all i got for ya are prayers...but they are yours!

can you just subastitute plasma from fat people? if so I am sure many of us will be glad to donate.

^that would help me, actually...if i give 15 kilos of fat, then that counts as 5 months for my diet!

is 15 kilos of fat overkill for a finger tip?

maybe jreds insurance will pay for our liposuction if we donate the fat to jred? sort of like the donee's insurance paying for the donors organ removal??

Ironically, I joked with the Dr about a fat transplant from my ass and he became serious about it being possible to do something along that line.

he could store my extra fat in a garage freezer...you know, for the next time he misuses the chipper. no need to fear, still has 10kg of grade AA Burgess lard in the deep freeze!

with enough to fry a turkey every year!

well, if your doctor is serious, i will say, i am blood type O...the universal donor. just the kind of selfless human i am...down to my core, my DNA. i am a giver!

What a selfless human being!!!

But wouldn't the fat be absorbed? And if not, wouldn't you get that underarm hang look on your finger as you get older?

Might impede your keyboard skills too.

on the upside they could probably mold it into the shape of a mushroom or fireman's hat (I never could spell helmut)

Tony Iommi had the tips of his fingers removed via a sheet metal factory incident.

They were on his "fretting" hand.

He melted plastic soap bottles and molded the softened plastic into little custom fitted thimbles; which he covered in leather.

He then went on to become the father of the heavy metal riff.

I get a lot of enjoyment from playing guitar......so this story was inspiring to me since I will probably definitely get one or more of my fingers wrecked some day.

it would definitely be bulbous, but if you trained and ate right, it could be strong and relatively lean. most won't notice...

...until you are a grandfather, and you can show the weird finger to the grandkids. you just can't buy memories like that!

Ahhhh, an ET **** helmet finger. Brilliant.

The fat would be absorbed, but it does leave behind a little residue which would provide a little more padding for the tip.

And Brian, thanks brother, but I've got a good supply of vitamin F myself.

Andy, play a Buckethead song for us.

John--this brings back memories of when my dad caught his thumb in a log splitter. He was letting his now wife push the plunger while he placed the logs. Well she pushed and he hadn't pulled his hand away. His thumb literaly exploded. They were able to do a graph from his leg to fix it. He still has scars but he has full use.

Of course he does have a big gash in his leg from a chainsaw that slipped and caught his leg.

Good luck. I hope you can find a way to fix it.

I had some of this around the house, but I can't put my finger on it right now.

JK...Sorry to hear of your accident.

DD©

chainsaws are bad.

LOL @ DD.

I've already used that one...as a matter of fact, it was at the ER while the surgeon was working on the finger.

This thread is useless without video.