"I cut my finger cleaning an onion. What do I do?"

The BBQ Pit
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My wife just called.

“I was cleaning an onion, and punctured my finger with the knife. I can see a vein, and it’s nicked. What do I do?”

“Wrap it up in a rag, and go to the ER.”

“I thought if I put pressure on it, it would stop. It’s been 25 minutes, and it’s still bleeding. What do I do?”

“Wrap it up in a rag, and go to the ER.” More insistant.

“But the cut is small. I don’t think they can stitch it.”

“Before I married you, I cut my finger cleaning a fish, clear to the bone. They put 2 stitches in it. Wrap. it. up. in. a. rag., and. go. to. the. ER.”

“OK, I’ll put the dog away and go…”

:rolleyes: :smack: :rolleyes: :smack: :rolleyes: :smack:

You dumbass. If you cut yourself that bad and don’t want to get it treated, why did you even bother to call?

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You clean onions with a knife?

I’m with you here brother. Did she go?

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Maybe she wanted you to go with her, but she felt silly asking.

And don’t call her names. We’re not all good in a crisis.

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She’s on the way…

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I did the same thing about five weeks ago. I was cutting a large onion, when it slipped out of my hand, and the knife sliced into my finger. It did take a couple hours for it to stop bleeding, even with constant pressure. If I had health insurance, I probably would have gone to the hospital.

Even five weeks later, it still hurts sometimes. Hope your wife is ok.

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I can be a dumbass, too. I separated my shoulder in a martial arts class, but I went home to watch Lost before I went to the ER by myself to get it x-rayed and put in a sling for a couple weeks.

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Wow. Same exact thing happened to me. except during the 3 hours I was waiting in the ER, the bleeding stopped. And the doc opted not to put a stitch on it.

Except, of course, it was a winter squash.

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I never have a problem diagnosing another person’s need to see a doctor, but I always have a problem with my own injuries. “maybe I’ll feel better tomorrow” or “maybe it’ll stop bleeding” or “maybe I won’t be seeing double in a week”…

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Both of us have enough health problems that a trip to the ER is called for, even if they don’t stitch her up. She has blood clotting problems because of medications, FWIW.

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YEars ago when my son was 14 or so, he was at his dads alone for a few hours (while I was at work). Before his dad left, son asked “Dad, can I shoot my bow and arrow while you’re gone?” sure, said his dad. Did I mention he’s an “Ex” husband? this is reason # 123,124,763,384,989,192,952.

anyhow. Later, much later, son calls to find out when I’m coming to pick him up. Then mentions casually "Oh, by the way, I cut myself w/an arrow. but numbnuts (son used the guys name, I’m using his more technically accurate description) next door looked at it and said “you better keep an eye on that”.

I decided to pick him up then. NOw, this is several hours after his injury. I took one look at it, it was still bleeding, knew he needed stiches. There was a hunk of flesh the size of a quarter, missing from his leg. It wasn’t just a gash, it was a gouge.

Several stiches later (yes, it got infected of course), my son now has a manly looking scar on his leg from what we refer to as “The arrow incident”.

He had an excuse (he was a child, an adult had looked at it w/o saying ‘get thee to a doctor pronto’).

but yea, that would drive me up a tree, too. especially if she had health issues.

I’ve known women like that, who, for whatever reason, couldn’t manage to make the giant leap of “I need medical attention, perhaps I should go obtain some” w/o talking to the man in their life.

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Loss of blood & shock can cause confusion.

Be kind.

VunderBob–Call your wife. NOW! Be certain she went.

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She’s on the way home. No sutures, but they did cauterize the vein, update her tetanus, and give her a prescription for antibiotics for a week.

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Simupost. She’s on the way home, and I don’t think she lost that much blood. It was her finger, not her jugular…

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I’m glad she’s okay, but did she have to drive herself?
I sure wouldn’t want to encounter someone dizzy from blood loss (25 minutes! Sure it wasn’t her jugular but that’s a long time to bleed, right?) and only using one hand to drive while nervously checking out the bleeding finger on the other hand.

My reverse story:
When I was married I cut my thumb on a glass while washing dishes. It looked pretty bad so I called my husband at work to run me to the ER. (We only had the one car and I couldn’t go alone anyway with my toddler running around.)
“Oh I’m sure it’ll be fine; you know you tend to exaggerate things”. No, I’m terrified of hospitals and have a severe phobia related to needles. I don’t just go to the ER for a nick.
I ended up getting my grandmother to come across town to carry me in while my grandfather watched my toddler. Eight stitches later husband felt a bit sheepish and apologized, but damn, your wife calls while bleeding, don’t make light of it.
(for ex, not necessarily you)

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In this case, I work a half hour away from home, so if I did go to take her, it would have been a minimum 45 minutes before she was at the hospital, vs. 15 minutes if she went by herself.

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I hear ya.

Years ago, I was dinking off with my cousin and fell into the coffee table, hurting my arm really bad. I never told anyone. A couple of years after that, x-rays showed a healed broken bone that was never treated. Oops.

Last spring I cut myself while chopping up veggies. I could tell it was bad but I didn’t want to look at or (or deal with it for that matter) so I wrapped it up and tried to forget about it. A day later I thought that maybe I should have a doc look at it since I could tell it was gapped wide open under the wrap. Five stitches (and a scolding from the doc) later . . . .

Last summer I started experiencing double vision. Maybe it was my Lasix going bad. . . . maybe I was tired. . . . maybe I won’t be seeing double in a week. . . . Months later, it finally got bad enough that I went in for an eye exam. A diagnosis of a brain tumor and two surgeries later. . . .

. . . I still haven’t learned my lesson. :rolleyes:

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Glad to hear she’s ok!

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Wow, you are hardcore! I thought I was pretty dumb and tough for not going in for a sinus infection!

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Hardcore? Nah, more like really wimpy when it comes to going to the doctor.

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Doctor’s office? Hospital? Fuck that shit. There’s sick people in them places.

What? Sumbody hadda say it.