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emmanuel_car ,

After telling his wife, she asks “the whole finger?”
“No, the one next to it”

Num10ck ,

damn, tipping is out of control.

ReeferPirate ,

Henrik Sedin did the same thing back in the day

celeste ,
@celeste@kbin.earth avatar

He urgently consulted a plastic surgeon who said that even with surgery to repair the finger - and the long recovery time - it may not regain full function.

Honestly, it seems like a pretty logical decision. Lots of people would opt for amputation in that situation, I think, even without factoring in giving up a lifelong dream.

DarkThoughts ,

I think I'd try to recover first. If it turns out it doesn't function anymore I can still decide to remove it.

celeste ,
@celeste@kbin.earth avatar

True! I think I'd go that direction, too. But I can imagine someone else being like "nerve pain sucks and it's just a finger" about it.

I just think the option was between two different surgeries, neither with an ideal outcome, not between just waiting for it to heal and amputation, so it's not as silly a decision as it first seems.

ambitious_bones ,

I wonder if the olympic comittee should ban him from playing in order to discourage this kind of thing in the future.

mecfs OP ,

Why? Personal choice. No one forced him.

ambitious_bones ,

Yes, no one person forced him. But career pressure and fomo did. And I don’t think that sets exactly a good precedent.

mecfs OP ,

I’d give my finger to be in the olympics. Already lost a finger in an accident and doesn’t change much 🤷

hsdkfr734r ,

The same applies for doping.

Professional sports aren’t healthy for the gladia… athletes, but maybe there are some lines which shouldn’t be crossed to prevent the worst?

tobogganablaze ,

Also someone should look into a the doctor that performed the surgery without any medical necessity.

KillerTofu ,

Matt Dawson badly broke a digit on his right hand during team training in Perth two weeks ago, and recovery from surgery to repair it would have taken months. So, the 30-year-old decided to have the finger removed from the knuckle up in order to take part in his third Games, shocking his team-mates and coach.

Kalkaline ,
@Kalkaline@leminal.space avatar

Honestly not a terrible decision. It sounds like even if he went ahead and did the surgery to try to salvage the finger it might not have given him full function of that digit. Why keep the finger if it’s not even going to be usable?

FuglyDuck ,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

Lacking full function doesn’t mean it’s not usable. Just not as usable.

Also, “might not”, so that prognosis was also “it might” (probably less than likely.)

Hugh_Jeggs ,

I’m a doctor and I can assure you that “from the knuckle up” means all that’s left of him is the tip of a finger, which will be shit at hockey

variants ,

I don’t know, he could ride the puck now

emmanuel_car ,

He could certainly ride my puck

iltoroargento ,
@iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

“If taking the top of my finger was the price I had to pay, that’s what I would do.”

That decision also depends on which knuckle it needed to be amputated past. This quote makes me think it’s just amputating from the top knuckle up, which is really just your fingernail. You still keep a lot of use out of the finger in that case.

Edit: Even if it’s the second knuckle and up, you’d still have a solid amount of grasping utility with that finger.

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