so i cut the tip of my finger off

[ka jowct]

There are two "urgent care" centers now that are not too far from where I live: one or the other of them is always open. The co-pay with my crappy insurance is $100 for a visit to the urgent care center, vs. $250 to go to the ER. It's worth finding out whether there are any urgent care clinics near you.

[OWC Jamie]

+1 on the regeneration if young


happened to my niece.
top part of finger (whole part which would include whole fingernail) lost in closing VW bug door.
It grew back, nail and all completely matching the finger on the other hand. Can't tell today that it was cut off.
In fact, I don't think she remembers which finger it was.

[freeradical]

This would be a good time for lazydays to sharpen his knives. They are much safer. Also, when you cut yourself with a sharp knife, the wound will heal faster than it does if you get cut by a dull knife.

You can also get special tomato knives. They have a very fine serrated edge that does not slip.

[OWC Jamie]

lazydays wrote:
so i cut the tip of my finger off.

now that that's out of the way ...

[SteveO]

Glad you are okay. Whew.

[MikeF]

Maybe there are some rabbi openings in your area for a second job.

[lazydays]

You know, there's always that guy who is always getting hurt in some stupid way or having strange things happen to him? That's me. There's always something going on.

[space-time]

I was 10 when I was counting the gears on a piece of machinery used to extract honey from those honeycombs, I wanted to figure out the ratio of the gears. My sister came and turned the handle. The index finger went through the gears and came out on the other side with the nail hanging like the chad in the 2000 presidential election, and I think I saw the bone. I went to the local dispensary and they bandaged it really nice and went back several times to change the bandage. I think I also took some medicine since those gears were very rusty! but today you can't even tell.

[apocketfulofwry]

My father once cut off the tip of his finger with a table saw. He picked up the severed piece, packed it in ice and went to the emergency room. The doctor took a quick look at the piece of finger and casually tossed it in the waste bin. He then pulled a flap of skin over the end of my father's finger, stitched it up, put on a dressing and sent him home.

Then there was a friend of the family who cut off his thumb with a chainsaw. That they did reattach and he regained most of its former function after many months of rehab.

Oh, and another friend who lost part of a finger to a fan belt when he stopped to help a stranded motorist. The piece was too mangled, so he's down to nine and half fingers.

Good times

[Grateful11]

A guy work cut half of one finger off on his table saw, got it fixed, went back to shop a few days later and cut off another one.