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I just got stitches in my finger no thanks to a broken bike pump. I saw my tendon so it's on a splint for 5 days, two days after that I'm moving into a house I just rented. I already know there's no chance I'll get much if any help. That almost never happens, for any reason bar none.

I emailed my bosses but I'm going to work tomorrow. I'm getting referred to a hand specialist doctor In a week or so. If this were any worse it might end my engineering career. I can't imagine that guy has any good news about my other fingers.

I'm going sleep after I eat more to make sure any possible tendon injury is healing.

Such is the life of a clumsy autistic fool.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

I'm really sorry Cberg that sounds awful. Hoping for a speedy recovery.

DANG! That's gotta hurt! I hope it all works out for you!

I guess I'm not as cabbaged as I was last night, thanks for the posts folks, I kind of just had to internally yell at myself over this. Gravity mountain biking is a somewhat serious pursuit of mine & I'd like to find the time to finally get into some racing // practicing BMX tricks. If there's one Olympic sport I'm most comfortable with, it has to be race BMX or mountain bike XC. At least I can still drive my manual car unless the ibuprofen stops working for some reason. I was not happy with the idea of being stuck with my dad's automatic Honda beater.

THE WORST THING ABOUT THIS IS MY INATE COMPULSION TO DO MORE WRENCHING. ***cnc intake plenum & car exhaust + ecu reflash, lighter fork on my new big bike + better wheel set & hub, phone hacks, new computers, software release testing finale*** <~¬ I guess that's the list for now.

Stiches are moderately interesting for a spooky one such as myself. I've avoided them at my peril my whole life until now. It's down to a bee sting or so by this point. I've traded ibuprofen for saison ale & herb no less.

_________________
"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

PS I was a scout, I got gauze on this thing in less than 10 seconds.

_________________
"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

The good news is that my cheap-ish front bike tire was holding air today. I guess the hot car interior was to blame. I'm going to waste money on CO² inflators now. Compressors get pretty cheap too now for a decent little used one.

Rest assured everyone, I'm rather lucky this was not a slopestyle dirt jumper crash.

_________________
"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

Weirdly enough, I figured out how to get my job done next week.

I'll just use my new big screen phone as a Bluetooth keyboard. It's good to be a hacker at times like this.

_________________
"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

I'll show you mine if you show me yours , I friggin cut my hand on a glass earlier.

***preemptively redacted for graphic content I don't feel like getting banned for today***

I ripped the top of my finger across my 3rd metacarpal, but I didn't fracture it & the stitches are only about 1.5cm ultimately.

Once upon a time my 4th left fingerprint got sliced in half when I was cooking something. I don't sweat these things as much as most people, I just knuckle down on myself about getting things done.

_________________
"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

You'll have to PM it to me dude.

Somebody will probably report my post now

I'm calling the right middle my Frankenstein finger now. It was already crooked because of a bike crash without DH gloves & now it might look sewn on.

_________________
"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos