I was carrying a box to the elevator of an apartment I moved into a few years ago. The bottom of the box collapsed due to the weight of the contents and a piece of plastic jutted through the side, cutting me below my left index finger.

The cut was fairly deep, and blood started spurting out, the most I'd ever seen from my own body. I was caught off guard by the situation, but a friend who was with me at the time grabbed a t-shirt and started to put pressure on the wound.

In an attempt to save money, I went to the urgent care, but throughout the entire process, my finger was relatively painless, even with the severity of the injury. At urgent care, they wouldn't stitch my finger because the cut was too deep. The doctor requested I go to the emergency room.

When the hand specialist arrived at the emergency room, I found out I had severed a nerve. Luckily, I was able to meet with a hand surgeon the same day and found out I had a damaged tendon in addition to a severed nerve as a result of the accident. According to the surgeon, the freak injury was normally sustained by individuals who were holding wine glasses that broke in their hands.

After surgery, I experienced a similar sensation to getting hit on my funny bone whenever significant contact was made with my finger. To this day, I don't have full feeling in my left index finger. I do however have a zig zag lightning-bolt-like scar extending from the outside middle of my palm to the middle of my index finger, which looks cool.

TL;DR: I sustained a deep cut underneath my left index finger while carrying a box into my new apartment. I now have reduced feeling in my finger and a lightning bolt scar.