Oof. My late father had accidentally smashed the hell out of his thumb at work so bad that he had to drill a hole in the middle of the nail to relieve the blood pressure. And yes, it took like 6 months to mostly grow out, and another few years before it grew back enough you couldn’t really see it ever happened. Big ouchie there!

Thankfully my incident only seems mildly bruised, and the pain has already mostly subsided.