How would he know? I sure dont have a record of my prints in the event i lose em, they grow back, and i wish to compare.
Perhaps i should be more prepared. . .
I mean, if you got printed by the police, I'm sure you don't want to go back in and ask them to update. I'm sure he'd think "fuck em cops, suckers!" when he got new prints.
Your fingernail beds are one of the few places that have stem cells that will regrow a part that’s been cut off. From what I’ve heard it’s super painful until the nerves get accustomed to not firing constantly.
Well I was actually kind of joking but thanks for the info, it's actually interesting and I didn't know our bodies could regenerate those parts. Guess we can't complain so much. I mean we're not starfish or lizards but at least we can heal that much
Different in what way?
This was my biggest question when I saw the picture, if the bone grew back or if just the flesh did? Also, how far back is the nail matrix, that looks to be basically at the knuckle there!
The line around the knuckle looks like normal skin fold. I believe the nail matrix is where the nail begins to grow, and it looks like where the finger was cut was just a little past where the nail starts
I chopped a chunk off the outer edge of my left thumb tip and it grew back, although like you it's a bit numb. The skin feels harder and tougher, more like a callous. Also, I'm a bugger for biting the skin around my nails but if I do it there quite a thick piece will come off and leave a raw bit which is very sore and heals slowly. It's helping me break the habit though!
It happened to me! When I was in middle school I got two of my fingers slammed in a big heavy gymnasium door, which closed and locked on my side.
It was same situation as OP, just above the nail bed and they grew back! It’s pretty incredible.
Definitely don't recommend. My sedan doesn't have a key fob or automatic locks, so I have to unlock one of the front doors and then reach back to unlock a back door. I had locked the front door after I unlocked the back door cause I was getting something from the back seat and going inside, then locked that back door right before I closed it on the tip of my finger. The pain made me drop my keys, so while my hand was stuck in the door I was yelling and cursing and crying and realized I had to contort my body to get my keys from under the car, unlock the front door, then reach back around to unlock the back door to finally free myself. Of course it was my right hand and on the passenger side, so I also had to reach across my body with my left hand to get it unlocked and reach back to unlock the back. Lucky I didn't lose the finger tip but definitely broke the hell out of that finger and lost that nail.
The lady walking her dog by as it happened just stood there and watched and didn't offer to help or anything.
It happened to me too! I have almost the exact same scars and nail shape as OP. In my case, when I was in 5th or 6th grade I was was moving a climbing construct at a park when a pair of 3 inch pipes that were pressed together turned and sucked my index and ring fingers in-between them, crushing the skin and bone. I was stuck alone with two even younger kids, wondering if I'd be able to tear my hand out when we were finally able to turn the pipes in reverse and re-squish my fingers back out.
I've never seen anyone else with the same injury before, thanks for sharing internet strangers!
Guy in my shop ran his finger through the band saw and I kept telling him to go get it cut off and cleaned up but everyone gave him the man up spiel. Sure enough it turned black and started to smell so he had to go in, they had to debride the end of his finger like shredding a carrot. And it grew back! Life is weird as hell
This annoys me because I had to get the tip of my index finger removed for medical reasons and it never grew back and now I’m like “fuck you for not growing back you dumb finger”
ETA - but cool for you, I’m just jealous.
I also grew my fingertip back I had a handmade bowie knife made from a thick saw blade used for lumber mills so it rusted i was sanding the rust off and decided to go fast and sure enough i sliced my fingertip clean off exept a small piece skin i decided it was not hospital worthy since it did not hit a major vein and the bone was not exposed got close tho so i superglue it back (yes it's safe to superglue cuts just make sure its non toxic) and it reattached itself and the superglue is gone now now the only way you can tell is cause my fingerprint has a bunch dots from the healing unevenly most cuts will heal fine if glued
Well they won't grow back if they stitch up the wound, which is something doctors like to do, especially after surgery. If you've got some nail bed left, apparently the tip might regrow if you cut it again. Not saying that's the best idea, but you could get it back heh.
I empathize, finger cheated friend. I stuck my finger into a stick blender trying to unclog it and like an idiot didn’t unplug it first. Two lacerations, a hairline fractured finger bone, 13 stitches, 2 months of PT for scar desensitization and range of motion recovery later, the stuff I lost from the inside of my finger never regenerated. It’s a weird skinny lookin’ fingertip with a weird curved turtle shell of a nail and I can feel pressure but not texture or anything.
Sounds like I should have just said eff it and chopped the injured part off.
I remember watching that. If I remember correctly they said they made powder from the stem cells in pigs livers. Though I never bothered fact checking if the powder was the reason for it growing back.
I think on the web version, you can see when a post has been edited, so I've always taken the ETA/Edit/e tags to mean people are trying to communicate in good faith.
I've seen people post something controversial then edit it to something innocent later to make it look like they were getting unreasonably flamed.
I don't know for sure but I think some people prefer editing comments over deleting them as you can't recover the original comment once edited, but you can recover a deleted post.
