My wife was talking to my Mom today and Mom was telling her about her fingers locking up .... well ... I showed Vickii the ring finger of my right hand which always did lock up ... looked weird ... unnatural. Well, I always just put a little more pressure on it and it would go back to normal. Well .... I put the same kind of load on it that I always have today when I was demonstrating ... but this time the tendon snapped, The end of that finger won't go back straight now at all.
I went to the emergency room and had it x-rayed, and tomorrow I have to call an orthopedic (I think) doctor. They gave me the name and number.
I came back from the emergency room with a big blue plastic splint on it ... and went back to work. If it costs too much to reattach it ... I'm not going to worry about it. That finger's pretty much a "freeloader" anyway. It could never even do a simple job like ... stay put on the banjo head. It always tags along with my middle finger and leaves the pinky with the anchoring duties.
Wyatt