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Originally Posted by Longboarder
My X5 has the auto-close function which is kinda cool until you get one of your fingers in there.
I was outside the car and my 4-year old jumped in the driver's seat and then pulled the door semi-closed on my thumb. Not a big deal until auto-close engaged and crushed my thumb. Blood spurted out between the nail and made a nice crack sound like it broke a ligament/tendens. WTF I thought it wasn't supposed to close if there is resistance.
Can't move my thumb (happened a day ago). Just taped it up but may have to visit the doc.
So just be careful if you have the auto-close function on your BMW.
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That's just plain nasty.
I do feel your pain though, literally. I did the same a couple of weeks ago by slamming a rental car door on my thumb. It looked just like yours except the blood was trapped and couldnt get out (which is a bad thing).
The next day my thumb started to swell up and was throbbing (barely able to move it) and I went to the Urgent Care where they put a small hole in my nail to let the blood drain out. Oh, in the process I also fractured the tip of my thumb too but that has to heal on its own.
2 weeks later and the hole is now closed up and I am playing the waiting game for the nail to grow and push out the nastiness beneath it, which it has slowly started to do. The fracture is still a little painful but nothing intolerable.
Hopefully you didn't damage it to where the nail has to fall off to regrow. I guess that's the silver lining for me that I escaped that part.
If it is any consolation, I will be counting the days, weeks and months until I have a normal looking finger again as I am sure you will too.
I feel your pain, unfortunately!
I was going to upload an equally painful photo but figured one was enough. The fun diagnoses:
