Would that be an injury from knitting the brim of the bucket hat? 'Cause my bucket hat injured me, too, and almost ended with a broken bamboo needle. Hmmm.

Ouch! I'm beginning to get the hole on the pointer finger of my right hand from pointy denise needles...

I've poked an actual hole in the tip of my left index finger while using small needles. It hurt like crazy and I couldn't knit until it healed up - an absolute bummer..

If it helps I have some SpongeBob band-aids you can use...

That has happened to me a lot in the past and part of it is because you have been doing hats and that means lots of use of the same needles-i try to have projects on different size needles going all the time so that i can switch up

I thought I showed plenty of sympathy for your injuries at lunch yesterday. :) You could get one of those leather finger protectors that quilters and embroiderers (sp?) use.