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You dun goofed! You're gonna be backtraced and reported to the cyberpolice now.

Depression and suffering isn't a competition. That Boomer 'starving kids in china' mentality is destructive and needs to go away. It's like the pain scale - everyone feels it differently. Your 10 might be my 2 when it comes to one type of pain, but they could easily be reversed for a different type. We're all different. We all process things differently. Don't feel bad for feeling bad.

Is there any chance of reconstructive surgery to make your hand more functional? If so, would you consider it, or do the risks outweigh the benefits?

One thing I learned from a chiropractor that has stuck with me for years: guys should carry their wallet in their front pocket. I had been rearended at a red light one evening about 12 years ago and developed some moderate back pain from it. I got a call from some ambulance chasing chiropractor the next morning asking if I needed help and that the other party's insurance company would cover any charges. I figured I'd do it since it was free. They took some preliminary x-rays and discovered that one vertebra in my lower back was tilted sideways at about a 30 degree angle. (It was definitely a real x-ray - I could see my piercings in it, as well as the cross necklace I was wearing) The first thing the doc said is that the accident didn't cause that, my wallet did, and refused to treat me unless I promised to carry it in my front pocket for the duration of the treatments. The back pain from the accident was muscular, and he used a TENS unit to help with that. He went ahead and billed the insurance for the vertebra as well, saying that it could have been worsened by the accident and treated that with some little spring-loaded device over the course of several visits.

tl;dr: Don't carry your wallet in your back pocket... it'll screw up your back.

Do you feel ashamed of yourself for the horrors that have been wrought using your invention? I mean, I'm sure it SEEMED like a great idea at the time... Saving settings on someone's local PC, then retrieving them later, obviating the need for user accounts for basic settings. But then someone figured out they could feed a browser a cookie on one site, then through little widgets slathered across the internet by paying site owners to host them, they could track ALLLL your browsing habits and throw the weird porn you're into onto your facebook page while you're showing someone a funny dog meme. Seriously, man. My mom will never look at me the same way again.