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Author Message Cmangeot Username: Cmangeot Registered: 04-2005 Posted on Sunday, December 31, 2006 - 12:49 pm:    Smash injury to my left thumb... no nail left, I took this pic in the ER, Cmangeot Username: Cmangeot Registered: 04-2005 Posted on Sunday, December 31, 2006 - 12:51 pm:    Luckily, it is not my picking thumb! Acetan Username: Acetan Registered: 09-2003 Posted on Sunday, December 31, 2006 - 2:00 pm:    Ouch! It hurts just looking at it. Get well soon. Cmangeot Username: Cmangeot Registered: 04-2005 Posted on Sunday, December 31, 2006 - 3:56 pm:    Thanks Ace!! I am pressing my luck by trying to play, but is is really difficult. Jimih Username: Jimih Registered: 04-2006 Posted on Sunday, December 31, 2006 - 5:27 pm:    Yeah get well soon ! Just missing one day playing really hurts me. So I feel it..ouch ! Fingersmcoy Username: Fingersmcoy Registered: 10-2006 Posted on Sunday, December 31, 2006 - 5:35 pm:    I just ate pizza thanks! How did you do that ? I hoping that is your thumb? Cmangeot Username: Cmangeot Registered: 04-2005 Posted on Sunday, December 31, 2006 - 5:55 pm:    I was doing something nice and giving away a few unused appliances to a friend. He sent one of his delivery persons who was incompetant, and while going up steps, he yanked the hand truck out from under an oven which smashed my left thumb good. Oh well, could be worse. I have my thumb and there are American Service People who come home missing limbs. I have much to be thankful for this New Year's eve! Happy New year to all! Mr_roadstar Username: Mr_roadstar Registered: 06-2002 Posted on Sunday, December 31, 2006 - 6:20 pm:    Cmangeot, I feel your pain! Have patience with it. Keep the circulation up (hot and cold treatments) and let pain be your guide. In September I removed the fingernail from my left middle finger in rather violent and grotesque manner. Ripped it completely out of the nailbed is a more accurate desciption. It was two weeks before I could apply enough pressure to play again. We had to cancel a couple gigs at the last minute because of it. However, it has healed and regrown nicely. Get well soon! The Bear Artfield Username: Artfield Registered: 04-2001 Posted on Monday, January 01, 2007 - 5:32 pm:    Cmangeot, i hope all is getting well a soon as possible for you. Captainibanez Username: Captainibanez Registered: 01-2004 Posted on Tuesday, January 02, 2007 - 5:43 am:    Steve, maybe we should send the poor bugger a Captain Ibanez Repair Package...2 x bottles of Jack Daniels, a bag of ice, 24 can pack of Coke or Pepsi, and some sleeping pills if the JD don't work. Cmangeot...........ouch..ouch...and furthermore...ouch dude ! Get better soon mister Captain Ibanez Fingersmcoy Username: Fingersmcoy Registered: 10-2006 Posted on Tuesday, January 02, 2007 - 8:09 am:    LOL^ Cmangeot Username: Cmangeot Registered: 04-2005 Posted on Tuesday, January 02, 2007 - 9:33 am:    Hey Cap'n, Thanks for the offer, needless to say the celebration of the new year found me imbibing and trust me, I was feeling no pain. But the thumb is healing well. I don't think I will see a new fingernail for a while, but they stitched the old nail into the nailbed to protect it. Still swollen and putting pressure still hurts a bit, but I was playing last night, so it cant be too bad. Happy New Year to all, may we all find many new acquisitions in 2007, and thanks for the kind words! Mr_roadstar Username: Mr_roadstar Registered: 06-2002 Posted on Tuesday, January 02, 2007 - 9:33 pm:    I like the Captain's remedy !! Lt. Cmdr. Bear Bobzilla Username: Bobzilla Registered: 02-2005 Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2007 - 12:08 pm:    Jack Daniels can solve 99% of the world's problems, including that thumb. Sixvsix Username: Sixvsix Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Thursday, January 04, 2007 - 8:23 am:    Mange, Typing is still okay then? Look after that digit six Cmangeot Username: Cmangeot Registered: 04-2005 Posted on Thursday, January 04, 2007 - 9:52 am:    Thanks for the kind words from all, the thumb is healing nicely, however the old nail that they stiched on looks and feels disgusting. The stitches that are under the nail in the nail bed will absorb, but I have to have the stiches in the nail taken out tomorrow. I don't know if