/ck/ - Food & Cooking

got my thumb absolutely fucked up a couple years ago
>2 person kitchen
>getting a new dishpit installed
>means we dont have a proper mounted can opener for a couple days, have to use a shitty little hand crank one
>opening a large can of coconut milk which was a bit dented along the side and rims
>cut through the dent, can lid pops up and slices into my hand
>thought it wasnt going to be anything serious, didnt feel that bad
>wipe up the blood, see several kinds of white and a gaping gash in the base of my thumb, which immediately starts gushing again
>snap into ice cold reaction mode, no hysterics
>grab a couple rags, tell my line cook to call an ambulance, tell the server to do damage control with all the tables who werent getting their orders anytime soon
>EMTs show up, takes two rolls of gauze to get things stoppered up
>emergency room does the usual panel of tests, managed to sever my flexor tendon, nerves, and both arteries, and the can lid left a 2mm deep nick in the bone
as of now, its pretty much recovered, permanent nerve damage and a huge chunk of scar tissue at the cut site, mobility is good, but a shitty time all around