Any other climbers crush a finger tip?

Given how common finger crushes are in the medical arena, I figure some climber out there might have experienced this. Curious if anyone can share experience with recovery timeline and easing back into things. My right ring finger tip fell victim to rock fall, broke the tip of the bone off, displaced it slightly dorsally (toward the nail), and shattered it in 4 to 5 pieces. No tendon or nailbed injuries. The hand experts/med types all say it will go back to normal and I believe it, but I'm 7 weeks out and it still has that rubbery feel to it and a little wiggle. If you have any experience or pointers, please send. Thanks in advance and happy climbing. 

I did have a completely crushed fingertip but sorry it was a long time ago and I cannot remember anything about the recovery time. It functions completely normally now, just looks a bit different. Nail grew back smaller size and shape but functionally nothing is different. 

I crushed my left index fingertip at work last year. It took a painfully long time to heal/not hurt but It's basically back to normal now. I had to lay off climbing anything more than ~10+ for a while, and did contrast bath, self massage, and general movement "training" on it.

Shattered mine in a car door and was off climbing for a while. It’s fully back but a little crooked now. By wiggle don’t mean the bone pieces haven’t gotten back together? That’s alarming and shouldn’t be happening- see a doctor. 

Climbing Weasel wrote:

Shattered mine in a car door and was off climbing for a while. It’s fully back but a little crooked now. By wiggle don’t mean the bone pieces haven’t gotten back together? That’s alarming and shouldn’t be happening- see a doctor. 

The bone pieces are fused with scar tissue. Too many bits to do anything except wait for it to heal on it's own. I think the wiggle I see is from the swollen tissue. I've seen a hand doc. Appreciate all the responses. That much more confident about it. 

i actually had two experiences -

first was as a kid (maybe four or five).  my grandmother decided to close a car door while i had my hand on the frame side.  that resulted in a pulled nail and a fat nailbed with a fingertip that never quite looked like the others ever again.  i remember it hurting like hell, both the accident and the nail pulling.  no broken bones, no nerve damage.

second was a couple of years ago while hand drilling.  things just didn't line up quite right when i wailed on a fingertip.  no broken bones, but definitely nerve damage.  quite painful initially, then sensitive for a while (months), then numb/little sensation (more months), and now pretty much back to normal (ie i'm having a hard time remembering which one it was, but that's another story ;-)

anyway, the second time around inspired Smashfinger's Big day Out - a route i initially put up on gear while still in the quite painful stage...

I crushed my index finger about 2 months ago. It had 7 stitches holding the pad together but no bone damage. The first month really sucked, but I was able to start climbing with it taped in about 5 weeks.

It was extra sensitive at first and I worried about the scar tissue. Now I don’t notice it as much. I have been using one of those Rhino finger message rings. It was really uncomfortable at first but has seemed to help de-sensitizing it.

Best of luck in your recovery!  

I crushed my little finger moving a big rock at Rumney. I was working in a constricted boulder cave so so didn't have any room to use my bar and had to straddle it, pick it up and shift it an inch at a time by hand. Unfortunately I didn't notice a bump on the rock below, so when my finger got squeezed between it and the block it split down the whole length and squeezed out like hamburger. When I got to the car I happened to have an unopened bottle of distilled water so washed it all out as well as I could and somebody had some antiseptic cream. I then used a folded up paper towel from an unopened roll to wrap it in lieu of stiches, carefully repacked my finger, got the skin aligned and taped it up. 

Luckily the bones seemed all intact and the nerves were ok, so I didn't bother going to a doctor. When I got home I took it all apart and vigorously cleaned it all out again. (great fun. infection was my biggest worry) It healed up fine with only a small hairline scar at the knuckle where I didn't get  the skin perfectly matched. There was some numbness, mostly at the tip maybe for about a month or so, but it healed great. Just being a flesh wound and no broken bones I am sure allowed it to heal  more easily.. I think it was only a couple weeks before I could start to gently use it., which was a relief  after first seeing it.