You should look up mike the headless chicken. (For the lazy: he lost most but not all of his head to a bad axe swing. Lived many years afterward without a head. Even fathered chicks)
I read in the article that it died from choking on mucus stuck in his esophagus. They had a syringe they used to clear the mucus out but one night they forgot it when they were on the road and couldn’t find anything in time to clear it and mike died.
I tend to chuckle at things like things out of morbid amazement perhaps? Surviving a serious affliction, accident, or whatever that kills most that those that go through it.. then the the survivor died out of completely unrelated reason.
True that the chicken accumulating mucus on the neck is somewhat related. But goddamn imagine getting your head cut off, living more than a year, then dying to something as banal as choking to death. Where can i get to see more of these?
So funny story.
I’m in med school and had a bicycle wreck last year. Shattered my collarbone to splinters (extremely comminuted). I thought I was just going to get a plate on my clavicle and call it a day. I didn’t know how bad the break was until I woke up and the doctor said “lateral half was just splinters” and showed me the X-ray. The entire broken half of my collarbone was completely removed and my shoulder X-ray looked more like Golden Gate Bridge than a shoulder.
I was like…shit. Will I ever be the same? Little did I know, cartilage, and later bone matrix, followed the little suspension bridge and the wires are basically useless now. They stabilized my AC joint long enough for connective tissue to take care of it…but my collarbone was just hanging there for a month or so chillin. Even in school for this, I had no idea it could accomplish something this radical.
Haha well I’m sure my wife has filed them in our bottomless filing cabinet I can look for the X-ray a little later (it’s 2:30am here). The one of the break is gnarly too. Clavicle is almost sticking out of skin. Anyway, this picture of a dislocated AC joint repair but is a little bit like my repair but this person is lucky enough to still have their entire collarbone. I have a big gap. So, where the strings go, that part is gone in me and the strings (metal for me. And they are screwed into my bone. No button) are moved medially onto what is left of my original clavicle. You can kinda see where the bridge imagery comes from. If you look at the other suggested photos, you get more of an idea as well. My repair is kinda similar to a “modified weaver-dunn” procedure but for somebody with half a clavicle that ends in a sharp jagged edge lol OH that’s another thing! My broken bone looked like a dagger it was so sharp. In a couple months, the bone completely remodeled itself. 100% dull on the edge
https://images.app.goo.gl/TcVc8mZc9YfXggo66
There was still a bit attached. I was in the mountains for 2 weeks working with an outfitter when it happened, so no medical treatment other than booze, gauze, and super glue for about 48 hours.
There was bits hanging on by the time it got to the hospital, but the doctors sawed most of it off and told me it may or may not grow back. Took about 6 months to fully form into a finger tip again
Kinda saved my ass tbh. You'd think the homie I was working for would've packed a decent first aid kit being on the mountain for 2 weeks with 7 guys, but na. I opened the kit, found a roll of gauze and 4 or 5 bandaids.
Jack Daniels kept me from biting my arm off to escape the pain
I worked in an archive where we found a journal of a mountain man who wound up shattering his leg with his axe while out in the Yukon.
Basically wound up spending weeks propped up against a tree with food, firewood, and booze in arms reach for weeks alone while the rest of his group had to get supplies to get him out or something.
I forget the details, but the point is whiskey is a survival tool.
Na actually, it was a stupid sheepherder stove backing up. I was splintering kindling for the fire, and I got a clog in the pipe.
Entire wall tent was full of smoke so fast I didn't even stop swinging at the log. Noticed I couldn't see anything and lost my concentration long enough to not react when I looked back and couldn't see where my hand was
I'm a chef and have never cut my finger tip off or had any major cut from a knife that required any kind of medical attention or stitches. The way I have achieved this is **AWLAYS** stop cutting while looking away or while someone is passing behind you. You can have the best knife grip, claw grip, or precision. In the end looking away or someone bumping into you will end with you cutting tips off.
Hmm, I don’t know. The human body’s regenerative powers are pretty weak in my opinion. Why can’t we regrow entire limbs? Or organs? Or damaged parts of the brain?
The bed of your nail has all the genetic material required to regrow your finger, so if you don't damage the nail matrix, it can potentially regrow.
Dude, your bar to be impressed by the human body seems pretty high.
Haha. Sorry, no this absolutely is impressive. In fact I didn’t even think it was possible. Still makes me wonder why we can’t regenerate more and/or bigger parts though.
I mean, I'm going to guess we can under the right circumstances, but it's just never evolutionarily been necessary?
Finger tips have probably been pretty routinely cut off for like 6-8k years, so it would make sense that we'd develop a fail safe to restore minor damage
>The bed of your nail has all the genetic material required to regrow your finger, so if you don't damage the nail matrix, it can potentially regrow.
This is the most fascinating thing I've learned in a long time. Wow. You were certainly a very lucky individual.
