Partially Amputated Hand-Unwrapping

[AaronSmith0]

You need saw stop.

[DodgeCity111]

@rextangle8 Well said. My hand went into medical waste but do you think the videos you have been so good to show us have helped your own rehabilitation?

[rextangle8]

@DodgeCity111 It's sad that the body parts that are removed from us are also not returned to us, but that's the medical community for you. As far as the videos helping my own rehab, yes, I think they have given me a boost in self confidence and pushed me to try things I normally wouldn't. For example, since I'm right-handed, I normally wouldn't try to write left-handed before the amputation, but afterwards I thought it would be a good challenge to practice at it for awhile & share it on YouTube.

[Aubbs1]

Yesterday while I was at work my grandfather cut the tips of his three middle fingers completly off eith a table saw. They amputated them down to the joints. I spent all night at the hospital lol. He's ok now though, although I he lost so much blood yesterday we thought he mite not make it. We waited three hrs before they took him into surgery. They did skin graphs to cover the bones.

[rextangle8]

@DFscapers - I didn't 'lose' fingers, I know right where they went.

[MisterFallout]

What happened?



[rextangle8]

@MisterFallout In my case I was using a table saw and had an accident with it, where my inattentiveness cost me a chunk of my wrist and the entire little finger and most of my ring finger through two separate surgeries. The surgeon removed the damaged little finger in the first surgery on the night of the accident and tried to rebuild the ring finger. The ring finger was amputated 4 days later when it was found to not be viable.

[kiddkutt]

I just had surgery today. I lost about an inch of my thumb to a tablesaw. Good luck with the recovery. im hopefull ill be able to use whats left of my thumb and get used to it

[rextangle8]

@kiddkutt Best wishes on a speedy recovery from your surgery. I've adapted well to the amputation of my fingers and I'm sure you will also. It's no minor adjustment, but in time you'll find it fairly easy to continue life with your shortened thumb. Feel free to stay in touch if you like.

[sakiLOVER]

yeah the only experience like this i ever had was when i had the hedge clippers on the garbage can and the braches being cut > with my thumb parallel it cut ym thumb down the middle now im missing a piece of the bone there and you can see how its flat and scarred hope everything healed as planned though friend!

[rextangle8]

@sakiLOVER Thanks for the kind words, I've adjusted to the amputated fingers being missing, it's been 4.5 years now, things have been healed for awhile and the only remaining sensations are when the stump of the ring finger is massaged or the nerves immediately under the skin of the skin graft are raked by a finger or similar. It feels weird, but not painful. I'll occasionally get some phantom pain when I overwork the hand doing something mechanical or doing alot of manual labor like gardening.

[ishouldplayzelda]

i'm semi-scared of table saws now

[rextangle8]

@ishouldplayzelda I can understand your position on table saws, as they can be dangerous if mishandled or not approached properly. However, I've since used the same table saw I was injured with many times since without incident. It's a machine that demands respect, and when not respected you could end up like me or worse when it bites back.

[ishouldplayzelda]

@rextangle8 i'm really clumsy so i think i'll stay away from them all together for my own protection

[hjones1]

Gads, that's horrible. I almost did the same this outside with the hedge clippers. What a horrible thought.

[rextangle8]

@hjones1 I'm glad you didn't get tangled up in your hedge clippers. Let my example be a lesson to you - I've adjusted to the missing fingers, but it would've been easier if I never had to adjust in the first place.

[latatae]

at least he can still make the F sign

[Scris101]

i hope he uses his right hand....

[rextangle8]

@Scris101, I still use both hands - this partially amputated hand is still quite functional even though it's missing the entire little finger and all but 1.5 inches of the ring finger. I was able to remove, tear down, reassemble, and reinstall the 4-speed automatic transmission in my rear drive 1988 Cutlass just 6 months after the amputations as an example of how usable the hand still is. I surprised myself with that project, and have continued using the hand as normally as possible since.

[autobotbazooka43]

that sucks, now u cant put on ur wedding ring :(

[rextangle8]

@autobotbazooka43 I second that emotion.

[autobotbazooka43]

that sucks, now u cant put on ur wedding ring :(

[rextangle8]

@autobotbazooka43 thankfully I didn't plan on ever wearing a wedding ring again. If I do, I'll have to get a larger one than I originally had since the surgeon joined some hanging muscle to the side of the finger stump, it's now fatter than before.

[Gameboykd]

@rextangle8 cant you put it on the other hand?

[rextangle8]

@Gameboykd Sure, I could put another wedding ring on the other hand, but I never plan to get married again, so that solves that issue. Good idea if I had wanted to wear one, though.

[coolbranxx]

ouch bet that fucking hurt, man i bet its hard to grip things or take things off like a coke cola bottle top

[rextangle8]

@coolbranxx Hey there, thanks for the comment. I'm finding it pretty strange, but I can actually get lids off jars and coke bottles & beer bottles much better with the hand with the amputated fingers than I can with the uninjured hand. I can't explain it, but that's how it's working for me. I'll see if about posting a video of me doing this. Rex.

