Be glad you were around civilization and civilian medical personnel. Whilst on a field problem in Hoehnfels, I got my right middle finger crushed between a heavy duty (2 6ft sections of aluminum, 1/8th in thick) duty tow bar, and the side armor on a Bradley fighting vehicle, I got some gauze, an X-ray, some motrin, and was told "It's not broken, you just bruised the bone." It was swollen for the entire 2 week field problem, and I ended up draining it 2-3 times a day with a safety pin sterilized by a lighter. There's still a lump in that section of my finger.

Marc