I removed the finger tips from my right hand with an electric planer! - missed the little finger though, but the thumb got it as well. They grew back far better than I ever thought, but I only have limited feeling in them now.
Got to the hospital, with a towel (now bright red) wrapped tightly round by hand - got seen quite quickly, it was a quiet Sunday afternoon. The nurse carefully peeled the towel off, and it had stopped bleeding, so she didn't even clean them - just put antiseptic cream on and tubular bandages, like a handfull of bananas
Then read my records, she says "you've not had a tetanus jab recently", so drop your trousers!. So I'm stood there, trousers round my ankles, right hand held up like a bunch of bananas - and she rams this needle in to my right thigh - if I'd got any spare limbs available I'd have probably given her a good slapping?. When she pulls the needle out a little fountain of blood spurts from my thigh, like a mini Niagra! - she says 'Ohh', presses a piece of cotton wool over the wound and says "hold that". So I'm now stood there with trousers round my ankles, handfull of bananas in the air, and my left hand holding a piece of cotton wool on my right thigh! - eventually she came back with a plaster for my leg!. My thigh came up in a huge bruise, and I was limping for about ten days! - the fingers took about 5 weeks to grow back!.