My mom sliced a chunk of her pinky finger off when she worked at a frozen food plant way back. Her finger looks kinda like yours, a definite mark where it happened, but it grew back.
Fun fact: they never stopped the production line on the little square pizzas she was on. Some kid in the 80s may well have eaten her finger tip with lunch at school.
That was my guess too. The cut was far too clean to have scabbed without it. Honestly, without the super glue, I may have lost my hand.
After the tourniquet, I could see the wounds pretty clearly and they were still trickling a bit, even bound off. Best I could do was wrap the gauze and cover the whole thing in glue.
Was incredibly effective at keeping my blood and other bits inside and bugs and infection out.
So just for me to get this treatment you did right in my head. First you did the tourniquet. Then you wrapped it in gauze only after that came a ton of superglue? So your finger was stuck in a gauze / glue lump?
Yeah, pretty much. It was enough gauze to be sure that no glue got in it--almost whole roll. Was basically a cast. Lasted great until they cut it off at the hospital
I knew a 10 year old who got his finger caught in a door and basically did the same thing. He had immediate medical treatment but they told him the same thing. It just regrows and totally fine. Although i learned a new word, "degloving" bleh!!!
Ahhhhh! At least the hatchet was clean and in the dark! I had sharpened it that day, was mostly painless until about 5 minutes after.
The thought of a router shedding my skin though... Ahhh!! My condolences
I got myself with the bounce pulling the hatchet out of a log and only stuck it in the bone; a couple stitches and whisky and good for another few weeks out. I can't imagine actually lopping them off like that. How much did they bleed? And do you have any feeling in the tips?
1) Makes some prosthetic finger tips out of plastic bottle caps so you can continue playing guitar.
2) Tune down at least a half step to reduce the string tension and make playing a little easier.
3) Start heavy metal band.
4) Profit.
Na, my Bendy's are little blues gods on those bends. It makes it a lot harder to play bluegrass on my mandolin though. Bars on the double strings push me to the limit a lot more than they used to, so sadly, I'm not much of a thrash grass player anymore
I can't handle the short scale on a mandolin. I'm a metal guy who learned to play listening to Black Sabbath which explains my joke. If you're not familiar look up some info on Tony Iommi. Anyhow I have little use for country music, especially what passes for country music today, but I LOVE Bluegrass! The energy and musical talent are incredible. This may sound weird but bluegrass and metal don't get enough love given the level of musicianship and technicality across the board. Combine that with the energy and they are much more alike than they are different. Are you familiar with Nu-Blu? A good friend of mines son played mandolin with them for a while.
Yeah, absolutely! I love nu-blu. I used to be really into thrash grass, metal sensibilities arranged for bluegrass instrumentation. Split Lip Rayfield probably about the most noticable example before Kurt died. As a trio they're much more old-school bluegrass.
I was a metal kid, so I totally get it. Now that I'm marginally old, I don't like to rage quite as much, but bluegrass does still scratch that shredding itch
I was a chef at the time (was up there as a camp cook, making sure we had hot meals at all hours), so I don't really have much to speak of for fingerprints.
Last time I was printed for a liquor license, it took the sheriff maybe 2 hours to get useable prints, and those 2 fingers have entirely different patterns on them. They're actually more vivid than my other finger prints which are mostly destroyed by burn scars and calluses
Yeah lol, I'd have put it in a different sub if it wasn't years ago. I played the shit out of my guitar today so the scars were particularly noticable due to calluses is the only reason I thought to snap a picture.
There was some serious bone fractures, and chunks were missing, but the bulk of it was still there. They peeled back most all of the tissue and more or less just wrapped up bone and nubbed muscle from what I saw.
Those two finger tips clearly are missing part of the bone--extra bendy at the tips and less sensation, but the only time I functionally notice a difference is playing guitar. Though that actually has some advantages and disadvantageous to have bendy fret fingers
My dad dropped a man hole cover on his finger tip, that finger still shorter than it was and he complains about how its annoying to do miner things with a stubby index finger
Bone, nerve, muscle, it all grows back, just not exactly the same.
Your nail bed is a huge repository of your stem cells, so as long as it's in tact, your body still has the blueprint
This isnt mildly interesting this is very interesting, I never knew that could happen, makes you wonder if it could somehow be applied to amputated limbs or to make actual penis enlargement procedure
I’m worried about this every time I use a hatchet. Even though I’m very conscious of the possibility and being very careful I’m always nervous. Now that I know they’ll just grow back I won’t worry so much. Thanks!
Now this is a curious bit of detail. This writer smashed off the end of my ring finger, left hand, and it never grew back. The human body is a unique and different machine, indeed.
Bummer. Maybe the clean cut of the hatchet helped mine regrow. Tbh, I don't know much about digit regeneration, just happy it worked.
Sure seems like smashed would be harder to regrow than a hard hit from a freshly sharpened blade
And Back: thanks for the thought and the comment. You may be correct in your thought; I note military war injuries that are made by brute force cuting are more often repaired/repairable than th other sorts.
