JMT3781 Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Today a spring loaded catch literally went off in my hand when trying to undo an "All in one" PA... the catch went under my finger nail and made a lot of blood come out.. after a lot of bleeding, theres a fair old wack of bruising on the skin under the nail. The nail was pretty floppy, but now its settled back down against the skin tried playing Bass, pretty much a no go, definitely no slap (which i know some of you think is probably for the best ) as its my right hand, index finger. Has anyone done this? what can i expect over the next couple of days? is it gonna fall off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassBus Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Phew! I thought something had happened to Jimmy Nail. Glad he's alright. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMT3781 Posted January 3, 2011 Author Share Posted January 3, 2011 hah! hopefully i haven't sparked an internet rumour.. again.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassBus Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 That sounds painful too. I've never gone that far but have caught my nail on a string and it hurt but not to the extent of bleeding. Might expect it to fall off in good time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skej21 Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Worst one I ever did was unscrew a mic stand too quickly. It came down and trapped the pad of my right hand, taking a chunk out of the flesh. Still have the scar to this day. Bloody painful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heathy Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Ten years ago I stopped playing for three years to concentrate on a professional qualification. The day after my last exam when I was looking forward to picking the bass up again, I shut my right index finger in the car door. It went black and the nail eventually fell off. This took some time. It was as if the nail had died and a new one started to grow underneath. I'm sorry to say this but it took almost six months for it to get back to 'normal'. However, this was a very different type of injury to the one you described. Try to look on it as an opportunity to practice playing with a pick or 'double-thumping'! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenie Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 When i were a nipper,about five or six, i was playing out on the cricket pitch with a bigger boy and we found the drain cover for the sprinkler thingy...well he picked it up, i pointed at it and he let go...my finger that i was busy pointing with got hacked off at the tip! Thankfully the skin didnt fully tear and i ran back to the sports and social club with my finger dangling off of my hand, it was put back on by nice doctors and now i have one index finger slightly shorter than the other. The end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daz Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 [quote name='Heathy' post='1076498' date='Jan 3 2011, 05:16 PM']I shut my right index finger in the car door. It went black and the nail eventually fell off. This took some time. It was as if the nail had died and a new one started to grow underneath. I'm sorry to say this but it took almost six months for it to get back to 'normal'. However, this was a very different type of injury to the one you described.[/quote] Same thing happned to me, mine fell off too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Stu Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Yeah, unfortunately you'll almost certainly lose it - and new one willl grow underneath it & eventually push the old one off - and yeah - it takes weeks/months. The good bit is the more it bleeds at first the less painful it will be, so I was told. I did the classic hammer to a thumb-nail trick a few years ago, it didn't bleed so the local nurse drilled a hole thru the nail with a red-hot pin (straightended paper-clip) to squeeze the dead blood out. Great fun - and it stinks of burning hair! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delberthot Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 i was out on the sauce last night and fell on my arse several times. I managed to get 2 small but stinging cuts right on the tip of my left hand middle finger. Luckily I don;t have any gigs until the end of next month Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassbloke Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 See it as an opportunity to perfect any or all of the following Playing with a pick Eddie Van Halen style (i.e. holding it between thumb and middle finger) Playing using a thumb pick like the guy from the Hamsters Thumb style playing a la sting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 I almost cut my main artery in my right wrist a month ago when I broke a dish washing up - the crockery split in to and my wrist got a 1" long incision in a really dicey place - really put the cramp on my bass playing. The triage nurse reckoned that had it been another millimeter deeper then I wouldn't have driven myself to casualty... It's been glued and sutured back together and in the words of the late, great Zappa, "everything is healing nicely" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
risingson Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 I have a tear under my fingernail at the moment which proved to be difficult playing last night, but that sounds like a pretty outrageous injury. I'd be surprised if you didn't lose the nail... fingers crossed it gets better soon though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 [quote name='skej21' post='1076477' date='Jan 3 2011, 05:03 PM']Worst one I ever did was unscrew a mic stand too quickly. It came down and trapped the pad of my right hand, taking a chunk out of the flesh. Still have the scar to this day. Bloody painful.[/quote] I'm a bit confused with your comment as above your photo it says "attached thumbnail"...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prime_BASS Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 I trapped my thumb in a door once. Everything from the middle joint up was a human flesh soup, with bone for seasoning. The nail had come off and was held back on with sticky tape. The fleshy parts hung together with bits of tendon and the like and the tip bone thing was pushed back into the rest to join it up again. Doctors told me I was lucky nothing broke as it would have taken years to get the use back into it. However till this day I still strictly extending it and bending it backwards. I was 7 when this happened. Also as I work in a kitchen I'm either cutting myself, burning myself or just general self harming during a normal day. Cuts I can handle cuts and burns while playing, after a while I badly notice the pain. I had something similar to this nail think though once, and after playing I ended up with deep abbesses (sp?) near the base of the nail, after I burst them with a needle and squeezed all the puss out, soaked it in salty hot water with a bit of antiseptic for about 45 minutes and the super glued the bit s of nail that were coming loose. Now I just suffer from blisters on my finger tips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigwan Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 I got my right index finger trapped between a car body shell and a trailer once. Nail went totally black (and finger throbbed like a mofo) and came off a few days later. Once the initial pain goes you'll be back playing while waiting for the new nail to grow back, no worries! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMT3781 Posted January 4, 2011 Author Share Posted January 4, 2011 dont want to speak too soon, but i think ive got away with it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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