Mel, you certainly are not alone in the self surgery department. YGW, those power nailers are scary. I never nailed myself but have had a couple punctures from the wires from coil nails.
Never cut myself with an x-acto blade but have stitches in my thigh from a utility blade cut and sutures in left index finge frame a razor blade while trying to open an epoxy mix tube set. Both cuts were careless uses of a sharp blade. It sure happens fast and makes you feel really dumb after the fact.
I will admit that I have cut every finger on my left hand at least once with a hobby knife. Usually that happens when it slips. I even have a good size scar on my left index finger from when I was kitbashing a building when the knife slipped. I still have that building to this day. It is one of the bigger buildings on my layout. (Three kitbashed DPM Laube Linen Mills.)
I yelled at myself the other day about being 53 yrs old and still not learning that Xacto’s are sharp.
I was wiring my module and I am usually very careful, but somehow holding the iron in the right hand I grabbed the hot base with my left middle finger…WOOPSOUCH… but my skin on my finger is thick…left a minor burn, that was it. But last nite working on my modules pulling one out I left a connection on underneath and yanked it out. GRRR… its making me change how I do undermodule connections…I won’t have any anymore. Edge Panel hookups that can take a beating.
I too am a member of the Dummy Club. Fingers cut, wrong end of soldering iron, pull a wire, fingers slip until the bend at the end catches your finger like a fish hook, finding out that that was a 110 volt circuit, not 12 volt and numerous other ways to injure yourself. Of course there’s always CA gluing your fingers to the latest project, tool other fingers or a tabletop. This is fun isn’t it? Isn’t it?