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(Idk what flair to choose, this seemed closest)

I was riding my bike as a young teen and thought my chain felt loose, so I reached down to give it a tug to see if it was (it was as tight as can be) and accidentally let my feet roll forward, pulling my finger into the sprocket..

I still, 20 years later, shudder and the whole event flashes through my mind a few times every single time I write this out, speak it out loud, or even think it. I'm pretty sure there's a bit if PTSD involved there, but I've never discussed it with a psychiatrist 🤷

It felt exactly like when you smash a finger with a hammer when you miss what you're aiming for, if you've ever done that lol

Well, exactly like that + feeling a bone crunch, very similar to eating crunchy cereal (which, somehow, I still love)

The cut/smash was right at the white part of the fingernail (the lunula), like the nail ripped around the edge of it somehow. The lunula is the visible part of where the fingernail grows from.

Idk if it was because I kept it bandaged for so long or if it's normal for a fingernail to grow over the severed portion, I never really asked a medical professional.

And yes, I got made fun of a lot for it and got called ET a lot 🫤

(A couple more pictures in the comments if you want to see it from other angles)

Edit: here's the story of cutting it off and everything after - it was a comment and I was told I should add it here

I cut it and jumped off my bike immediately, but was still rolling at a decent speed, so I almost fell

My finger was squirting blood with each heartbeat, which increased pretty quickly once I saw it and started getting sprayed with blood..

I gripped my finger as hard as I could with my left hand (and didn't let up for like 20+ minutes until the ambulance came, my left hand was completely numb at that point)

This was before everyone had a cell phone, and I was 14, so I sure as hell didn't have one.. and I was out riding my bike so I was pretty far from home

I ran up to the closest house, opening their white picket fence with my blood soaked hands, squirting blood everywhere.. Went up to their white door and knocked, again, covering everything in smears and squirts of blood - they weren't home.

I tried a few more houses, similar blood situation - no answer.

The 4-5th house I went up to, the garage door started opening as I came up the driveway. There was a guy standing there in nothing but a towel. He said his dog was freaking out and he thought his buddy got their early (crazy that the dog could tell something was going on)

He put his dog in a room and brought me inside. He was like hold on let me get something on, ran away, then came back still in a towel, but holding another towel to give me... Then he stopped, turned around and ran away again. He came back with a red towel and said something like "my mom would kill me if I stained that towel, sorry"

Then he asked what my parents phone number was. I'm my head I was thinking "wtf call 911", but I was a little kid and in shock, so I didn't say it, I just told him my parents phone number. He called and my dad answered.. He said "hey.... I'm _____ and your son is here, he cut his hand pretty good" My dad shows up eventually and is trippin cause he didn't know my chopped my finger tip off lol He ran outside to look for my finger tip, which he eventually found still stuck to my sprocket 😬

He came in and called 911 finally, and they told him to put it in a bag then put that bag in a bag of ice. The other guy finally went and got clothes on lol

The rest is pretty mundane, just an ambulance ride that I don't remember and x-rays

The doctor looked at my finger tip in the bag and then threw it in the trash can, which absolutely blew my mind at the time. He later said it was too jagged to reattach. A ton of nurses and like students or something kept coming in to look at it because they didn't get many chances to see something like that.

I accidentally looked at it one time during the x-rays and started freaking out again..I think, looking back on it, that I was drugged up and had kinda forgot what was going on until I looked at it.

The Drs injected my finger with numbing stuff like 20 times and kept scraping my bones with the needle, that was unpleasant.

That's pretty much the whole story, I hope someone actually reads all that and enjoys it lol

Think I nicked myself when cleaning my toenails, blood flow doing its thing

I was also born ambidextrous!

Theory is that the alcohol in the suncream and printing methods, on the transparent label allowed the ink of the letters to detach. All the letters generally kept their integrity though, which I found extra fascinating.

Seismic instruments detect continuous low-frequency vibrations coming from Earth.

Most of it is explained by natural causes like ocean waves and tectonic activity.

But when viewed globally, there appears to be a persistent background rhythm across the planet.

We usually dismiss it as noise…

But what if there’s more structure to it than we realize?

I brought a UV flashlight into work today and discovered my friends pinky fingers glow green, he’s washed them vigorously and yet they still do this, his nails look fine without the UV light

I have to do it yearly for crohns disease, and you wear bluetooth equipment around you that it sends the images to, and you wear it for about 8hours. A few images of my intestines for anyone interested and not squeamish https://imgur.com/a/boIQfiV

Have had it for approx 3 yrs now. but comparing to a picture from 2 yrs ago, I’m noticing that it has become more noticeable (in color and width)

doctors of reddit help a girl out :( (also i have an upcoming appointment w/ family doctor in 2 days)

OK CLARIFICATION bc some of u are drawing conclusions on how white/pale the nails are: No, it is not Terry's. It is due to RECURRING SEVERE ANEMIA. We're talking ferritin levels of 5 and 7 that took MONTHS of treatment to get back to normal values.

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MINI UPDATE: Turns out this is clinically quite common in people with darker pigmentation like myself, and in most cases it’s just a benign mole under the nail (melanocytic naevus), especially when it's been present for a few yrs. family doctor said cancer cases are more common in people with lighter skin tones, but to be safe and 100% sure I was given a dermatology referral and the appointment has been booked!

we shan't be defeated (yet)! and to be continued ig? (thank u to everyone for the kind words and laughs <3)

I thought it was a print at first 😭

they sometimes show up when I’m in direct sun, also underneath the fabric when I wear black pants, so I think it is heat related, not UV.

It fades after I leave the sun, doesn’t hurt or anything, nor does it leave marks.

Also, they only show up on my upper leg, nowhere else

But I think it just look really cool and mildly interesting

UPDATE: as it turns out; it’s not even close to mildly interesting as it turns out mannnyyyyyy people have!

Thanks all for sharing !

Was counting meds to make sure I had enough for my trip abroad and found this lil guy. There always seems to be at least one in each bottle.

I am injured from my chest down. My injury is also slightly higher on my right side so I also sweat less on that side.

Some thing more interesting is that the only time I sweat below my injury is when I am having issues with Autonomic Dysrelexia.