After many yrs around model engines I had become complacent and assumed my hands would automatically stay out of the way

I have a friend that's significantly cut his arm and the back of his hand in the last three years. He didn't get any tendons but still it was a trip to the emergency room

For me this last time I was at the hospital emergency room within 5 min but sat there for 4 hrs after they had my insurance information before anyone even looked at my fingers. By then the blood had clotted in strings hanging from my fingers

Now 6 mos latter arthritis has settled into those two fingers and I have to constantly work with them to keep them limbered up and the muscles strong but the strength in that had is gone for now compared with how it was before