Things not to do if you have Parkinson's

Sucks to be me... Again!

Smashed my right index finger between the brake drum and the rim of the backing plate on my truck!

After about 4 hours of significantly increasing throbbing, I decided it was time to do the nasty deed of heating up the old paper clip trick.
Where is a good IDC when I decide to invoke something I used to do on a daily basis?

After I botched the attempt twice with a freakin smaller than called for paper clip, I progressed to a 1/8 in titanium drill bit.

Well to make this self inflicted ordeal as brief as possible, I finally got to the nail bed for the third time, and decided to suck the blood out. Not much there.

Think I smashed the itty bitty bone at the tip of my finger (tuft fracture) and now it's open with my spit in it.

 What did I learn?
1. Get someone else to do the popping, preferably an IDC.
2. Use a bigger paper clip the first time.
3. If the subungal hematoma doesn't look full of blood, it isn't,  so don't pop it to begin with.
4. Drilling holes in burned holes sucks!
5. Scotch works...
6. Oh... The most important one... don't try this if you have Parkinson's Disease.

Tomorrow will be a better day!

Campy out!