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And the answer is…
Yes, my finger is broken. The softball shattered the bone in my fingertip; the technical name for it is a distal phalanx tuft fracture. You can see the main splinter and some pulverized bone in the x-ray.
The nail was not bent but completely split and is indeed responsible for all the blood.
I have a bandage the size of a sake cup on my finger. When that comes off, I have a splint to put on. (The splint won’t fit over the bandage.) I received a tetanus shot and I’m taking cephalexin to ward off other infections. I have Dilaudid for the pain, but it’s not working yet. It doesn’t work on my migraines either.
I must have jinxed myself, eh?
What’s that smoke-looking stuff coming off your finger in the x-ray? Wait a minute do you use that thing as a finger-gun too. POW!
It must be a concentration of or contamination in the gauze. You can see the shadows of the bandages that were loosely holding it on.