WARNING: Don't break your left pinkie!!!

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Five weeks ago I broke my pinkie playing football, Caught a 35-yard pass entirely on the tip of my pinkie, shattering the proximal phalange (bone closest to the hand).

Had the entire forearm in a cast with the pinkie taped to a metal bar for three weeks. Couldn't play guitar at all. Then, I got the cast off and had to tape the pinkie to the ring finger for a week. Could only play the most basic of chords.

Now, five weeks later, my pinkie is still stiff, extremely sore, and can only help out on electric, but hasn't the strength to do anything for me on my acoustic guitar, which makes blues progressions impossibly painful and buzzing off the frets like crazy.

And the pisser was that I had written a song the day it happened. The chord progression and the chorus were literally created in five minutes, and it seemed so right.

Then I broke my finger and was freaked out that I would forget my new song (which happens to me 90% of the time because I rarely record while I'm goofing around---stupid, stupid, stupid).

I ran the tune through my head for an entire month and, phew, it's still there.

The moral of the story?

DON'T BREAK ANY FINGERS IFYOU PLAY A STRINGED INSTRUMENT!!!

Now I actually get nervous when I see people throwing a football around.

What's funny is that I had intuition going into the game that I would get hurt, but I thought it would be from falling, getting tackled, etc., but it turned out to be a broken pinkie from a bad catch.

DOH!
 
Thanks man...that was inspiring.....

I would also like to take this moment to add some additional helpful advice:

Don't extinguish ciagrettes in your gas tank
Don't bathe with poisinous snakes
and
Don't pee on the electric fence















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Yeah, I broke my left pinkie playing football in middleschool. I was off instruments for about a month. Fortunately, 7 or 8 years later, I'm fully recovered.

I'm sure you'll be fine.
 
Similar incident happened to me!

Left pinky, same bone, still slightly bent but my playing hasn't suffered because of it, but I did give up football for that very reason! :)
 
I broke my wrists 3 weeks before a show, I had a cast on my left arm, they left the right.. I mean a guy can get lonely..

I had the cast taken off a couple days before the show, and it hurt like hell to play. It was a stupid move, but the doctor said it would be ok if I taped them up to restrict my movement.

it's been 2 months now, and they both still ache like crazy and my stamina is pretty weak.

I guess the only point of this is, unless someone is paying you big bucks to play, take it easy, heal properly, and minimize your chances of trouble in the future.

Oh, I might as well add, don't enter a moto-x race if you know you're gonna crash
 
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Five weeks ago I broke my pinkie playing football, Caught a 35-yard pass entirely on the tip of my pinkie, shattering the proximal phalange (bone closest to the hand).

Had the entire forearm in a cast with the pinkie taped to a metal bar for three weeks. Couldn't play guitar at all. Then, I got the cast off and had to tape the pinkie to the ring finger for a week. Could only play the most basic of chords.

Now, five weeks later, my pinkie is still stiff, extremely sore, and can only help out on electric, but hasn't the strength to do anything for me on my acoustic guitar, which makes blues progressions impossibly painful and buzzing off the frets like crazy.

And the pisser was that I had written a song the day it happened. The chord progression and the chorus were literally created in five minutes, and it seemed so right.

Then I broke my finger and was freaked out that I would forget my new song (which happens to me 90% of the time because I rarely record while I'm goofing around---stupid, stupid, stupid).

I ran the tune through my head for an entire month and, phew, it's still there.

The moral of the story?

DON'T BREAK ANY FINGERS IFYOU PLAY A STRINGED INSTRUMENT!!!

Now I actually get nervous when I see people throwing a football around.

What's funny is that I had intuition going into the game that I would get hurt, but I thought it would be from falling, getting tackled, etc., but it turned out to be a broken pinkie from a bad catch.

DOH!
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I played with a broken collar bone. That hurt alot. Ot was my right one so i couldn't play my acoustic because i couldnt' strum hard. I got alot better at soloing and finger picking then though :p
 
Not breaking fingers is why I stopped "hardcore" skateboarding 8-10 years ago. I was affraid of breaking my hands.

Guitar was more important than skating. I still skated a bit afterwards, but mainly just point A-B skating. Then I just started walking.
 
I think I broke my right wrist 6 months ago from punching my friend (he deserved it for being a moron ;) ). My fist connected at a weird angle, which twisted it. I never saw a doctor because I thought it was just a sprain. I still have pain strumming chords and playing piano, I don't think it will go away any time soon. Moral of the story: make sure your friends aren't idiots, which cause such incidents.
 
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