Post #44797 by freddiefreelance on Sun, Jul 27, 2003 1:27 PM

I've had 1/2 a dozen friends do much the same (usually before I knew'em, so I'm not that much Bad JuJu). Most of'em the nail grew back, but one friend had to have a new nail grown from part of one of his toenails.

(Squeemish alert! Those with weak hearts &/or stomachs should probably stop here!) He was working with a punch press, it needed some kind of punchpress tune-up, but they waited 'til the end of the day to do it, it double-punched as he moved his work piece & took off his fingertip down to the knuckle. They rebuilt him a fingertip outta a piece of the palm of his hand, but he couldn't grow a new nail. They took part of the nail bed offa one toe & transplanted it into his finger and trained it to his fingertip using a metal splint & a short piece of pipe. Last I heard he was working on relearning the guitar, but the fingertip was still really sensitive.