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Hey Randy @rdf1967 ;
I’m having trouble responding to your post. I have a very vivid imagination and I have also been a carpenter all my life until my retirement. I am literally trying not to be sick to my stomach. This is highly upsetting. I’m so sorry you have had this terrible accident and are going to have to deal with the consequences.
Guitar is not the only thing this accident is going to impact. The first thing is to heal and accept whatever help is offered in the way of learning how to live with this situation. If ’67 is your birth year, you are still relatively young. There’s going to be trials ahead.
When you can come back to guitar, there are a number of solutions. If you continue to play right handed, you can use open chords and a slide and play pretty much anything. You can also play in standard tuning and learn to make partial shapes using your thumb over the fretboard to fret the 6th and even 5th string. Of course, that leaves your little finger and ring to fret the higher strings. This won’t be easy.
Then there is the suggestion that @GerryB56 made. You could play almost normal if you learned to play left handed. This won’t be easy and you’re not 15 or 25 anymore, so it may be too much. But you have options when it comes to guitar.
Please keep us informed so we can help as you move along this new and difficult phase of your life.
MG 😀