Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: MrBump on May 27, 2011, 02:14:35 PM
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The guitarist in my bass players other band has just had an accident at work - cut of his thumb and most of his fingers in a machine related accident. His fretting hand too.
I don't know the fella - have met him a few times.
Puts things in to perspective... Maybe too much perspective...
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oh, that is nasty. i know they can do amazing things these days, as long as the circumstances are right, so hopefully they can do something with him. probably is the end of his guitar playing though, at least for quite some time.
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Ouch :(
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I think thats one of the worst possible things :( :(
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Jeez - my worst nightmare :(
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Yikes! Hopefully they can save his fingers, but I do fear he won't be able to play again.
My dad lost a finger years ago (lawnmower accident :x ) and they were able to save it, but he never got full mobility back. But maybe medical science has improved in the meantime.
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Jeez - my worst nightmare :(
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well maybe not the absolute worst, but not far off :(
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i have a friend which had some of his fingers blown off in afghanistan in january. they have fitted them all back. He can bend them now, but its still a long road before he can use them fully again
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OWWW.... that's not good. :(
I wish him luck.
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Did anyone watch "Inside the Human Body" on the BBC last night? It was about our defences etc, but at the end there was this bloke in the US who has had a double hand transplant.
I was dumbfounded watching it. Not to mention a little squeamish... I don't fancy the idea of transplants anyway, not even a blood transfusion... but seeing the dead hands dangling before they attached them made me realise I'm not sure I could ever get used to looking down and seeing someone else's hands.
Still, I was stunned that it's apparently possible now. Within hours he was able to move the fingers under his own will...
If they're able to do that, and if the fingers were salvagable in time then I guess all might not be lost. But sheesh, still makes me shudder to think about this poor guy.
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Nasty accident and although I don't know him, I hope that they can do something to make his hand usable.The loss of a thumb is a nightmare- let alone the loss of fingers and indeed, for many of us here it is a sobering thought particularly when we think we are having a bad day.
I deal with many such matters in my job and it always makes me shudder.
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...not sure I could ever get used to looking down and seeing someone else's hands.
You don't know what you're missing! :lol:
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Cripes, that's a bad call. i hope he turns out okay.
and i don't know how you do it afghan but you always have an innuendo up your sleeve.
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My worst nightmare too.
If I would lose all my fingers I'd probably get some sort of prosthetic made that will allow me to play open tunings with and without slide. Or learn to play southpaw and some way to hold a pick.
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Did anyone watch "Inside the Human Body" on the BBC last night? It was about our defences etc, but at the end there was this bloke in the US who has had a double hand transplant.
I was dumbfounded watching it. Not to mention a little squeamish... I don't fancy the idea of transplants anyway, not even a blood transfusion... but seeing the dead hands dangling before they attached them made me realise I'm not sure I could ever get used to looking down and seeing someone else's hands.
Still, I was stunned that it's apparently possible now. Within hours he was able to move the fingers under his own will...
If they're able to do that, and if the fingers were salvagable in time then I guess all might not be lost. But sheesh, still makes me shudder to think about this poor guy.
yeah I saw that, bloody amazing!
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crumbs... and indeed, ouch. That's one of the worst things I can think of to happen. I just hope that they can do something.
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F*ck no... this is terrible... Once I went hangovered-still-drunk on my 1st job and almost cut a steak of my right thumb... was 18... poor dude :(
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A friend of mine who used to play guitar works as a sculptor and does a lot of wood carving,
he too lost half of his middle finger and the first part of his ring finger on his left fretting hand...
he's now bass player in our band :D
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So it turns out that they were able to reattach his fingers.
Apparently, at the scene of the accident the paramedics reattached them. Then when they got to the hospital, the surgens took them OFF again, and then did a proper reattachment!!!
F**k me!
He's apparently got some feeling and partial movement, which may improve over time.
Gosh.
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Good news, but I'm sitting here squirming all over again...
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That's nasty man. Thought about buying him a Django CD, that's what they did for Iommi to make him feel better.
When I was a student, my mate was specilising in Bio-medical engineering, so I got to play with dead peoples feet and hands. It's wired pulling tendons and watching toes curl up......... they do stink after being left out the freezer for an hour or so.
Hope he gets better.
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That's nasty man. Thought about buying him a Django CD, that's what they did for Iommi to make him feel better.
Unfortunately he had to wait 20 years for them to invent the CD player before he could listen to it... :P
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smartarse :lol:
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Sorry. :wink:
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It's for this reason I haven't gone ice skating since learning to play...