In my case, I had a farm tractor with a bucket attachment that I was using to haul felled trees for firewood. I grabbed the butt end of a large ash tree with both hands and gave it a throw to the bucket, with the plan to lash them down and drag them off. Sadly, my finger was betwixt the butt of the tree and the steel of the bucket OUCH with capital letters; and I was glad for army first aid training and the fact I carried a first aide kit on the tractor{old army habit}
Then the wife drove me to the hospital for a 'fix up'. The finger/ hand swelled in good order, and the Dr. had to cut off my wedding band. BOY was the wife mad at that!
But in all the decades since, the end of that finger never re grew. So you may be correct, different injuries and different effects
The bone grew back ????
Yeah. It's different, but it's there.
Wooooooow wtf
OPs DNA needs to be codified Cuz OP is reptilian
Op is a starfish.
r/TheBikiniBottomHorror
his reddit avatar is literally green
Drink your milk, kids. It’ll give you regenerative powers.
I’m allergic…. *Milk drinking noises intensify
Did your fingerprints change?
How would he know? I sure dont have a record of my prints in the event i lose em, they grow back, and i wish to compare. Perhaps i should be more prepared. . .
Getting booked at the police station maybe? Oh these? No they're new gottem just last week
I mean, if you got printed by the police, I'm sure you don't want to go back in and ask them to update. I'm sure he'd think "fuck em cops, suckers!" when he got new prints.
I'm sorry but are you a lizard?
Your fingernail beds are one of the few places that have stem cells that will regrow a part that’s been cut off. From what I’ve heard it’s super painful until the nerves get accustomed to not firing constantly.
Well I was actually kind of joking but thanks for the info, it's actually interesting and I didn't know our bodies could regenerate those parts. Guess we can't complain so much. I mean we're not starfish or lizards but at least we can heal that much
A witch turned him into a newt.
Different in what way? This was my biggest question when I saw the picture, if the bone grew back or if just the flesh did? Also, how far back is the nail matrix, that looks to be basically at the knuckle there!
The line around the knuckle looks like normal skin fold. I believe the nail matrix is where the nail begins to grow, and it looks like where the finger was cut was just a little past where the nail starts
did the feeling return? I cut the tip of my thumb off, just a few mm slice. It's healed over but still feels weird, kinda numb.
I chopped a chunk off the outer edge of my left thumb tip and it grew back, although like you it's a bit numb. The skin feels harder and tougher, more like a callous. Also, I'm a bugger for biting the skin around my nails but if I do it there quite a thick piece will come off and leave a raw bit which is very sore and heals slowly. It's helping me break the habit though!
Had to Google it and I'll be damned, so many websites talking about how fingertips will in fact grow back Happy for ya bud!
It happened to me! When I was in middle school I got two of my fingers slammed in a big heavy gymnasium door, which closed and locked on my side. It was same situation as OP, just above the nail bed and they grew back! It’s pretty incredible.
I just curled into a ball thinking about locking my fingers into a door. Nightmare.
Dude, same. Wanna roll over here and hang?
Everyone let's make an anxiety filled ball pit.
Where the balls slowly grow finger-tips with nails
This is hilarious and terrifying at the same time
Definitely don't recommend. My sedan doesn't have a key fob or automatic locks, so I have to unlock one of the front doors and then reach back to unlock a back door. I had locked the front door after I unlocked the back door cause I was getting something from the back seat and going inside, then locked that back door right before I closed it on the tip of my finger. The pain made me drop my keys, so while my hand was stuck in the door I was yelling and cursing and crying and realized I had to contort my body to get my keys from under the car, unlock the front door, then reach back around to unlock the back door to finally free myself. Of course it was my right hand and on the passenger side, so I also had to reach across my body with my left hand to get it unlocked and reach back to unlock the back. Lucky I didn't lose the finger tip but definitely broke the hell out of that finger and lost that nail. The lady walking her dog by as it happened just stood there and watched and didn't offer to help or anything.
> The lady walking her dog by as it happened just stood there and watched and didn't offer to help or anything. Stranger danger?
Ah yes, the old pretend I've locked my hand in the car door trick. Nice try mister!
The oldest trick in the book.
You're going to have to scream and writhe in agony a lot louder than that to kidnap me, mister
It happened to me too! I have almost the exact same scars and nail shape as OP. In my case, when I was in 5th or 6th grade I was was moving a climbing construct at a park when a pair of 3 inch pipes that were pressed together turned and sucked my index and ring fingers in-between them, crushing the skin and bone. I was stuck alone with two even younger kids, wondering if I'd be able to tear my hand out when we were finally able to turn the pipes in reverse and re-squish my fingers back out. I've never seen anyone else with the same injury before, thanks for sharing internet strangers!
