Cut the tip off my finger

[Beautifullettuce]

After a too enthusiastic a session with a mandolin and some potatoes yesterday evening, I managed to slice the tip of my finger, diagonally across my nail, clean off. I want to A&E and got cleaned up - boy how it hurts now! Any way, anybody got any clue on what my chances of it growing back are? Or at least not looking freakish - it wasn't a huge amount of flesh - but a good nick nonetheless. The cut didn't go anywhere near the bone. Thanks!

Ow. You poor thing. Can't advise about the growing back part but I am standing here with smelling salts, bottles of water and blankets for those that pass through this thread and faint!

ow how are you now

I did this - a bizarre trimming the edge of the lawn (not something I remotely care about) with the kitchen scissors accident, and I snipped the end of my finger off. With me it was the fleshy bit behind the nail. Bled like you would not believe and was patched up be A&E.

ANyway, teh good news is it does grow back and you wouldn't even notice it had ever happened now. It took a while and felt really weird but don't panic!

Not good I'm afraid. DH did the same with a lathe a few years ago. Didn't touch the nail but cut the whole pad off his finger - no sensation there at all. It was 4 years ago now.

Mine grew back. I cut it off when chopping lemons in a hotel kitchen (lemons! christ that hurt!!!!)

anyway, after I had persuaded the Head Chef that I needed a plaster from the first aid cupboard, he let me leave work for five minutes to go to the office and get it bandaged up. Twat wouldn't let me go home though!

Anyway, it healed with a scab right over the entire cut and for a few months you could clearly see that my finger looked like this: \ rather than this: ) but a few months later you had to look really really closely to see that it was an odd shape.

Now it is normal shape again.

I think yours will grow back.

hi sqonk

hi kt - how're you?

Thank you ladies, you have really cheered me up!

I chopped two of the tips of mine off when I was about 8, trying to put the chain back on my bike, trapped said fingers and the teeth went straight through.

They are back to normal now, but I don't have any feeling in the tip of one of them.

I also chopped the end off my finger with a mandolin, about 7 years ago. I got it stitched back on at A&E, so can't comment on the growing back aspect, but you can still see even now where it was stitched, and I no longer use this finger (baby one) when typing. Wouldn't say it was freakish though, and you wouldn't notice it unless you were specifically looking.

I never knew they were called mandolins until a few years ago. I can't shake the vision of you chopping off your fingers with a stringed instrument

wish I wasn't eating smoked mackeral now!

poor you!

I did exactly the same thing 'bout 6 years ago. Just started going out w new bf, at his flat, says can you slice up some veg on mandolin to make coleslaw (why we couldn't have bought it.......?!), and before I knew it, the corner of my index finger was gone. Got it dressed properly in A&E, and had to bathe it and dress it everyday. Took about three weeks to kind of heal over, can't remember when it started looking normal again, but i can barely see the scar now.