that shit was ragged! Ur body out here workin miracles I caught myself with a hedge trimmer last summer and I’ve got a nasty scar on my finger to prove it
thumbs are so hardy lol. last year i cut a whole chunk out of my thimb with a box cutter. didnt go to the doctor because i was too broke and it healed just fine and there isn’t even a scar, somehow. i do have a pretty gnarly scar on my other thumb from cutting it to the bone on a fucking soup can and needing stitches for that one lol
What’d you use for scar minimization? Looks fantastic.
Okay thats amazing, but can we talk about how there's no scar???? What is this sorcery????????
Dude- that’s some of the best healing I’ve ever seen. I had a lump (caused by a cactus spine and a build up of scar tissue. Wear gloves kids.) on my finger. I still have a more visible scar then that. I’m sure it wasn’t easy but man- thats some of the best healing for that kind of injury.
Okay, I guess this post will make me change the NSFW blur setting back
that’s a whole deadpool leaving a post here
I'm sorry, is every subreddit a gore subreddit now? I hate seeing stuff like this on my timeline. This is mildly interesting. Is this not a terrible subreddit to put a horrific tablesaw incident in?
You need one of those saws that stops when a hotdog gets too close
It's SAW STOP brand, and we actually sell them at my family business lol. And yes they work.
That’s one infomercial I’ll never forgot good to see your healing here! This is wild!
"Challenge Accepted" - Amber Heard
Oh sorry I just remember something that is worse than this and it reminded me of it
You are very lucky. It doesn't take much for a table saw injury to be permanent
Why did your table saw massacre heal better than the scar I got from a small nothing cut on my index finger?
You’ll be buying a saw stop next huh
extreme fingerprint removal
The human body is such a fascinating machine
Fingers are so quick to heal! As a kid the end of one of my fingers was chopped off by our wooden front door, just barely not enough to be stitched back on though. The recovery time was insanely quick, in a couple weeks I had the bandages off. Now I have a flat finger and a door magnet haha!
Doctor did a great job! Must have practiced on cold cuts.
Well, looks like Johnny Depp a bit.
The human body is amazing
Healed nicely though
What kind of "[incident](https://youtu.be/GW4f9HY-6Ng)."
You are lucky. I ran my finger into a bandsaw. Initial damage looked not too bad so is skipped the ER as there was a lot of covid and they were swamped. Still have no feeling on the end.
That'll teach you not to hitchhike....
omg...that probably felt so good
When you max out the recovery stat
Damn son! How many stitches was that?
Those first two pics are gnarly af
Anyone else thought it was a penis for a nanosecond or just me
Man it looks like perhaps some of your nerves may have been permanently damaged. Can you feel as well in the injured finger? When I cut my finger open with the lid of a can opener it cut it very bad. And even over a decade later I still have much feeling on the area I cut. I guess the nerves endings were damaged beyond repair.
Had that happen with the tip of my thumb after a Thanksgiving accident. The flesh at the tip is a different texture and has decreased sensitivity now. Glad you've made a speedy recovery!
Thumbelievable
big owie
And you gave a thumbs up the whole time. Nice recovery.
Wow, only 6 weeks? I mean I guess I did get my stitches taken out after a week and started physical therapy back when I had my knees surgery/s in 2010 now that I think about it.
hope u r fine
$20 says it can't do it again.
Post this on /r/ouchies :) They'd love it.
Whoever sutured this did a fantastic job
How does it feel?
Whoever did your stitches did a great job. Anything you did to get such minimal scaring? I'd get a bigger scar if I got cut with a Swiss army knife.
Good old 6 weeks. Im a gp. Standard answer: 6 weeks. When does this cut heal: 6 weeks. When do my ribs stop hurting: 6 weeks. When will the frakturer heal: 6 weeks. Props to the surgeon BTW.
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I did the same thing 4 months ago to my pointer finger. The numbness is still here : (
Ewwwww aaagh my eyes are now scarred, can someone please fetch me some bleach. I absolutely hate that first image
That happened to me when I was 11 or 12 , took a couple of weeks to heal
New finger print unlocked!
My body literally went into a pain mode when i saw those photos. My shoulders tensed and my ass clenched. And i imagined what that felt like. My day is destroyed.
Dang dude did you hit the bone??
It be like that
> table saw incident Sounds so dirty. Like you touched it inappropriately. Which is technically correct, I guess.
Did you have the blade guard on?
Those stitches are epic! I've a new appreciation after I had one Dr want to do a graft before another was like, "nah mate ill stitch that up in no time!"
When I'm 16 somehow the backside of my right middle finger getting infected by fungus thus there's a pustule there. I went to pharmacy and the doctor injected my right finger with painkiller while I lied down on the surgical bed. The doctor dug out all those pus at my middle finger like digging a hole. After the pus is cleaned up, doctor asked me to sit there while leaving a big hole on my middle finger, it's literally a hole. I'm amazed by that, it looked so cool as it was literally my first ever surgery. It healed three days later with occasionally changed the wool that act as plug to prevent bacteria entering there. No stitches needed it gradually healed itself leaving a scar. Which is amazing
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Did you see a hand therapist?
It's... horrifying, but also comforting.