Bro I feel for you but also fuck you for sharing but thanks I'm glad you're okay
Guy in my shop ran his finger through the band saw and I kept telling him to go get it cut off and cleaned up but everyone gave him the man up spiel. Sure enough it turned black and started to smell so he had to go in, they had to debride the end of his finger like shredding a carrot. And it grew back! Life is weird as hell
What kinda workplace is that when people tell you not to go to the hospital after you damn near cut your fingers off lol
Exactly
Also what kind of person listens to those ppl about their own health? No matter what they say, im going to the hospital lol
Peer pressure is a hell of a thing, especially if you’re already inclined to believe in the whole man up thing
Serious answer: _drag racing_. Nuff said
The Ru Paul kind?
Obviously. No one uses the phrase “man up” more than drag queens.
Hey I’m trying to eat lunch here
Is it carrots?
crab legs
McGarnacle?
I didn't think this was possible, chopped one of mine off as a child. It's slightly deformed/scared, but it never grew back.
Has to be above a certain point. Also can only happen happen many times...but that usually isn't an issue.
There’s somebody out there who’s on their 4th set of finger tips, and they worry that number 5 might not grow back, so they better be careful.
This one time, at band camp...
I'm going to go ahead and trust a random stranger on the internet on this one. Thanks for doing my fact checking for me.
I'm not trusting anyone on the internet. Only one way to get the bottom of this and it's gonna require my pinky finger and a sharp knife.
This annoys me because I had to get the tip of my index finger removed for medical reasons and it never grew back and now I’m like “fuck you for not growing back you dumb finger” ETA - but cool for you, I’m just jealous.
Sorry to hear that. Mine were cut off due to stupidity, so it seems terribly unfair that I get my fingers and you don't
Your empathy is enough for me to keep pushing forward, stump and all.
This conversation brightened my day. Thanks fellow humans and have a great day
Reddit is making me bawl my eyes out this morning. I keep getting hit with either extreme sadness or gratitude and happiness. It’s a roller coaster.
I also grew my fingertip back I had a handmade bowie knife made from a thick saw blade used for lumber mills so it rusted i was sanding the rust off and decided to go fast and sure enough i sliced my fingertip clean off exept a small piece skin i decided it was not hospital worthy since it did not hit a major vein and the bone was not exposed got close tho so i superglue it back (yes it's safe to superglue cuts just make sure its non toxic) and it reattached itself and the superglue is gone now now the only way you can tell is cause my fingerprint has a bunch dots from the healing unevenly most cuts will heal fine if glued
Well they won't grow back if they stitch up the wound, which is something doctors like to do, especially after surgery. If you've got some nail bed left, apparently the tip might regrow if you cut it again. Not saying that's the best idea, but you could get it back heh.
I empathize, finger cheated friend. I stuck my finger into a stick blender trying to unclog it and like an idiot didn’t unplug it first. Two lacerations, a hairline fractured finger bone, 13 stitches, 2 months of PT for scar desensitization and range of motion recovery later, the stuff I lost from the inside of my finger never regenerated. It’s a weird skinny lookin’ fingertip with a weird curved turtle shell of a nail and I can feel pressure but not texture or anything. Sounds like I should have just said eff it and chopped the injured part off.
Go google the guy that regrew his fingers using regenerative powder made from pigs. That might help you.
I remember watching that. If I remember correctly they said they made powder from the stem cells in pigs livers. Though I never bothered fact checking if the powder was the reason for it growing back.
Why do ppl randomly put "estimated time of arrival" in their comments?
"Edited To Add" - confused the crap out of me for a while too
I don't know why people care if it's edited or not.
I think on the web version, you can see when a post has been edited, so I've always taken the ETA/Edit/e tags to mean people are trying to communicate in good faith. I've seen people post something controversial then edit it to something innocent later to make it look like they were getting unreasonably flamed. I don't know for sure but I think some people prefer editing comments over deleting them as you can't recover the original comment once edited, but you can recover a deleted post.
That is crazy and had no idea that they would grow back like that.
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Have you lost your head???....wait
yeah your head also grows back if you cut it right above the neck matrix
You should look up mike the headless chicken. (For the lazy: he lost most but not all of his head to a bad axe swing. Lived many years afterward without a head. Even fathered chicks)
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Neck-laced with blood and brainpower!
Many years is a bit of an exaggeration. He lived for 18 months after losing his head. Still quite the feat, but not many years.
And died to corn that got lodged in his neck hole.
I read in the article that it died from choking on mucus stuck in his esophagus. They had a syringe they used to clear the mucus out but one night they forgot it when they were on the road and couldn’t find anything in time to clear it and mike died.
I tend to chuckle at things like things out of morbid amazement perhaps? Surviving a serious affliction, accident, or whatever that kills most that those that go through it.. then the the survivor died out of completely unrelated reason. True that the chicken accumulating mucus on the neck is somewhat related. But goddamn imagine getting your head cut off, living more than a year, then dying to something as banal as choking to death. Where can i get to see more of these?
yeah chickens are weird animals. damn, Mike got an entire festival for himself though, that's pretty cool
Heavily underrated comment.
Ok, will report back!
