Oh, that sucks. Stringer swarf is the worst. I can't believe the ER was going to send you away without stitching you up.
Yeah, it was bad, but it looks like you got it worse. That ring finger looks like it is in some serious pain!
As for the extra professional ER, In hindsight it's a funny story...The doctor in the first ER looked at my fingers, said stitches would be all I needed. My dad kept on mentioning nerves and what If they had been cut. The doctor was being really...i'll choose the word "rude", the entire time. He finally agrees to stitch up my pinky only and then look at the index finger more afterwords. Well he starts stitching away and finishes up, then he goes to look at the x-rays that were taken when I first arrived.
I lift the cover from my hand and notice that he stitched up my index finger...and not my pinky. Ooops! So when the doctor comes back we let him know of his mistake, he doesn't say much and quickly leaves. While he is gone my dad is loudly explaining how the doctor messed up and keeps loudly mentioning that we should have gone elsewhere.
Well the doctor returns and explains how he "decided that it would be best to call around" and see if a more fit doctor was capable of handling my injury. He says that he heard my dad "mention" another hospital and called there for us.
The doctor also explains that the stitches need to come out, and then proceeds to very roughly rip then out...keep in mind this is well after the lidocaine had worn off.
Then he scurries off to never be seen again and a nurse comes to give us the details of our next destination. My dad explains that my fingers are hurting really bad and asks if I can get something for the car ride.
When the nurse leaves I say that my fingers don't hurt at all, he says "I know, but at the least, we are getting some good drugs out of this mess!"
Whatever they gave me was
strong because I was on cloud 9 the entire trip over to the next hospital. Once we got there were were met by an extremely nice hand-surgeon who explained that If I wouldn't have come then I would have never had feeling in my entire index finger or my pinky.
Anywho, he puts me under and I wake up 3 hours later with a big cast on my hand. And that's about that!
It's actually really interesting, because the SS stinger was so sharp, the cut ended up being super deep, but also very clean so I was lucky in a sense and my fingers never really hurt at all, except when Mr.Er decided to rip the stitches out.