WARNING, this is long but a chuckle NOW,,
Gotta add this adventure, a few years back I had bought a telemaster72, built and ready, I decided to go to the local hobby shop for fuel and other "extras". My wife was not totally impressed with the whole plane thing, the prop scared her! Anyhue, enroute to the hobby store a car crossed the center line, hit us head on, totaled the car we had only owned for a month, but we were pretty much "intact", after pulling my glasses from the defroster!
Well, finally the day of the solo arrived, as the engine ran up it was spitting and sputtering to beat all, as I reached,(from behind) to adjust it coughed and jumped a little, just enough to angle the prop at my wedding ring, which it hit, twisting my thumb into the path as well, thus severing my left thumb! Yes it did that much damage, enroute to the hosp. I lost so much blood I was nearly unconscious on arrival. Well believe it or not the plastic sergon who politly replaced my thumb after a few jokes and a couple hours of surgery offered to buy the plane! My wife did in fact sell it (she figured one car and one limb was enough!), and now I'm back at it again, lessons learned, and even own a pair of kevlar gloves that I was issued at work! But needless to say she's not impressed again!!