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Originally Posted by uh-oh

dear diary.

monday i was fixing a dent. there was a high crease in a fender, like you pull the low spots out, and tap the high spots in to make it as straight as possible before using body filler to smooth it all out. anyways i was guiding my hammer taps with my left hand, like following the high crease, and i hit the tip of my finger.

murked it. whats crazy is its like next to no power involved. fenders are flimsy as shit nowadays. but literally the two inch little taps, i caught the very very tip of my middle finger. i keep my nails trimmed so i dunno there is maybe 2 millimeters? 3? of skin/meat above the nail if im looking at my hand. but that is what got pinched.

it turned into a big blood blister. i didn't pop it. let it chill. im pretty sure now its all just dead. its all hard now with no feeling and just black. i've shaved skin layers off of it assuming i would get down to the black layer. but i don't want to go deeper now, because since there is no feeling i feel like ima hit too deep on it. gonna just see if it eventually moves to the surface and fades off

It usually does push to the end and then goes, takes about 6 weeks unfortunately but you should be good

If it’s under your thumbnail you could try heating up a paperclip - unfolding it, heat one end, then pushing it through the nail down to the black blister type thing and relieving the pressure. It would be like a miniature volcano, pressure under the thumbnail looking for a way out.