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I split my finger open!!

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thehiros

Jan 23, 2009
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Melbourne, Australia
#1
Ok, really annoying, but it happens. I took a shower, a nice HOT one, and I finished and came out, I saw I had a few dishes in the sink needing to be cleaning.
So I grab a pot to start scrubbing it, and I manage to swipe my finger across the underside of the pot's handle which happened to be very sharp and made of PLASTIC...:eek:
Well like I said, I just came out of a hot shower so my skin was all soft and my blood was pumping extra hard, so now I have a loose chunk of skin on the pad of my left index finger with multiple bandaids over it so it doesn't squirt blood everywhere.
Gonna be a real ass to try practising bass or anything now...
Luckily for me I don't have anything like a major gig to practise for, but anyone else have other crappy, what-are-the-chances, kinda injury like that?
 
#8
shawn-o said:
That sucks man. Definitely super glue though.

Walking into the studio about 4 weeks ago, I grab my pedalboard and somehow rip my nail almost completely OFF my finger. It was definitely not a good time.
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OUCH on the nail, that would really suck!
Yeh, dunno about the super glue, I think I'll go it old-fashioned and just leave the bandaids over it until the skin reattaches itself, it worked fine when I split my hand open before with a knife real deep, maybe about a cm deep, right above the webbing between my thumb and index :crying:
 
#15
OK dudes and dudettes... Any bass player that wants to keep his callouses and not have to worry about plastic pot handles needs to wear rubber gloves doing dishes. Yeah, I can hear the laughing now, but I haven't stuck my hands in a dish tub with hot water for 25 years. Just do it....get the gloves. You'll be happy happy.
And thehiros, once the bleeding stops, just super glue it and you should be fine. I've used it for real emergency's and it works. I used the thick kind. )=(
 
#16
I had a similarly stupid thing happen once. My brother just got a new knife with this funky kind of sheath. Instead of asking him how to get the blade out I thought, "I'm a man, I can figure this out!" and my pride split my index finger behind the first knuckle.

It was hours before I was supposed to play at church and I had to call my music minister and tell him I couldn't make it. He came up to the hospital even though church was starting pretty soon.

All in all, it wasn't too bad an experience since all I lost was blood and time. But that's why my music minister officiated my wedding: one seriously stand-up guy!
 
#17
I've worked in construction scince I was 13 years old, and started playing bass a few years before that. After countless finger wounds super glue became a close friend. Now, the tips of my fingers seem to act like the heads of threatend turtles, instinctively pulling back away from danger.

Gloves are the answer if we use are hands in delicate situations. The guy I bought my Chapman Stick from was an electrician and only sold the Stick because of a work injury that caused the loss of feeling in most of his fingers.

I did'nt know him personaly but, I could tell how badly not being able to play anymore was painful for him. Take care of your fingers gents, they're the translaters of the music that's in our heads!
 

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