[coolbranxx]

@rextangle8 ok, ill subscribe ^^

[rextangle8]

@coolbranxx Thanks for subscribing, hope you enjoy the content.

[hunterziegelmann]

You could get a terminator hand :D all they need to do if make the hand and use thread attached to pre-existing tendons/liggaments and hook up the hand and VIOLA your terminator!... in your hand.

[rextangle8]

@hunterziegelmann , sure is an interesting item- wish it would work that way

[rextangle8]

Hi Roythe666, my pinky knuckle is half there - what the surgeon did was remove the damaged finger at the joint where it meets the palm by just cutting through the softer tissues that join the two bones together. That is known as a disarticulation. For the ring finger, the bone was actually cut right below the damaged portion.

[billsang1]

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES lol jk man jk no hate but damn that muct suck u proly have no grip with that hand at all..

[rextangle8]

billsang1: I thought I'd end up with no grip with the hand afterward also, but in grip strength tests at the hand surgeon's office 4 months after the amputations, I was able to generate grip strength numbers in the 92-98 pound range, which is nearly 90% of the grip in the unamputated right hand.

[seumas2]

which will never deviate from the parallel.

This portable light weight technology cuts sheet material to 4ft. on center requiring no large

permanently mounted side or out-feed extension tables

World wide there are hundreds of thousands of table saws with the old dangerous technology out there. Sawstop at

this time cannot retro-fit these saws. Buy new not necessarily, retro-fit available yes (plans)but don't be

complacent and keep your wits about ye, slainte mhath macduff

[seumas2]

which will never deviate from the parallel.

This portable light weight technology cuts sheet material to 4ft. on center requiring no large

permanently mounted side or out-feed extension tables

World wide there are hundreds of thousands of table saws with the old dangerous technology out there. Sawstop at

this time cannot retro-fit these saws. Buy new not necessarily, retro-fit available yes (plans)but don't be

complacent and keep your wits about ye, slainte mhath macduff

[belminthedominator12]

dude you better dont joke with that its not funny jackass

[rextangle8]

belminthedominator12, I'm okay with the comments by

NintendoUltimaStudio, there's no harm done.

[belminthedominator12]

aaaahhhhhhhh

[NintendoUltimaStudio]

That'd be cool if you had your pinky and a hidden blade, then you'd be even MORE BADASS!

[rextangle8]

NintendoUltimaStudio, I like your idea, I'll have to see if I can whip up something like that. Have a Happy New Year 2010

[NintendoUltimaStudio]

@rextangle8 An Assassins Creed fan too! Yeah it's pretty easy to make of your using a drawer slide :D just make sure you don't really kill anyone with it...ow.

[okan931]

cmon just eating ice cream and pops up this fuckt up shit!

[rextangle8]

@okan931, hope my gnarled up hand didn't make you toss your cookies. Imagine living with it 24x7.

[MrBloodyGulch]

i guess i forgot tot the comment

[MrBloodyGulch]

srry i left that comment on wrong video srry but i am srry to here about your hand

[rextangle8]

MrBloodyGulch, I don't recall seeing the comment you are referring to, but thanks for the kind words.

[78jor3]

that's too bad man what did you do?

[rextangle8]

78jor3, I had an argument with a table saw, and I didn't win. It chewed up the wrist, eating a big chunk and causing some nerve damage, and mangled the little finger and ring finger, necessitating their amputation.

[XzumiezX]

High three and a half!

[rextangle8]

XzumiezX, thanks for the High three and a half! - I wish I had 3-1/2 fingers remaining on the left hand, but the ring finger stump is less than a quarter of it's original length, so I'll give you back a High three and a fifth!

[cockyeyeball27]

that sucks a fat 1 now u cant masterbait

[rextangle8]

cockyeyeball27, luckily I still can, with both my right hand and my partial left hand, it's just a bit different now!

[rextangle8]

xSARGENTxTACOx, Ah ha - thanks for the explanation. I don't think I would've figured that one out without help. I'll have to check out that movie, I don't see many hands like mine around. Luckily I don't play a guitar so the fingers being truncated hasn't affected much of my ability - still can do all the wrenching on the cars that I need to maintain/improve them as desired.

[rextangle8]

xSARGENTxTACOx, thanks for posting a comment. I only wish I knew if you were stating some part of my hand now resembles a prawn, or something else.

[ALVHUN]

Have you considered using "Pixie Dust" to try and regrow those two fingers? Google "pixie dust limb regeneration" to find out more. The military is using this procedure. In comparison my losing a fingernail is small potatoes compared to others who have lost digits and limbs. I can tell you though that the finger missing the nail is no fun. It is very sensitive and some amount of nail slivers still grow and is quite painful when it gets caught. This has been my small pain for almost 30 years.

[rextangle8]

no valid hits on the pixie dust search, ALVHUN - would be nice if it worked, though.

