Partially Amputated Hand-Unwrapping

4 months after accident with table saw, wearing stockinette to keep scar guard (otoform) in place over wrist damage. Video shows me taking off the stockinette and moving the fingers and ring finger stump.

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Education

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• partial
• hand
• amputation
• missing
• fingers
• amputee
• traumatic
• stump
• therapy
• upper
• extremity

[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.

[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.

[AaronSmith0]

You need saw stop.

[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]

@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.