photo by Mike Carroll
Jake Owen suffered a gruesome hand injury in a 4th of July Weekend Go-Kart accident while racing some NASCAR drivers.
He was quoted by theboot.com as saying, “I shattered my fingers — the bones inside,” Owen said. “The doctor said it was like taking a cinderblock and dropping it on your hand. Like it spider webbed the bones inside my fingers. So he had to suture the bones back up to even make it a bone and then put a screw in there to keep it together.”
Over this past weekend, the finger started to bleed and doctors diagnosed that it was due to an infection. This led to them having to amputate part of the finger, hours before Owen played a huge free block party on Music Row in Nashville to a crowd of over 20,000 fans in celebration of his 4th straight #1 hit.
“They just went ahead and amputated the last half of it off,” Owen said before the show (quote via WWGP). “Kinda trying to pretend it doesn’t hurt right now, but it’s a little sensitive. Sensitive’s a good word.”
Sad news for one of the good guys in country music…we wish him a speedy recovery and an easy adjustment!