the old one will just fall off or what! Cmangeot Username: Cmangeot Registered: 04-2005 Posted on Thursday, January 04, 2007 - 9:57 am:    Hey Bear, is it OK for the old nail to come off? The ER doc told me that if the rear of the nail bed heals, that the nail probably will not regrow. My fear is that if the old one falls off, the nail bed will heal over and never come back. Any advise is greatly appreciated! Mr_roadstar Username: Mr_roadstar Registered: 06-2002 Posted on Thursday, January 04, 2007 - 8:17 pm:    Unless you've done some serious damage to the nail bed itself, the nail will grow back. Mine was completely gone. The Bear Sixvsix Username: Sixvsix Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Thursday, January 04, 2007 - 11:25 pm:    In my experience... don't believe a word a Dr. tells you. Or in other words, ALWAYS get a second opinion. I'm really not kidding this time. six Shel Username: Shel Registered: 03-2003 Posted on Thursday, January 04, 2007 - 11:53 pm:    I'm a doc, and( if you believe me) there's not much you can do but keep it clean and dry, and wait. And my second opinion is ... 'that must have really hurt!' get well soon. Ibnzplyr Username: Ibnzplyr Registered: 03-2004 Posted on Friday, January 05, 2007 - 12:40 am:    Cmangeot: Anybody call you Django yet? Scott P.S. Nothing hurt me ever more than when I lost a nail-- ripped right off in a bike accident! Cmangeot Username: Cmangeot Registered: 04-2005 Posted on Friday, January 05, 2007 - 8:45 am:    Seriously, No Django comments, but I never realized how much pressure I apply to the back of the neck. So in that respect I have been attempting to play without touching the neck. I am just rushing it. With 20+ vintage Ibanez's around the house, it is hard not to rush it. This injury is forcing me to play slow, which I have not had to do since I started playing 25 yrs ago. Normally I am like Shawn Lane meets George Benson or Jimmy Bruno, for the past week I have been playing on the Clapton side. Just as well though, playing different things always gets me out of the practicing ruts that we all tend to get into. (Not being a wimp) Yes Shel, this was one of the most painful things ever. I have broken bones that hurt much less than this. The stitches are out of the thumb and the doc told me to use my judgement to determine when to remove the old nail. Basically he said tape it if I want, or just leave it and let it fall off. Hope no one has to deal with this in the future! Bobzilla Username: Bobzilla Registered: 02-2005 Posted on Friday, January 05, 2007 - 12:32 pm:    On a brighter note... I've never broken a bone, never had to have stitches, never been stung by a bee, I have no alergies, not even to Poison Ivy which I have slept in, along with a bunch of my buddies who all got way f**ked up from it. Why sleep in Poison Ivy? We didn't know it, it was dark, it was Boy Scouts out in the wilderness camping. They strung me up by my ankles up a tree because I was the only one who didn't get it. The ONLY one and yes, I was exactly where they all were. I have never had a headache so I don't really know what one feels like other than I guess it's pretty easy to understand that a headache must be a drag and it must hurt. I have lost a thumbnail though, my grandad slammed the car door shut on a 1964 Ford Falcon station wagon, back in 1965 and my thumb was in the door. The door slammed shut completely with my thumb in there, didn't lose the nail right then though, it got hit with a billiards cue afterwards whilst mucking about with the other kids and then fell off. I suspect that someday soon, I will walk out my front door, get stung by a bee, fall over, hit my head, get a headache and also break my arm in the fall and then land in Poison Oak or something (which I will wing up being alergic to.) Then I will need stitches to patch the bit where the arm bone breaks through my skin. Something to look forward to I guess. Cmangeot Username: Cmangeot Registered: 04-2005 Posted on Friday, January 05, 2007 - 2:04 pm:    Hey Six, I have used all three of those lies at some point, on occasion I have had to use all three at the same time! HAHAHAHA Daveh Username: Daveh Registered: 07-2005 Posted on Friday, January 05, 2007 - 5:14 pm:    Man, that must hurt! I hope you heal fast.

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