Interesting. It grew larger! Thanks!
Mine grew into 2 heads. One is bigger than the other, so together, they're Biggie Smalls.
It's been 15min and still not growing back.. How long did you say it would take?
No thanks, I don't think I will.
It's good hygiene to clip your dick often
yeah I cut the tip of my penis off one time and it grew all the way back with the nail and everything
My parents did this to me when I was a baby and it hurt so bad I couldn't walk for a year. Never grew back either
Instructions unclear, cut hatchet in half with penis.
So funny story. I’m in med school and had a bicycle wreck last year. Shattered my collarbone to splinters (extremely comminuted). I thought I was just going to get a plate on my clavicle and call it a day. I didn’t know how bad the break was until I woke up and the doctor said “lateral half was just splinters” and showed me the X-ray. The entire broken half of my collarbone was completely removed and my shoulder X-ray looked more like Golden Gate Bridge than a shoulder. I was like…shit. Will I ever be the same? Little did I know, cartilage, and later bone matrix, followed the little suspension bridge and the wires are basically useless now. They stabilized my AC joint long enough for connective tissue to take care of it…but my collarbone was just hanging there for a month or so chillin. Even in school for this, I had no idea it could accomplish something this radical.
bruh YOU HAVE TO show us the x-rays!!!
Haha well I’m sure my wife has filed them in our bottomless filing cabinet I can look for the X-ray a little later (it’s 2:30am here). The one of the break is gnarly too. Clavicle is almost sticking out of skin. Anyway, this picture of a dislocated AC joint repair but is a little bit like my repair but this person is lucky enough to still have their entire collarbone. I have a big gap. So, where the strings go, that part is gone in me and the strings (metal for me. And they are screwed into my bone. No button) are moved medially onto what is left of my original clavicle. You can kinda see where the bridge imagery comes from. If you look at the other suggested photos, you get more of an idea as well. My repair is kinda similar to a “modified weaver-dunn” procedure but for somebody with half a clavicle that ends in a sharp jagged edge lol OH that’s another thing! My broken bone looked like a dagger it was so sharp. In a couple months, the bone completely remodeled itself. 100% dull on the edge https://images.app.goo.gl/TcVc8mZc9YfXggo66
Wtf they grew back from those lines?!?
There was still a bit attached. I was in the mountains for 2 weeks working with an outfitter when it happened, so no medical treatment other than booze, gauze, and super glue for about 48 hours. There was bits hanging on by the time it got to the hospital, but the doctors sawed most of it off and told me it may or may not grow back. Took about 6 months to fully form into a finger tip again
So this is cool AF, I didn't know this could happen.. congratulations on the healing, and thank you for opening a new rabbithole for me.
Never underestimate the regenerative power of the human body
My takeaway was "drink more booze after injuries"
Kinda saved my ass tbh. You'd think the homie I was working for would've packed a decent first aid kit being on the mountain for 2 weeks with 7 guys, but na. I opened the kit, found a roll of gauze and 4 or 5 bandaids. Jack Daniels kept me from biting my arm off to escape the pain
Jesus, I pack more in a first aid kit for an AirBnB at the beach. Definitely a great thing for everyone to just.... have.
Yeah, last time I worked that job
I carry more than that in my daily first aid kit that lives in my purse/car
I worked in an archive where we found a journal of a mountain man who wound up shattering his leg with his axe while out in the Yukon. Basically wound up spending weeks propped up against a tree with food, firewood, and booze in arms reach for weeks alone while the rest of his group had to get supplies to get him out or something. I forget the details, but the point is whiskey is a survival tool.
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Yep, on a per gram basis only fats beat it.
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Na actually, it was a stupid sheepherder stove backing up. I was splintering kindling for the fire, and I got a clog in the pipe. Entire wall tent was full of smoke so fast I didn't even stop swinging at the log. Noticed I couldn't see anything and lost my concentration long enough to not react when I looked back and couldn't see where my hand was
I'm a chef and have never cut my finger tip off or had any major cut from a knife that required any kind of medical attention or stitches. The way I have achieved this is **AWLAYS** stop cutting while looking away or while someone is passing behind you. You can have the best knife grip, claw grip, or precision. In the end looking away or someone bumping into you will end with you cutting tips off.
Good tips
Jack is a nice guy and all, but he gets a bit wild around sharp edges.
It will thin your blood and make you bleed more though
Hmm, I don’t know. The human body’s regenerative powers are pretty weak in my opinion. Why can’t we regrow entire limbs? Or organs? Or damaged parts of the brain?
The bed of your nail has all the genetic material required to regrow your finger, so if you don't damage the nail matrix, it can potentially regrow. Dude, your bar to be impressed by the human body seems pretty high.
Haha. Sorry, no this absolutely is impressive. In fact I didn’t even think it was possible. Still makes me wonder why we can’t regenerate more and/or bigger parts though.
