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Despite being well trained, I've had one kickback. It put a hole in my garage door and I had to drive to the emergency room in shock to get a partially detached
by droithomme 8y ago
Despite being well trained, I've had one kickback. It put a hole in my garage door and I had to drive to the emergency room in shock to get a partially detached finger reattached. Expensive lesson.
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- DoofusOfDeath 8y agoSomewhat off-topic, but... IIUC, fixing severed nerves in the spinal cord is beyond the state of the art in medicine. So when someone goes to the ER with a cut-off finger, how is it possible for the finger to be reattached, and for the proper nerve connections to be re-established?
- schwap 8y agoI'm not a doctor, but your fingers are operated by tendons attached to muscles in the arm. So possibly the nerves don't need to have the exact proper connections, and the finger can still move.
- hinkley 8y agoNot a doctor, but it was explained to me thus: The peripheral nervous system can regrow nerve tissue but only if it has an intact pathway. So when they sew on a finger, if they can repair the myelin sheath, new nerves will grow down the old conduit at a rate of about an inch a month. So they sew your finger on and you have to wait a few weeks to see if you're going to get any feeling back. That waiting would drive me nuts.
- droithomme 8y agoNot a doctor but my experience was that there was no feeling at all on one side for about ten years afterwards. Feeling it just now, it seems normal to me. There's still a scar though.