Jose Canseco tweets photo after gun accident: 'Hope I can keep my finger'

October 29, 2014 at 4:56 p.m.

After accidentally shooting off his own finger Tuesday while cleaning his gun, Jose Canseco was well enough Wednesday to return to Twitter. Canseco, the former MLB slugger whose post-baseball life has been something of a sideshow, tweeted a photo of himself, his huge cast and his fiancée, Leila Knight.

Canseco, 50, reiterated what TMZ Sports reported after the shooting — he's hoping to keep his middle finger after surgeons in Las Vegas worked to reattach it Tuesday night.

Got no sleep. Hope I can keep my finger but grateful it wasn't something worse @ModelLeila my nurse taking good care pic.twitter.com/TR78fmru8d
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) October 29, 2014

While Canseco hasn't played in MLB since 2011, he's still made use of his hands on a baseball field in recent years. He went on a summer tour a couple months back, trying to break the record for the longest baseball and softball home runs. Last year, he spent a week as a player/coach for the United Baseball League team in Fort Worth.

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