New Year's eve I severed the end of my left pinky.
It was a small wound as wounds go, but its location made for some of the most excruciating pain imaginable. Think finger held in hot coals and electric socket at the same time (the doc said a bone fragment was pushing against the "live" nerve that picks up all the "signals" from under the fingernail).
Anyway, as a music teacher who makes a living with that finger--teaching daily with piano, sax, clarinet, flute, etc.--I'm eager to help minimize scarring and maximize sensation and toughness. As it looks now, with all the skin of the tip sloughed off and most of it numb, I have no idea whether I'll ever get a finger print back, or enough tissue integrity to ever really pound with that finger tip again. (I'm grateful it could be stitched back together nicely, though, and that only about 1/8 inch of bone and tissue is gone.)
I'd appreciate thoughts from anybody who knows about how to maximize tissue integrity and sensation after an injury like this. I don't care what it looks like. I'm just hoping to get back as much function as possible.
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