Dreams of being a hand model squashed. (Graphic)

[Dsnow9]

I was removing a large Colorado blue spruce this week tangled in some power lines and all kinds of other wires. It was a pain in the ass! I only had two cuts left when my hand modeling career was likely ended haha.

 

[Dsnow9]

I was cutting the piece between the red marks. I had the jump it over the house loop line you see touching the trunk. If it went backwards it would go through the power lines and break a concrete patio and likely end up in the pool next door.

I made my face cut which was about as picture perfect as they come. I almost took a picture but decided there was too much going on to risk it. I made my back cut and then pushed the roughly 600-800lb with my right hand and stabilized with my left had as my guys pulled the pre installed rope I put in the top of it.

Somehow my finger tips slipped their way into the face cut as it closed.
I looked down and all I could see was blood coming through my gloves.

I got down out of the tree and went straight to the first aid kit in the truck and cut off my glove.

 

[Dsnow9]

I was extremely relieved to see that my fingers still resembled fingers. Wrapped them up with gauze and some compression wrap then went and finished the job. 3 more hours of hell until we were finished.

Got home and put new dressings on.

 

[Dsnow9]

Thursday Evening (day of)


Friday morning

 

[Dsnow9]

Saturday evening



Sunday evening after taking a knife to the nails and cleaning them up to see what was really going on now that the bleeding had stopped.

What I thought was a break in the pinky nail was actually the cuticle. The whole pinky nail got ripped out past the cuticle (white area). There is actually a small gap between my cuticle and the nail now.

Time will tell but I feel very fortunate and lucky with how the whole situation turned out so far. Was really expecting not to have finger tips when I cut the glove off.

 

[Wildabeest]

Ouch! Hope it heals up ok.

 

[Jbotto]

Dang man! Hope that hand heals fast! That doesn’t look like it feels great either.

 

[coleslaw]

Count your blessings and your digits. Back in 2007 I got my thumb crushed in a tank hatch while serving in the Army. My thumb no longer works and cold/ damp days serve as a throbbing reminder. Hopefully you get your nail back. Ouch.

 

[perma]

Woo not the trigger finger!

 

[Bluffgruff]

Hmmmm, any hand surgeons on the forum want chime in on this (we should get one of those if we don't have one already)

 

[noharleyyet]

Chills, hope you’ll be ok.

 

[duckhunt]

Dang that sucker is going to be sore for awhile.

 

[Mallardsx2]

OUCH. That looks painful.

Don't put your fingers anywhere you wouldnt....lol Sorry couldn't resist.

Hope you heal up fast!

 

[ccc23454]

Well when i seen topic i thought and expected lost fingers knowing your line of work. Point being could be worse! bet that hurt like a SOB but you still have them. Worse part with finger/hand injuries is when your trying to figure out to how to get it un stuck with only the other hand. So lesson learned, from experiance i have found if you wrap them around a cold cylinder (beer can sized) it will help reduce swelling your likely dealing with today. Heal up and glad its not worse!

 

[elkfanatic]

Ouch!!! Hope it heals up ok.Brings back bad memories of getting my trigger finger and thumb in my 2×72 grinder with a fresh 36 grit belt, only took a split second to completely grind off both fingernails, miraculously they have finally both grown back.

 

[CPAjeff]

Dang man, sorry to hear about the accident. I hope everything heals up quickly!

On the bright side, there are some weird freaks out in this world with crazy fetishes, so don’t give up on the hand model dreams!!

 

[BoulderBulls]

Glad you're making a recovery! Good on you for sharing the story it will certainly prevent another accident in the future. I think more of you, not less for telling what happened.

 

[hank4elk]

"Golly gosh that felt good!" is the phrase not spoken much here.

 

[Addicting]

Bright side is your skinny fingers never had a chance as a man’s hand model. You need fat, scared up, and slightly hairy ones to model tools.

Now with the injury you just a few more twinkies and gas station pizzas to fill them out. Also, slightly less exercise will help to get there. Lol

All kidding aside, I am glad you had digits after taking off the glove. I’ve had that same glove removal end in emergency surgery. It’s not a pleasant experience.

 

[Mallardsx2]