Paul reading your story caused me to unconsciously look at the top of my right hand where a curving scar is still quite visible. I acquired the scar courtesy of the nose baggage door of a Piper Seneca in 1991, plus or minus a year.
The cut was bleeding quite profusely so I rushed into our office to get some first aid. The good news is George (name changed to protect the guilty) rushed to help, the bad news was George was a mechanic and figured doctoring like fixing airplanes usually only required a rag and some speed tape. With a clean-ish rag wrapped around my hand and securely fastened with shiny silver speed tape I was good to go.
My passengers looked at me rather dubiously but their desire to get to their destination out weighed their trepidation. Things were not too bad until half way through the flight when the blood started oozing out of the edge of the rag. I used the oil rag from under the seat to keep things under control and got to my destination without embarrassing myself.
The passengers were happy to unload their own bags as they could see they were going to get bloody finger prints on them otherwise, and I set off for home base. By the time I got back the wound had pretty much clotted so it wasn’t too bad however the line crew were not impressed at cleaning all the bloody finger prints off the airplane.
Why didn’t you get it properly bandaged at ER one of them said. Because I would have missed 2 hours of Multi PIC, I replied. OH he said, good call !