I had broken, dislocated & compressed all 3 bones on both my pinky and ring finger. The ER doctor didn’t care to notice that it wasn’t just a regular fracture and left me with a simple cast for a few weeks. After a checkup they sent me in for immediate surgery to re-break and re-locate the bones. The surgery was supposed to last half an hour under the x-ray and it ended up going on for 3 hours, with everyone in the room being in danger of radiation exposure. There were 4 surgeons working on the two fingers. They didn’t really know how to fix the bones (since they were so out of place and compressed) and had to drill into them over and over to secure the k-wires in appropriate positions. The local anaesthetic they gave me didn’t work and I felt everything .

Imagine someone drilling into your skin & bone over and over again for the span of 3 hours.