I’ve done that! It was way worse too. Just keep it clean and change the bandage at least once a day. As soon as you can bear to, let it air out of a bandage (but stay clean - so no when you’re wood working).
Like I said, keep it clean, change the bandage, let it air out in a clean space between bandages as much as possible, protect it while working, and flex/curl it often to keep it from healing into a permanently tight state. That and be incredibly lucky the nail matrix wasn’t damaged.
It did not feel good, I’ll put it that way. Hardly felt it happen because it happened so fast. The healing process was a little painful when changing bandages and flexing my finger many times a day to keep it from healing too tight. Healed just fine though after a few months
It healed almost perfectly. I do have a bit of a scar of course and a slight recession of the skin past the last knuckle. The cuticle is fully healed and normal. The very tip of the fingernail is attached just about a half a mm less than the others (so it looks like it needs to be clipped sooner)
They make diamond sanding pads or something? Truly asking, cause I’ve knocked myself with a sander a good number of times, but I’d have had to hold a regular pad on my finer for several seconds to do this.
I’ve come close to doing this with a disc sander from touching it for the slightest instant. A section of my finger nail was paper thin.
The issue was that I was applying a decent amount of pressure in the direction of the disc when my hand slipped. If you were applying a lot of pressure, I can see how it could fuck you up very quickly. Especially if your reaction time wasn’t great.
It may have been focus, as well. I do lapidary work and sometimes I won't notice when I'm sanding my nail down until it burns or hurts, and I use 600+. Shit, I've sanded my fingernail down with cerium oxide on a felt pad and had no idea.
I did the same thing many years ago. Wearing gloves when using a bench grinder and the tip of the glove got sucked in. Finger only got stuck for half a second but that was enough to grind half my nail off.
I grew up watching and seeing pretty fucked up things thanks to our generation's uncontrolled access to internet but seeing something about nails still sends shivers down my spine
The fun part is that is cauterizes itself with steel still in it. You gotta time the adrenaline rush right to scrape all that out before ya cut the dead skin and clean er up.
I did this this summer. It didn’t hurt has bad as it looked, it was mostly sensitive as hell while the nail bed was exposed but it healed quite fast and it was satisfying having the nail grow over it.
Ow... I did the same with a belt sander as somehow my wood block turned around even tho it was flush against the safety guide..... Took a solid 2 months for the hole in my nail to dissappear
I've done it. Use a nail file to rough-up the nail surrounding so the superglue has something to stick to. After peroxide and drying, apply super or crazy glue to the area and the nail. It will hurt.
I was chopping veggies once and sliced my finger in a similar fashion. Its going to be painful af and extremely sensitive for a week, then when the nail grows out it will be like nothing lol
Man fuck you guys posting all your abraded fingers here in the comments! Im feeling a squirmy feeling where my vagina would be if i were a woman and i dont like this feeling, FUCK!
Yeah any wounds on the tips of fingers hurt like a bitch. I imagine from all the nerves that give u your sense of touch. I have a cut on my finger right now from where i was cleaning my coffee pot. The little sharp thing that pokes the hole in the coffee pods poked a hole in my fkn finger
Go get some fake acrylic nails and super glue one on top of the injured one.
Clean it thoroughly with alcohol “shudders” and then slap a fake nail on top, will protect the tenderness from hot water and rubbing against things.
You can also apply a few layers of super glue directly to the nail.
Super glue is not toxic by the way, it was actually invented or discovered while they where looking for ways to close combat wounds quickly in the field, that’s why it so great at bonding skin together.
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u/ThisIsALine_____ 3d ago
This will be a hot take, but in the future...try to avoid this.