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Finger twins! Although I would be more worried if it had been my right hand. I did feel like I'd overreacted once I was seen at A&E. I'd actually done everything right and they just xrayed the finger, checked and redressed the wound and sent me home.
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Heal up - until you invest in voice to speech software lfgss needs your fingers to impart advice ;)
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I did feel like I'd overreacted once I was seen at A&E.
With mine (from the mandoline) I arrived in A&E (getting there myself by motorbike!) registered and sat down to wait. After a few minutes I went up to ask for something as the bandaging on the finger was starting to drip blood and I didn't want to make a mess on the floor, they gave me a cardboard kidney bowl.
After about 30 minutes I went back up to the reception desk to ask them what to do next as the kidney bowl was nearly full.
The look on the face of the A&E receptionist was priceless.
The kidney bowl held about a pint and this level of blood loss got me straight to the front of the queue.
From there it was about 2 minutes until being seen by a doctor, 5 minutes to x-ray (to confirm how badly the bone was damaged - not seriously luckily), 15 minutes to seeing the plastic surgeon and then I was being operated on about a couple of hours later (local anaesthetic luckily). I had great fun discussing blood and gore with the surgeon during the operation, it was also fun as I was quite fit at the time and during parts of the operation a HR monitor alarm would keep going off as I was dipping under 50bpm. They really didn't like it when I closed my eyes, relaxed, breathed slowly and got it down to 39bpm. Under 40bpm sets off a much louder alarm. Who knew.
Fox
Greenbank
Snap!
Did mine pushing a lump of oak through a table saw, jumped and dragged me in.
Stuck a plaster on it, and didn’t bother with A&E...