[ljsavmech]

My wife an I argue about me never wearing my wedding ring and I try to explain to her that an industral area is no place for rings. I don't wear it after work because I know I will be prone lose things. Thank u for giving me the courage to stand frim. Hey now you can become a shop teacher.

[rextangle8]

ljsavmech, I'm glad my situation could provide you with additional ammunition in your discussion with your wife to stay safe in the workplace. My ultrashort ring finger stump is now too fat to fit my original wedding rings, but since I'm now happily divorced, that's a moot point.

[bigdaddyx2009]

Thanks for sharing.

[rextangle8]

You're welcome, bigdaddyx2009 - I thought it might help others in a similar predicament.

[born2bewilddude]

what happened to your other two fingers

[rextangle8]

I had an argument with a table saw during a construction project and mangled my wrist and the two fingers. Two separate surgeries were performed to 1) remove the mangled beyond repair little finger, stabilize the wrist damage and piece together the ring finger, and 2) perform a full thickness skin graft over the vacuumed out wrist damage and remove the ring finger which ended up not responding to the initial treatment.

[rextangle8]

beef5201, I agree with you about those two fingers being relatively dispensable - if you had to choose two! I've found that those fingers being amputated didn't hold me back much when I rebuilt my transmission 6 months after the accident. I do get occasional phantom pains, mostly when I've overused the remaining portion of the hand and gotten it fatigued. But then there's the odd times that defy explanation, too.

[scalliwagrx8]

I just lost half an index finger and my middle finger from about the midway point down they were able to reattach , tendons, nerves, and whatever to fix/rebuild the blood vessel. But they say time will tell on how that went. This was only 4 days ago. Anxiety and depression quickly set in. They put me on xanax to knock the edge off. How did you do at coping with everything after the accident? I'm not up to having friends over. I don't like talking about it. thx

[rextangle8]

scalliwagrx8, I'm sorry to hear of your tangling with something that mangled your hand. I wouldn't wish it on anybody else. I wish you the very best outcome on the reattachment surgery. I found that the initial difficulty of accepting the accident and loss of fingers was helped greatly by the hand therapy that I had. It allowed me to regain lost function in the hand and helped me gradually accept the fact that there's no changing what happened and that I needed to make the best of the situation.

[krasusboy]

does it feel like its just completely numb and u cant feel it?

[rextangle8]

krasusboy, right after the accident the ring finger stump and the left side of the palm were very low on sensation. The feeling in the ring finger stump has slowly recovered, it took about 8 months to get somewhat normal feeling in it.

[rextangle8]

There is significant nerve damage from the mangling that occurred in the wrist area which prevents returning the feeling along the left side of the palm, both on the face of the palm and the back of the hand below where the little finger was prior to it being disarticulated at the MP (metacarpo-phalangeal) joint. It's been 3+ years since the accident and subsequent amputations, so I doubt that area of the hand will ever lose the numbness.

[krasusboy]

ok, thank you for the reply

[rextangle8]

happy birthday - I'm glad I could make it special for you.

[leonidmilman]

OMG U FREAK UPLOADED A VIDEO ON MY BDAY

[rextangle8]

Jake, thanks for the comments - I'm doing okay, some things will never be the same like trying to hold a wet bar of soap, but they're minor in the grand scheme of things.

[enterthafatass]

as long as you arent put into jail you should be fine....

[adept91]

I'm thinking you should be fine with a bit more time to heal. Your grip isn't affected and you still have the 3 most important fingers for gripping. I'm not sure about the middle finger's strength though, because the ring and middle fingers share similer tissue for movement.

[jimdunlop04]

if you wanna give someone the middle finger, use your index.

[rextangle8]

Using the middle finger is still effective on the amputated hand.

[Csabika30NY]

I tried to post something I couldn't.

[rextangle8]

Csaba, I need to approve the potential posts to my videos - you did just fine.

[Csabika30NY]

rextangle8: I am deeply sorry about your loss. I lost the tip of my thumb from finger nail, about 2 weeks ago.I have a mini mill in my garage and I was milling some 4x4 wood, cutting out some nutches.Wanted to check if I milled the piss to the line that I drew. Lifted the quill with right hand, put my left thumb on the milled edge, then God knows why the quill came down with a spinning 1 dia. End Mill.

[tommy21992]

i feel your pain you must of gone through

i got my pinky amputated with a band saw almost a year ago i hit a knot in the piece of wood i was cutting and jerked the wood and my pinky stright into the saw it hurt

[rextangle8]

tommy21992, I feel your pain, too - I hope the rest of your hand escaped injury and that it's otherwise functioning well. Thanks for commenting.

[daffodildeb]

My husband lost a finger on his right hand nearly 40 years ago in an industrial accident. He has had no trouble.

[rextangle8]

13thVulture, no it's not hard to get by missing the 2 fingers. After going through hand therapy to rehabilitate the hand, my grip strength in the left hand was found to be nearly as strong as the unaffected right hand. I find it difficult to count change with the left hand and for holding some things, but otherwise I'm not very inconvenienced by the loss of the 2 fingers

[backparkn17]

good to see you have good function with the remaining fingers