Lol I bought a bunch of fingertip ones expecting to need to wear them for like two months while my fingernail grew back. Instead the skin under it healed to the point where running water on it felt normal instead of like someone stuck a blowtorch on it and I’ve only got a slight indent left after only 3 weeks.
So I’m well stocked on finger bandaids for the next blood sacrifice (which of course I could only find in packages that had the knuckle type as well, so I have even more of those lol).
Also it would be cool to have a misaligned fingerprint. If you do crime, they might end up spending extra time figuring out if someone is trying to leave fake prints behind but isn’t good at it.
One part I’m still not very clear on is if the nail bed refers to the entire area under the nails or just the part at the base of the nail, where it grows from.
My incident didn’t touch that base but absolutely exposed some of that skin underneath. The regrown nail seems to be adhering well to that skin, too (that was my biggest worry, that I’d be left with a “bubble” of nail seperate from the skin underneath).
The nail bed is the part under the nail. The germinal matrix is the part that grows the nail and has the stem cells, iirc. It’s under and behind the cuticle.
It’s pretty hard to get the nail to not stick to the nail bed. I had both big toenails permanently removed, but eventually a very thin layer of nail came back a year or two later, and it’s as affixed as strongly as the old nail was.
Well, actually stronger because I used to remove the nails myself to avoid the surgery to fix ingrown nails, and eventually they just kinda popped off without issue.
Get some steri-strips/butterfly bandages. That’s how I reattached the tip of my thumb when I cut it almost completely off with a mandolin.
Lol I bought a bunch of fingertip ones expecting to need to wear them for like two months while my fingernail grew back. Instead the skin under it healed to the point where running water on it felt normal instead of like someone stuck a blowtorch on it and I’ve only got a slight indent left after only 3 weeks.
So I’m well stocked on finger bandaids for the next blood sacrifice (which of course I could only find in packages that had the knuckle type as well, so I have even more of those lol).
Yeah, the nail bed can be pretty wild. It contains stem cells that can actually regrow part of your finger if it doesn’t also get cut off.
What’s fun is that the piece I reattached wasn’t lined up perfectly, so now a portion of my fingerprint is wonky like 10 years later.
Also it would be cool to have a misaligned fingerprint. If you do crime, they might end up spending extra time figuring out if someone is trying to leave fake prints behind but isn’t good at it.
One part I’m still not very clear on is if the nail bed refers to the entire area under the nails or just the part at the base of the nail, where it grows from.
My incident didn’t touch that base but absolutely exposed some of that skin underneath. The regrown nail seems to be adhering well to that skin, too (that was my biggest worry, that I’d be left with a “bubble” of nail seperate from the skin underneath).
The nail bed is the part under the nail. The germinal matrix is the part that grows the nail and has the stem cells, iirc. It’s under and behind the cuticle.
It’s pretty hard to get the nail to not stick to the nail bed. I had both big toenails permanently removed, but eventually a very thin layer of nail came back a year or two later, and it’s as affixed as strongly as the old nail was.
Well, actually stronger because I used to remove the nails myself to avoid the surgery to fix ingrown nails, and eventually they just kinda popped off without issue.
Well that got a shudder out of me. Hope it isn’t as unpleasant as it sounds for you these days.