Silver Flyer- I hope you recover ok! I too have had a prop bite, but a very small one compared to yours. I was bitten by an OS .25 (at idle) on the corner of my thumb. It severed about 1/2 inch of it almost all the way through, and through the nail. Stitches, blood, you know the rest. It was numb for about 3 years. This thread is, however, one of the reasons I fly gas only. Electrics starting any time scare me.