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So I've been working on the upstairs shower for ... oh ... about 2 years now. Today, I decide it's time to put up the concrete backer board. Man, that stuff weighs a ton and I'm working alone. Come to a point where I need to nail in a bit of 2x4 in a certain spot to have wood to screw into.

BLAMMO! Hammer right on the left index finger!

Right on the nail ... the finger nail that is. Turning purple now - pressure building - man I hope I can play through this.

I gotta start hiring this stuff out.

Winder wrote:So I've been working on the upstairs shower for ... oh ... about 2 years now. Today, I decide it's time to put up the concrete backer board. Man, that stuff weighs a ton and I'm working alone. Come to a point where I need to nail in a bit of 2x4 in a certain spot to have wood to screw into.

BLAMMO! Hammer right on the left index finger!

Right on the nail ... the finger nail that is. Turning purple now - pressure building - man I hope I can play through this.

I gotta start hiring this stuff out.

Did something very similar to my thumb nail a couple of years ago, and watched it turn 4 shades of ugly, and eventually fall off. What grew back looked like some sort of radiation accident, until a normal nail decided to show up. Its gross, it hurts like fuk, and you'll remember you did it EACH AND EVERY TIME you bang that finger into something.

Ouch! Sorry to hear that. If you are like me you'll never learn. I try to do everything myself. Whenever I'm cutting wood or working on cars I'm always thinking in the background "Am I ever gonna play again". Fortunately my day job is low risk.

I took a big chunk out of my "bar chord" finger on the back of a chop saw. Looked like a shark bite. Went to the ER. The Tech asked if I cut it or hit. I asked why? He said the finger tip bone was shattered. I said "Oh, that's where I hit it with the hammer last week!"

i hit the thumb of my fretting hand a few years ago. there was no aparent nail damage, but i think i have finally gotten rid of the damned fungus that's been growing under the nail.

i refused to visit my doctor. i thought it would grow out in no time the treatment that worked is cutting the nail short on a regular basis and rubbing vicks chest rub into it (there are two essential oils in it that are anti-fungal). top notch stuff!