Yes, hope it gets better soon. The not playing guitar thing is killing me, too.
Crushed my left thumb under a piece of equipment at work a couple months ago. Just as I was getting to where I could play guitar again, I smashed my left pinkie with a hammer while setting some shelves. Again at work.
Hit it so hard that it split the end of my finger. I didn't know that I used my pinkie for so many things until it hurt to use it. Still can't finger the board without pain, but it's getting there.
Thank goodness I was wearing gloves.

craigb
Just for future reference, remember to turn the lawn more off before clearing out any grass stuck in the exit.
 
HTH.

Hey, the nurse said a landscaper came in last week missing two fingers from that very thing...
J

Well, misery does love company... Hope the eye gets better. Crushing fingers must be horrible, I think every nerve in the body must end at the fingertip. Back in 1979, give or take, I split my right thumb with a table saw. I worked in the millroom at a mobile home factory. I loved that job BTW, it was a great time... but it was time to spray some silicone on the saw. I got careless, the blade stopped whistling and I went to spray, got just a little too close and the blade was still turning. The aerosol can flew about 10' straight up and I just wrapped my index finger around my thumb. There was a doctor at the hospital, Dr. Weiss who had learned micro surgery which was at that time in its infancy. He managed to put my thumb back together. I have mutant pieces of thumbnail that grow sort of oddly but my thumb isn't numb and works perfectly, it just looks weird where the nail should be.
Hey, accidents happen. Everyone be careful... the worst thing I have done today was to go to the sink with a hot pot to soak and when I got there there was a catfood bowl in one side and another smaller pot in the other... without thinking I just grabbed the handle of the smaller pot, which was full of water and moved it to the other side.... AGGGGGGHHHH... I put my cut finger right under the handle. I wont do that again. LOL
 
Thans for the kind words everyone... and Herb...
 
I hope we get better tenants. We have gone to using a management company but so far it has not been a great experience. Someone told me a way to get people out when you need to. A guy who bought a bunch of foreclosures. If he needs to get someone out he just goes to the house and takes the front door off the house. The people are like Whhhhaaaa???? He tells them that he needs the door on another house where the people are paying the rent... LOL. However, this guy is ex Black Ops... I'm not sure if I could get away with it. IT is funny though.
 
Julien
 

spacey
 
If I had posted pictures of what a reciprocating saw did to my thumb
Cake would have banned me.
 
 

I remember you telling that story every time I use my reciprocator.
 
Julien, my sympathies. I was trimming a customer's Leylandii hedge last year and left my cutter running on the top while I moved the ladder along. Cutter's tickover wasn't set right (my fault) and the blades were moving..put my hand down and it just nicked a neat groove out of the end of my index finger..man, did that ever bleed!

Many years back, in a garage band of sorts... I was setting in the front passenger side of a car. Both doors on that side were open. I had the support for the roof in my hand as the guy setting in the rear seat got out and closed the door. I was answering a question asked by the driver and not aware of the door closing until it closed on my fingers. It was the hinged side of the door..... man did that hurt. The guy in the back who had closed the door felt really bad about what happened but not as bad as I did.....
 
Fortunately, no bones were broken and while painful for a few days, it was my picking hand and not my fretting hand.... so I could stumble my way through playing a bit.