Thanks painretreat! Good advice all around.
My FINGER is better and I just sliced the everlovin SHIT out of the base of my thumb on the cooling fins on the back of a centrifuge- like radiator fins but smaller and razor-sharp. So now I have two deep gashes that are, of course, duct taped together. HElls yeah, it's like the Force- has a dark side, and a light side, and holds the universe together.