I'll be doing well to be back at it by april, I think.
I took off a slice about the diameter of a dime. Managed not to involve the nail or bone, thank ghod, but the bone was a close call... didn't miss it by much. I'm going to have to wiat for it to heal up, then I'm going to have to work up the callous (main bending finger, gonna take a while) as well as have to learn how to play with a differently shaped finger.