Thread: PaulFLUS

It was an F-150. Sorry to hear of your daughter's troubles with her finger. Each person and each injury is unique. It's regrettable that hers has been so painful. I have moments when I think I should have just said remove it and be done with it. It would have been easier For myself though I felt like it was early to decide to remove it. Even though the distal phalanx and medial phalanx were both shattered I had not lost sensation in any part of the finger. The thing that really pushed me toward trying to save it was that I could still move the finger and, according to the surgeon or at least my understanding of his words, more importantly, I could still straighten it. He said in those type injuries the tendon on top that straightens it out is usually severed. I had been granted that blessing so it seemed wrong not to trust it. So far I am able to maintain with just Advil so I am hopeful.
On a humorous note though I had my son driving me around working today. When we were leaving one job I gave him some hand sanitizer and he said, "OW! That really hurts the cuts on my hands.... Really?

Edit: Not to dog him out though. It probably hurt more than my finger injury. Maybe it's some kind of mental detachment or something but it didn't hurt that bad. They only gave me pain meds once in the emergency room and I was there for over 8 hours. My wife thinks I'm abnormal but I have just been blessed with a really high pain tolerance. Don't get me wrong. I still FEEL pain but I don't flinch at it. Maybe it's from when I got hit by a car when I was 8 years old and spent a week in the hospital all banged up, or maybe I was just born that way. I don't know. I think most anyone can learn to do it. When my kids were born and we did the Lamaze class I remember thinking the first time, "Hey, this is sort of what I have always done." You just have to accept the pain and not try to fight it. It's the flinching or fighting it that makes it feel like it hurts so much.