Michael Strahan's Fingers

The drilling through your fingernail to relieve the pressure with a red hot miniature drill bit isn't that big of a deal at all. Had it done several times when I was still working for my dad in the steel fab shops. Put a cheater bar on a 3/4" nut, the bolt shears, and you smash your finger between the pipe and the conveyor main structural angle. Did that same thing twice in back to back months. One thumb, one middle finger.

The gross thing is when the blood squirts a few inches high and the stench from the burning fingernail. The easiest way to do it is have someone put a lot of pressure down on the knuckle right behind the fingernail. Enough pressure creates enough pain that you don't feel the drill bit burrowing through that tender skin under the nail.
 
That's not as bad as Torry Holt.

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SaltwaterServr;4252264 said:
The drilling through your fingernail to relieve the pressure with a red hot miniature drill bit isn't that big of a deal at all. Had it done several times when I was still working for my dad in the steel fab shops. Put a cheater bar on a 3/4" nut, the bolt shears, and you smash your finger between the pipe and the conveyor main structural angle. Did that same thing twice in back to back months. One thumb, one middle finger.

The gross thing is when the blood squirts a few inches high and the stench from the burning fingernail. The easiest way to do it is have someone put a lot of pressure down on the knuckle right behind the fingernail. Enough pressure creates enough pain that you don't feel the drill bit burrowing through that tender skin under the nail.
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Thanks for the cheery description :)

Fortunately for me, every time I had anything that serious happen, the nail just came off....
 
I bored through a toenail one time using a paperclip heated until it was white hot. It went through my toenail like it was butter. Instant relief.

another time I sliced the skin underneath my toenail to relieve the pressure. #Rambo
 
SaltwaterServr;4252264 said:
The drilling through your fingernail to relieve the pressure with a red hot miniature drill bit isn't that big of a deal at all. Had it done several times when I was still working for my dad in the steel fab shops. Put a cheater bar on a 3/4" nut, the bolt shears, and you smash your finger between the pipe and the conveyor main structural angle. Did that same thing twice in back to back months. One thumb, one middle finger.

The gross thing is when the blood squirts a few inches high and the stench from the burning fingernail. The easiest way to do it is have someone put a lot of pressure down on the knuckle right behind the fingernail. Enough pressure creates enough pain that you don't feel the drill bit burrowing through that tender skin under the nail.
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This is why I work at a desk.
 
Yeah, when I played football and got my finger smashed between helmets, the throbbing pain with my heartbeat got pretty bad after a week or so. So my old football coach grandpa took out his pocket knife and drilled a little hole in it to let the blood out and take the pressure off it. Worked perfectly. :)

Just a couple of years ago when I smashed my big toe, it didn't hurt nearly as bad but it did turn purple and hurt a little bit. I'd read about heating up a paper clip to burn though it, but I couldn't ever get it to work even after heating it up with a torch. Not sure why... Guess it wasn't truly hot enough. :confused: Wasn't a big deal since the pain wasn't as bad, so I just let it eventually fall off.
 
SaltwaterServr;4252264 said:
The drilling through your fingernail to relieve the pressure with a red hot miniature drill bit isn't that big of a deal at all. Had it done several times when I was still working for my dad in the steel fab shops. Put a cheater bar on a 3/4" nut, the bolt shears, and you smash your finger between the pipe and the conveyor main structural angle. Did that same thing twice in back to back months. One thumb, one middle finger.

The gross thing is when the blood squirts a few inches high and the stench from the burning fingernail. The easiest way to do it is have someone put a lot of pressure down on the knuckle right behind the fingernail. Enough pressure creates enough pain that you don't feel the drill bit burrowing through that tender skin under the nail.
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Oh look at mr, "I'm tougher than a football player"! :laugh2:

A lot of my fingers are banged up, luckily I don't have one turned to the side like some of those dudes, but as I type this I've got two sprained thumbs to go with three fingers that will never be straight again, all from basketball.
 
I broke my middle finger playing basketball in High School and played through it. 8 years later, the middle knuckle where I broke it will still randomly swell up for a few weeks given the most minor trauma (like the other day, when I was opening a cardboard box...) and I'm not able to flex it.

I guess I'll just have to deal with it. Fingers are a funny thing: they don't hurt enough or impede enough to bother resting/recuperating it like you would with a broken limb or something, so it's easy to screw it up for the rest of your life.
 
Take a look at Decon Jones hands and fingers sometime. They're all jacked up from his playing days.
 
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