Two years ago we built an addition to our house, added 1100 square feet upstairs. During construction one of the carpenters lost his index finger to a table saw. ER doc told him they could reattach the finger, but it would require 6 mos of therapy barring any infection, and they stil couldn't guarantee that all the nerves would still function.

OR, they could sew up the stump and he'd be back at work in 6 weeks. He told them to sew up the stump. Lost his finger at 11:30, came back up to my house at 5:00 to get his standard shift pickup truck and drive it home. One tough hombre.