The pin is out !

Ok, this week the good doctor took out the final pin from my ring finger.  What a painful experience that worked out to be.  It's still a little crooked near the nail, a healing hole in the end just under my fingernail, still won't bend very well at the second knuckle because of the stretched tendons and swollen just a little bit near the tip.   But, other than that, it's perfect!
What a lesson in safety this has been for me with lingering effects on my previously fast typing speed.   Since this problem one would note some of my stuff is mispelled.....i.e. the W's, S's and Z's.
The nurse asked me if I wanted to keep the pin.   What a morbid thought.
I'm just about ready to get back to the hobby of making things again.   Since the finger problem, I've been thinking a lot about projects, all kinds of projects.   I wanted to make another undulating chess table, and an entertainment center, and possibly find more wood for a cypress tree trunk table, maybe with a check large enough to stabilize with a stunningly visual bow-tie or two.
Thanks to Dr. Jon DeVries for all the patience and good work of getting me back to less pain.
Enough of that for now.
Till later........

Ring finger amputation, continuation of the saga....

Ok, here we are, and mid December came and went.   The doctor only removed one pin from my ring finger; incidently the pin that prevented the rotation, he said.   Dr. Jon DeVries refused to remove the second pin due to the lack of bone restoration in and around the last joint of my ring finger.   So, here I am, typing along with the final pin almost sticking out the end and the fingernail hankering to come off.   If you see too many S's or W's in my ramblings, then just ignore it and try to understand....sss.sssss...ww.... It sure takes a while to heal when you get older.....(sigh).  
February is the month, if the pin comes out at all now.   It seems that the good doctor wants to see if the bone comes back by then.   And, if it doesn't, then I'm hearing ramblings of cut it open again and screw it together and yadda, yadda, yadda.....   You know the drill, (arghhhh)
The bigger 30 thousand foot view here is to not let this happen again.   If I'd been a little more careful at the time this happened, it wouldn't have....so to speak.
Let this be a lesson that you don't have to personally experience.   Be careful out there.   The older you get the slower you heal, if at all.   You don't need to become an accident victim in your wood shop.   There are a lot of nice things you can make with this hobby, and cut-off fingers isn't high on the desireable list.  BE CAREFUL and use all of your safety gear, all the time.
Till next time.....