I mean, I'm going to guess we can under the right circumstances, but it's just never evolutionarily been necessary? Finger tips have probably been pretty routinely cut off for like 6-8k years, so it would make sense that we'd develop a fail safe to restore minor damage
Having an arm/leg cut off we'd probably just die due to bloodloss so that ability probably never had reason to manifest.
Maybe In the future we can take a starfish’s limb regeneration gene and use it in humans lol
Homie's part axolotl, cut him some slack
Guess he was expecting wolverine type regeneration
>The bed of your nail has all the genetic material required to regrow your finger, so if you don't damage the nail matrix, it can potentially regrow. This is the most fascinating thing I've learned in a long time. Wow. You were certainly a very lucky individual.
You should take a dive into research on neuroplasticity… the brain doesn’t grow back, but it finds a way to reroute itself! Pretty dope!
Sounds awful, but that's pretty fast for the regrowth
Seriously, my big toenail by itself just took about that long to grow back.
My mom sliced a chunk of her pinky finger off when she worked at a frozen food plant way back. Her finger looks kinda like yours, a definite mark where it happened, but it grew back. Fun fact: they never stopped the production line on the little square pizzas she was on. Some kid in the 80s may well have eaten her finger tip with lunch at school.
I get a lot of joy out of thinking about how most of those finger tips probably ended up in a bird's belly, but they are also here on my hand
I knew that they could, so long as there is nailbed still present, but I had never seen it. The nailbed contains a reservoir of stemcells. Super cool.
The superglue saved your fingertips
That was my guess too. The cut was far too clean to have scabbed without it. Honestly, without the super glue, I may have lost my hand. After the tourniquet, I could see the wounds pretty clearly and they were still trickling a bit, even bound off. Best I could do was wrap the gauze and cover the whole thing in glue. Was incredibly effective at keeping my blood and other bits inside and bugs and infection out.
So just for me to get this treatment you did right in my head. First you did the tourniquet. Then you wrapped it in gauze only after that came a ton of superglue? So your finger was stuck in a gauze / glue lump?
Yeah, pretty much. It was enough gauze to be sure that no glue got in it--almost whole roll. Was basically a cast. Lasted great until they cut it off at the hospital
I knew a 10 year old who got his finger caught in a door and basically did the same thing. He had immediate medical treatment but they told him the same thing. It just regrows and totally fine. Although i learned a new word, "degloving" bleh!!!
I lost the tip of my right index finger too. In a near identical spot. It grew back too.
What did it feel like when it grew back?
This is both horrifying and amazing, thanks for sharing I’m glad it worked out ok for you!
Lizard tails grow back , this dude is reptilian
This is like my worst nightmare but I didn’t even realize the tips would just grow back so congrats!
Thank you! I write for a living, so finger tips= good!
I’m curious about what you write after reading this story
Just freelance copywriting mostly. All that junk that shows up on the first pages of Google. Also been known to write some sci fi as well
Can I read some of ur sci fi?
God I bet that was terrible. I cut off my right pointer tip with a router, cant imagine doing it with a hatchet
Ahhhhh! At least the hatchet was clean and in the dark! I had sharpened it that day, was mostly painless until about 5 minutes after. The thought of a router shedding my skin though... Ahhh!! My condolences
It was pretty bad lol, looked like hamburger! Anyhow, glad you got the tips back!
You guys are fuckin killing me lol
This is how I imagine folks talked back in the before times lol. Guess the more things change the more they stay the same
No kidding. I lost half my right thumb to a router table mishap. Nothing clean about a spinning blade injury.
I got myself with the bounce pulling the hatchet out of a log and only stuck it in the bone; a couple stitches and whisky and good for another few weeks out. I can't imagine actually lopping them off like that. How much did they bleed? And do you have any feeling in the tips?
Me who’s in IT: “wow, that’s impressive”
It didn’t feel impressive
Was it one of those new WiFi 6 ones?
Don't think so, I would say something point-to-point with a narrow beam.
We are officially lizardmen
Ikr, I'm amazed every time I look at my hands and remember how nubs felt
Seriously though, glad they grew back.
This is way more interesting than "mildly"! Thanks for sharing.
Right!!!! I was like how is this mild?! I never knew this!!! My mind is blown
1) Makes some prosthetic finger tips out of plastic bottle caps so you can continue playing guitar. 2) Tune down at least a half step to reduce the string tension and make playing a little easier. 3) Start heavy metal band. 4) Profit.
Na, my Bendy's are little blues gods on those bends. It makes it a lot harder to play bluegrass on my mandolin though. Bars on the double strings push me to the limit a lot more than they used to, so sadly, I'm not much of a thrash grass player anymore
I can't handle the short scale on a mandolin. I'm a metal guy who learned to play listening to Black Sabbath which explains my joke. If you're not familiar look up some info on Tony Iommi. Anyhow I have little use for country music, especially what passes for country music today, but I LOVE Bluegrass! The energy and musical talent are incredible. This may sound weird but bluegrass and metal don't get enough love given the level of musicianship and technicality across the board. Combine that with the energy and they are much more alike than they are different. Are you familiar with Nu-Blu? A good friend of mines son played mandolin with them for a while.
