Drilled

I was working on my Mark II Teslatronic Walking Cane and had a bit of an accident. In trying to drill a piece of copper pipe, the bit slipped off the rounded surface and into my thumbnail. There was a surprisingly large amount of blood for the fraction of a second it took me to drop the drill and attempt to staunch the flow with my other hand. The 7/64" drill bit cut through the thumbnail but didn't tear the chunk of nail off. I hope it survives.I suspect the bloody chunks I found on the floor afterward are actually just blood on debris that was already on the floor and not, in fact, chunks of flesh from under my thumb nail. I'm not going pry up the piece of nail to find out for sure.

My intention has always been to set up the room under my side porch as a workshop. Unfortunately, it's drafty, damp and infested with mold and spiders. It's become a storage space for things that really should just have been thrown away long ago. But that is being worked on. Too late for my thumb but perhaps by the end of this year I will have an actual workshop with a horizontal surface to work on and a place to mount a vice.

My thumb doesn't hurt so much as ache continuously.