I can remember my Dad always saying “ I’ve had a worse cut on my lip and never quit whistlin’ “

How the hell did you do that !??

Yutes today would have passed out three times and still be crying for their mommy. I would tell the chick's at the bar it happened while wrestling an alligator.

The pain wasn’t bad until the nurses started washing out the wound with some stuff. The worst was definitely the shots into the cut area. They must have washed it with salt

dam, I spent a little over 30 yrs. using all types of power saws/equip. and still have all my digits and never, NEVER got bit by a saw.

probably due to woodshop in 8th grade, teach was gonna show us how to properly use the table saw (all guards in place too) and cut off his thumb, not nicked/cut but totally removed it.

I learned 5 new words that day and he was out the rest of the yr. best thing was, he could never hold a paddle right again, cut it off his dominant hand.

Yeh. I used to do custom work for a corporate type place. I was the district safety coordinator and had to train guys in the saw/stop and fire guys for doing what I did today. I’ve driven an employee to an ER while holding his thumb in a paper towel.

I saw the blade was damaged and thought I could work with it. I have 35 years of experience and this is my personal Jet 2-phase 8hp table. It’s like a dog. If you don’t respect it, you can get bit. Luckily I got it lengthwise and inot crosscut. First thing tomorrow I will buy a new blade. I was lax and distracted. I paid a little price. It’s all good.

I've been sewn up due to accidents about 12 times in my life, never whimpered until I got a shot in the end of a finger cut similar to yours. Now I know why the nurse was holding my hand down with all her weight while the doctor gave me a shot in it. Yep it hurts brother!

What he said, the dang throbbing when you lay down and then if you get to sleep you will roll over on it.
You are also very spot on about the shots hurting more than the injury. It took around 11 stitches to put the pinky finger back together on my right hand when I was 15 years old. It was neat to see the tendons moving while they had the finger spread open to check for tendon damage and debris. What ever they poured into the cut immediately stopped the bleeding and made everything easy to see. Hope you heal quickly and so glad it wasn't any worse.

Moving my son. We both had hold of recliner and I needed to reposition hand out on front of it. Instead of setting it down, I quickly moved my hands to a different holding position and caught a sharp edge underneath it. Didn’t hurt much until shots into the flesh for deadening and cleaning process. Ouch! Hope your thumb heals faster than my palm. You know us olds need that palm to be rosey and supple. I don’t think the thumb out of commission is a big deal unless you’re hitchhiking, 😂

Well. Yours looks like it hurt like hell

3 stitches is sissy stuff, could have super glued that one closed.


When I worked at an flooring installation store, we had a kid come in that had cut off 4 of his fingers on a table saw. They (hospital) had sewn back on the fingers and had some kind of medicine filled viles sticking out the top of his fingers. Made me want to puke just thinking about it.

If you work all day tomorrow and then fish tomorrow night, you’re more of a bad dude than I thought you were!

Too far from your heart to kill ya, suck it up, as said above, rub some dirt on it and then walk it off.

A mere flesh wound. Ran into a mesquite limb on riding mower with head down in this latest blood-letting moment. I can’t do anything worthwhile without getting bloody or muddy. Cheers and heals to you Steez.

Man. My bald head looks like I got in bar fight all the time. I need to wear a football helmet at work.