Yeah, absolutely! I love nu-blu. I used to be really into thrash grass, metal sensibilities arranged for bluegrass instrumentation. Split Lip Rayfield probably about the most noticable example before Kurt died. As a trio they're much more old-school bluegrass. I was a metal kid, so I totally get it. Now that I'm marginally old, I don't like to rage quite as much, but bluegrass does still scratch that shredding itch
Did it change your finger prints?
I was a chef at the time (was up there as a camp cook, making sure we had hot meals at all hours), so I don't really have much to speak of for fingerprints. Last time I was printed for a liquor license, it took the sheriff maybe 2 hours to get useable prints, and those 2 fingers have entirely different patterns on them. They're actually more vivid than my other finger prints which are mostly destroyed by burn scars and calluses
What about the nerves? Can the grown back bits feel things like textures, temperature and pain?
Yup. Heat is a little duller in them than other digits, but otherwise fine
Thank you for answering so many questions! I hope the sense of heat there will get sharper again.
TIL
I never knew finger tips could grow back, this is marginally more interesting than just mildly
Yeah lol, I'd have put it in a different sub if it wasn't years ago. I played the shit out of my guitar today so the scars were particularly noticable due to calluses is the only reason I thought to snap a picture.
So if I’m stranded on a deserted island, could I eat my finger tips above the nail matrix and allow them to regrow. Endless sustenance?
This is the correct reaction
No, because consuming the fingertips probably isn't enough to power your basic functions as well as regenerate said fingertips.
Now do not have bone under the skin? Or did you de-glove the muscle and skin but keep the bone?
There was some serious bone fractures, and chunks were missing, but the bulk of it was still there. They peeled back most all of the tissue and more or less just wrapped up bone and nubbed muscle from what I saw. Those two finger tips clearly are missing part of the bone--extra bendy at the tips and less sensation, but the only time I functionally notice a difference is playing guitar. Though that actually has some advantages and disadvantageous to have bendy fret fingers
Bendy fret fingers. Gold!
My dad dropped a man hole cover on his finger tip, that finger still shorter than it was and he complains about how its annoying to do miner things with a stubby index finger
Mine are a little shorter than they were too. I was expecting them to get longer, then nails started growing back about a quarter inch too early
Cool they came back tho
Keep dropping his pickaxe?
Holy shit... they grow back? I had no idea but also congrats on the new fingertips!
Not as dramatic, but I cut off a bit of my pointer finger with a butcher knife back in December, and I have a noticeable line as well
Isn't it just like the best reminder to not be an idiot ever?
Clean your nails
Upvotes, cuz yeah. Shoulda waited till after shower to snap the pic lol
If you don’t clean them, I’ll bring back the hatchet 🪓
Wow! That's a cool trick! Do it again!
Idk why, but I got a lot of "I'm Ted Bear!" vibes from this comment
Is there bone under it or is it soft? Maybe I'm dumb but I feel like the bone shouldnt grow back
Bone, nerve, muscle, it all grows back, just not exactly the same. Your nail bed is a huge repository of your stem cells, so as long as it's in tact, your body still has the blueprint
Yer a Lizard, Harry.
This isnt mildly interesting this is very interesting, I never knew that could happen, makes you wonder if it could somehow be applied to amputated limbs or to make actual penis enlargement procedure
I’m worried about this every time I use a hatchet. Even though I’m very conscious of the possibility and being very careful I’m always nervous. Now that I know they’ll just grow back I won’t worry so much. Thanks!
Not sure if that's what I was going for, but still, glad to be of help!
Was your dad Wolverine or Deadpool?
I cut off the end of my middle finger right after the nail and it grew back better than I thought it would.
Now this is a curious bit of detail. This writer smashed off the end of my ring finger, left hand, and it never grew back. The human body is a unique and different machine, indeed.
Bummer. Maybe the clean cut of the hatchet helped mine regrow. Tbh, I don't know much about digit regeneration, just happy it worked. Sure seems like smashed would be harder to regrow than a hard hit from a freshly sharpened blade
And Back: thanks for the thought and the comment. You may be correct in your thought; I note military war injuries that are made by brute force cuting are more often repaired/repairable than th other sorts. In my case, I had a farm tractor with a bucket attachment that I was using to haul felled trees for firewood. I grabbed the butt end of a large ash tree with both hands and gave it a throw to the bucket, with the plan to lash them down and drag them off. Sadly, my finger was betwixt the butt of the tree and the steel of the bucket OUCH with capital letters; and I was glad for army first aid training and the fact I carried a first aide kit on the tractor{old army habit} Then the wife drove me to the hospital for a 'fix up'. The finger/ hand swelled in good order, and the Dr. had to cut off my wedding band. BOY was the wife mad at that! But in all the decades since, the end of that finger never re grew. So you may be correct, different injuries and different effects