Good thing I had heavy leather gloves on!
Summer of 2019, almost the same story, except I wasn't wearing gloves, and I had a 4-1/2" angle grinder "grab" and get away from me, which cut the tendon in the knuckle of the middle finger on my left hand:
Despite two surgeries and a LOT of P/T, I can't bend that finger past this point (the second finger, not the first one here):
And since the scar tissue "fused" the skin to the cartilage during an infection, I can't push this finger "flat against itself" (if that makes sense) no matter how hard I try.
Ever since that day, every time I see someone using a "death wheel" on TV who isn't using gloves I want to send them an email showing them my hand the day I cut it. (No, I won't post that here.)
Yeah, hurts like a mother, I know, but you were lucky.
And you're smarter than I was.
(But I have learned!)
Yup. You were really lucky.
Summer of 2019, almost the same story, except I wasn't wearing gloves, and I had a 4-1/2" angle grinder "grab" and get away from me, which cut the tendon in the knuckle of the middle finger on my left hand:
Despite two surgeries and a LOT of P/T, I can't bend that finger past this point (the second finger, not the first one here):
And since the scar tissue "fused" the skin to the cartilage during an infection, I can't push this finger "flat against itself" (if that makes sense) no matter how hard I try.
Ever since that day, every time I see someone using a "death wheel" on TV who isn't using gloves I want to send them an email showing them my hand the day I cut it. (No, I won't post that here.)
Yeah, hurts like a mother, I know, but you were lucky.
And you're smarter than I was.
(But I have learned!)