You think you have it rough? I once met an exterminator who was missing several fingers. He told us kids, “Never stick your hand down a rat hole.”
I once managed to cut myself on one of those plastic orange peeler things. The peeler slipped off the orange and dug into the webbing between my thumb and index finger instead. There was blood. Lots of blood. And it wasn’t a blood orange. So yeah, I’m an idiot too!
Hope you’re ok madmonk28, just remember you’re in good company here!
I had hand surgery two weeks ago today, and have been slowly getting used to accommodating the big wound on the palm of my (dominant) hand. Tonight I sliced the heck out of three fingers on my other hand with a ceramic knife… two of the cuts weren’t horrible, but one bled a LOT and for what seemed like forever.
My job involves a lot of typing… I think the people at work are going to start to seriously wonder about me. Best yet? I have a meeting with the VP tomorrow to discuss a promotion. ( facepalm )
Over the summer, while slicing celery, I managed to slice off the edge of my fingernail/finger. Lots of blood and lot of pain. (Ya’ know that pain when your nail breaks off down to the quick? Imagine it breaking about a quarter of the bed. Yeah, ouch.) I managed to drive myself to the ER where they put silver nitrate goop on it (covered the entire tip of my finger) and bandaged it up really nice. (There wasn’t really much to sew on–you can’t sew a nail back onto the nail bed.)
It took several months to fully heal (now it’s barely visable), but for weeks I had difficulty typing, especially when it was bandaged. (Oh, and I’m on the computer ALL DAY for work.) After a few days, I could remove the bandage and rely on a bandaid, but the silver nitrate goop they put on there remained for about two weeks. It was very awkward.
Yeah, not one of my better moments.
Someone I truly admire did almost the same about 3 weeks ago. I’m so very sorry. If I remember the drill, it goes like this:
Day 1,2,3- will hurt like a B-tch. Try to sleep w/o rolling on it. Pain relievers are meant for these days.
End of week 1, first bandage change: You’ll want to look. Don’t. Look away, focus on a spot on the wall & work through the pain till its done
Week 2; Somehow you’ll get the idea that banging it around helps. It doesn’t. Baby it still. No scratching.
Week3: At bandage change if you must look, look. But no itching, no scratching.
Week 4: There are 2 letters in ‘no’. There are 9 letters in ‘scratching’. Yes, you will be that bored. Use your hand, but don’t re-start the bleeding.
Weeks 5: keep that Dr appointment. He’ll probably say its OK to soak it in some extremely clean water or mixture. Do exactly like he says. PS- Scratching isn’t water.
When your hand is fully healed, you will be Extremely Pissed at me. You’ll scratch off dead skin like its been in a cast. You’ll probably never speak to me again.
With the 10 fingers that you can still type with.
Ooh the itching! I’d forgottent hat. When it happens, just press gently ont he itchy spot. It helps almost as much and doesn’t slow/reverse the healing process.
I fell las weekt and dislocated my elbow, tore all the tendons and broke all three arm bones. Surgery Tuesday to screw it all back together. Two questions: how to deal with itching down inside cast? and WHY ctrl alt delete together?With one hand, for me it’s impossible!!
It might be lupus.
Beauty is only skin deep, but stupid goes clear to the bone…
You mean like a stick blender?
Shit, you’re lucky to still have fingers at all!
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heh. amateur night.
us real geniuses do things like a girlfriend of mine who managed to pin her hand to the top of a tomato juice can with a paring knife.
yours truly opened up the palm of my right hand nearly to the bone while using a paring knife. i don’t cut things up in my hands any more.
Yup, and yup. The kitchen looked like a horror movie was filmed there. We’re still finding blood in the room in weird places.
It’s never lupus.
I hope you at least got the crap out of your food?