Glad you are ok, there always seem to be good and bad days, chin up it will be worth the blood sweat and tears in the end! Recently had my own set back fitting the indian boot hinges, dropped two of the nuts behind the rear bulkhead (now recovered them) they were imperial threads not metric being lazy to sort through a big container of rusty mixed nuts I have to find some but I decided to buy new ones it was late and instead of waiting I fitted the hinges with only six nuts, I then fitted the gas struts to make the boot rise, result - broken hinges and damage to the rear deck, more ordered from the same company but picture was different and they were cheaper, they came and were not as good quality and the wrong size, right ones now on order and rear deck repaired, delay caused and lesson learned.
