Degloving.
Wearing rings on your fingers is a risky business. A particular risk with sailing is that a line can get snagged on a ring and pull it off. Along with the skin, and flesh, of the finger it sits on. The only surgery you can have to fix it is to have the finger amputated.

Look it up on google if you like gory pictures.

It's also a good excuse to give the misses for not wearing a wedding ring.
(Woodlouse say it with flowers. Send her a Triffid, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 20:06, 25 replies)

Wearing rings on your fingers can be dangerous
when sticking your fingers up a dog's arse, too.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 20:54, closed)

it works without rings too.
3 weeks ago i severed a finger and partially degloved another on a palisade fence. it fucking hurts.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 20:58, closed)

I used to teach First Aid in the RN and had a quite extensive collection of pictures.
Your mention of degloving has reminded me of one of those.

It wasn't a ring, it was his watch and took off most of the skin of his hand.

Because I only had the phot i didn't think it qualified as a proper story to post.
(Docofair, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 22:02, closed)

3 weeks? Get to the hospital straight away.

( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Sun 8 Sep 2013, 22:02, closed)

i got to go in an ambulance with blues and twos.
4 hours of emergency surgery and a week in hospital on sweet, sweet morphine. they saved my finger and did a tendon repair on the other one. two more ops and a skin graft to go. don't trespass, kids.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Mon 9 Sep 2013, 8:34, closed)

I'm sorry to hear that you injured yourself breaking into somewhere.
3 weeks ago i severed a finger and partially degloved another on a palisade fence &
don't trespass, kids.

Maybe not trying to "break" into someone else's property might be the solution.
I might be generalising here but... I imagine the majority of people who aren't bitter mental cases who regularly perform B&E's wouldn't have many problems with fences.

Glad to see that they managed to save your ability to type tho.
Oh and since you've regularly lambasted me for my drinking habits - good to see you're enjoying the opiates so much. ;]
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 8:57, closed)

QUICK! MAKE IT ALL ABOUT YOU!
Shut the fuck up and fuck the fuck off, you fat tragic mental cunt.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 13:07, closed)

(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Wed 11 Sep 2013, 6:43, closed)

and ringo - trespass is a civil offence not a criminal one.
sorry to spoil your weird burglary fantasy.

also, please fuck off.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 18:09, closed)

Oh.
Well. That's ok then.
See I thought you might not have been jumping over someone else's fenced boundary in order to perform some good deed or public service. And since the majority of people who own/lease property would prefer strangers not attempting to illegally enter said property, then placing a fence in the way of would be fence climbers should surely be enough of a deterrent. Strangely enough most people who scale fences in order to gain access to other peoples property fail to do so for entirely altruistic reasons, so you can see where my confusion may have arisen from.
Since you clearly were there with no nefarious motives, then I trust there were no police involved to charge you - civilly of course. If it was your fence you jumped over - considering the consequences, I sincerely hope you don't lose you keys too often!
Either way I'm glad to hear that they've reattached your finger and I hope the recovery and rehabilitation process is not too long or too painful.
Cheers.
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Wed 11 Sep 2013, 7:33, closed)

Always the bridesmaid.
:(
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 22:34, closed)

I found a duckling (Bob) a couple of years ago, hanging upside down from a thorn. Bob had successfully degloved his foot from about halfway down the leg to the toes - I took him to a vet, who reckoned she could just sort of roll it back up like a sock, put in a couple of stitches, and all would be well.

I hope they didn't just wait until I was gone and cut his fucking leg off :(
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 22:41, closed)

Amputation isn't the 'only' treatment for a degloving as the OP suggests...
...there's frequently the options of a skin graft and/or flap(a tissue transfer or rotation) available as well as the aforementioned 'quick stick it up back on again' if you're fast enough.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Mon 9 Sep 2013, 7:49, closed)

Whilst this is very good news for people in general, I don't expect they'd have bothered with the other options for Bob. For one thing, I only gave them 15 quid as it was all I had in my pocket, and for another, duck is delicious.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 0:55, closed)

I get round this when sailing by wearing sailing gloves.
It seems a simpler solution. Especially as degloving is a minimal risk compared to burning the fuck out of the palms of your hands all the time.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 9 Sep 2013, 13:20, closed)

I've heard various gory stories...
In addition to the classic the OP speaks off (we called it de-bagging, but meh) there was a guy who was standing next to an electric deck winch, whilst wearing baggy trousers. So, yeah, his trousers got sucked in, then his ankle. The winch was in low gear (slow but very powerful) and there was no kill buttons anywhere. Idiot.

Another was a guy who was by the rig when the shackle holding a block at the base of the rig broke. The halyard (I think it was the kite) immediately snapped to a straight line between the sheath and the clutch on the deck, snapping this guy's leg off like a twig. I know that he was airlifted off, and I think he lived, don't think they managed to get it back on.

Ah, found a link to the first one. Can't find t'other. www.yachtingworld.com/supersail/news/417697/shipman-cup-marred-by-accident
( kappynitty doubled your entendre on, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 7:41, closed)

The first one was an interior designer?
I guess it's true what they say about women on ships being bad luck.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 10:34, closed)

Was in an inshore race in the Solent with the kite up
and the girl on foredeck duty stood up to see the sail shape better and shout something back to guy flying it. Just as the forestay broke at deck level. How it didn't cut her in half I have no fucking idea.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 10:50, closed)

Actually came very close
but no cigar.

I was linishing some brakes whilst working in a wheel chair factory. I had gloves on (even tho you're not supposed to when working with any rotary based machine). However linishing hundreds of small pieces of metal tends to make them.. well hot. Usually too hot for you to hold each one with your naked flesh.
I'd turned the machine off and turned to the bloke performing the same job next to me (with gloves on no less) to say something when then end of the mounted belt sander caught my ring finger and ran it thru the smaller drive wheel of the sander (which was still moving).

Que me finding the palm side of my ring finger facing as I looked down onto the top of my hand just out of the glove.

Spiral fractures hurt yo.
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 8:22, closed)

¿Qué?

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 12:56, closed)

They should have amputated you and saved the finger.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 13:09, closed)

QUICK! MAKE IT ALL ABOUT ME!

(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 13:35, closed)

No, that's not really how that works.
Everyone is sick of you, just fuck off.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 13:51, closed)

So by "everyone" is sick of me
do you mean all the people who have clicked "I like this" on my stories enough times that they've been posted on the popular page for a few weeks running now?
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Wed 11 Sep 2013, 7:54, closed)

there's a fair bit about degloving
in the Stephen King book, Gerald's Game.
sadly, it's the only reason to actually read the book.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 15:11, closed)