I hijacked another thread, not this topic, to tell of my stupid mistake yesterday. So I am starting this one.
Holding a pair of 2x4s to be joined, I fired and the .131 x 3.25 spike deflected off a knot and went right through my left index finger, near its base, flesh only and no bone. There I was looking at about one inch of nail protruding from my finger!
That’ll learn me!
I guess I was lucky it missed bone. But, I am amazed that, later yesterday, and all day today, I have literally no pain, no swelling, no nothing. My hand and finger are all business as usual.
Is this typical of a flesh-only nail piercing?
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maybe someone here can explain exactly why in med. terms, but i know of that happening sometimes. i'm guessing you and some other folk were just extremely lucky to have missed major nerve bundles?
please elaborate on how you pried yourself free!
I'm no doctor, but from what I've heard about the pain mechanism. It goes something like this: Your brain creates a pain sensation to sort of notify the rest of your brain that "Hey something's going on in that finger that I should maybe look at and take care of." However, your brain is smart enough that when something obviously bad happens it doesn't need to create the pain sensation. The example I've heard of is that if a tiger maimes someone, they don't really feel pain because the wound is so obvious that the brain is okay turning off the pain mechanism. Pretty cool. However, we're a long way off from a nibble from a tiger here... so I'm not sure in this case.
ah- nice to know. how does one go about training one's brain to ignore sinus headaches?
You have to get a large animal to cause your sinus headache.
Stinger, glad to see you got in on the newest trend.........It's called finger piercing and its the hottest thing! hmm, i'm even thinking about getting me a finger piercing
It's called finger piercing and its the hottest thing! hmm, i'm even thinking about getting me a finger piercing
Which would be best to use: galvanized, smooth shank, ring shank...-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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I'm thinking about an 8d ringshank..........Gives you that rough look, you know?
When in doubt, get a bigger hammer!
Following on yet another thread, shouldn't we all be wearing steel-tipped gloves in the shop? Makes sense to ME! :)
Also, dw and I had a black humor sort of conversation about how since pirates who lose a hand wear a hook, shouldn't a carpenter who loses a fingertip wear a little hook...a teacup hook...a fingernail file or something?!?!?! Sorry, no offense to anyone...just the silly stuff that passes for conversation some days.
Funny you mention that, I had a conversation awhile back with someone, and we thought that instead of a hook it should be a hammer head, like a 22oz. Estwing.
You know why Caprtin Hook wore a patch on one eye, don't you ???He was looking up at the clouds when a bird crapped in his eye. And it was the first day he had his hook...
He didn't have hemorrhoids, did he?
Not anymore!
I always feel more pain a few days after the initial ingury if there's a little bit of infection. Clean cuts from clean tools/hardware usually heal up pretty fast and easy for me.
It also depends on where it's located. Right on a joint is the worst, it just keeps opening up.
I did that. Went through the tip, around the bone and exited under my fingernail. Hurt like hell, though. No real swelling or anything, just hurt like hell. I jumped off a ladder one time and impaled my foot on a 20 dd nail through a boot, never hurt, never swelled, must have missed everything. My buddy had to pull it out with a pair of plyers because it went through the boot, my foot, and came out the top of my foot. Played volleyball that evening.
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