More than month ago (1/11/2021) I sustained a horrific injury to my right index finger.
My husband traveled for 14 day intership and I stayed at home with my 30 month old daughter alone. I was going to prepare the dough for the carrot cakes 
and needed to add blended carrot into the mixture. I used my immersion blender for that. The device obviously jammed and stopped working as the carrot stuck into it. I dont know why but I started to prick it out with my right index finger while still not unplugged it. My left hand held the device and as I pushed stronger inside it and stronger held the device my left hand hit the turbo button accidentaly.
I clearly remember the feeling when the blades went through my bone. The rest I have in mist. I dont know how but I succeeded to unplug the blender and to pull my hand out of the gadget. 
I knew it is rely not good but did not expect a damage in such extant. If you are squeemish dont read further.
Blood gushing and squeezing everywhere, parts of my finger chopped completely off, my distal phallanx hanging just on skin, shattered bone sticking out of the stump used to be my finger. I was going to faint, terrible horror, pure gore.
I felt cold, my bodily hair stood up, my heart was beating frantically. As a nurse I knew pretty well the shock had been starting. I wrapped my hand into towels, phoned 9-1-1 and one my friend to take care about my little princess while I would be receiving medical assistance. The paramedics got to the place quickly. She also to be here for my sleeping little daughter.
I was transported to the emmergency room. The doctor there immediately recognized it will be serious and sent me further to the specialists in hand surgery and traumatology. It was while transporting to the traumatologist, some hour and something after the injury, when the pain finaly stroke me with all its strength. I was in tears, crying like a baby. extremely painful,9 of the 10 on the scale as i told the doctor when he asked me. I heard something about amputation and started to cry even more out of fear I was losing my finger.
The surgery to save my finger took more than 4 hours. As a result, I lost cca 1cm of my right index finger, including the fingertip, fingerpad and the whole nail. The rest was reattached. I had an multiple displaced open fracture of my distal phalanx (which was broken in 4 places), chipped my middle phallany bone off and crushed my distal joint, severed both the tendons, the artery and the nerves. I got two pins in the shattered bones, 26 external stitches and plenty, i dont realy now how many stitches inside.
Next day I woke up in excrutiating nagging pain. Like striking your finger with a hammer constantly again and again. My hand was all bandaged up in extant I did not know whether I have my finger at all. They released me from the hospital bcs of covid regulatory code.
The first weeks after the pain was realy crazy unbearable. The throbbing was killing me. I existed somehow holding my heavily bandaged hand above my heart (because of the extreme pain) i was not able to sleep, to eat with spoon, to put the cloths on or off or to use my injured hand at all. every movement of the hand caused horrible pain (not speaking about touching the finger). the worst was changing the bandages every day or later every second day. ouch ouch ouch.
I am still wearing a gigantic, bulky bandage on my finger and hand and a splint. I didn't get cast because my finger is still very swollen. I underwent another surgery for the DIP joint and the oedema release. My finger is infected actually and the amputation is still threatening. I am suffering in tons of pain. 
The bone is not healing properly yet. I am about to undergone third surgery for tendons. But the damage is permanent and my finger will never be the same again. Last but not least I am unable to function as a mum and housewife.
Please is there someone who went through something similar? What to do for pain relief? How to help the healing? I dont want to lose my finger ...
Write me and share your stories or advices. Thank you a lot.
Yours Emina P.