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Hot gravel? Hot gravel? When I was a lad........
Yeah, I was slicing shallots three weeks back with my new ceramic knife and got caught by a ninja sneeze. I pondered a trip to hospital but stopped the bleeding in the end and wrapped a few plasters around it. Opened it up and cleaned it the day after (stung like a bugger as well), then closed it up with some skin closures and covered with a finger bandage. Took that off after 2 days and have just left it to heal.
I now have a numb patch down one side of my finger and a patch with no fingerprint as yet but it's all pretty much ok.
Did this slicing courgettes the very first time I cooked for the future Mrs Scary. Seriously thought I was going to have to drag her down to A&E on Valentine's day! The finger's still a bit flat on one side from that one...Originally Posted by Splash
We haven't heard from him today....
It says "resolved".
Though there is more than one way to resolve a problem
The number of times I've stabbed, sliced, gouged and otherwise cut my fingertips thanks to my cursed obsession with GW's fine range of plastic crack, I'd have probably lost my fingers if I'd tried to do anything other than whack a plaster over the worst of them.
Admitedly there has been one or two times I have gone "hmmm, I don't have plasters, superglue was originally a wound sealant right?"
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Superglue was developed to bond the edges of a wound together, I think for use as a field dressing as an alternative to stitches.
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Lucio (16-12-2015)
Well next time I enevitiablly stab myself, I'll try it, if you can hear the scream, you'll know it wasn't a bright idea!
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GoNz0 (16-12-2015)
Stop watching Macgyver re-runs chaps !
my sister cut the end of my middle finger off using a door. I fell over a bit, put my hand against door frame to steady myself and she closed the door.
then with that bandaged up I was running around in the back garden, fell over a bit again, put my hand straight onto a milk bottle which smashed and jammed straight into my other hand.
then with both hands bandaged up I was standing on the sofa. fell over a bit and didn't have any hands to stick out and protect the fall, so attempted to do a cool roll/flip in the air, ended up smashing and breaking my collar bone.
all that was within a month of moving into this house. 32 years later (I was 2 at the time) I still have no 'end off finger', collarbone and shoulder are weird lookin', and I have quite obvious scars on my hand, plus a few more through various knife stabbings and drilling into my thumb with a hole cutter on a drill stand. (blood is still on the ceiling of my shed)
and to top it off, and to make this relevant to this thread:
when I was 15, I got a tiny metal shaving off a screwdriver stuck into the end of my chopped off finger. only noticed 3 days later when I woke up an it was purple and oozing green stuff. took 2 different strong antibiotics to shift it over the course of 8 weeks.
I now dig out any splinters and things with a small pen knife and tweezers. even poke about a bit just to make sure theres nothing in there, if I'm not too sure.
a couple were probably just blood blisters, I just cant help the poking sometimes.
but that's just me..
don't follow my advice kids
sammyc (16-12-2015)
Did something similar & took a slice off my left index, by leaving my finger too far over the edge of the metal rule I was knifing against, like you do if you're stupid. I didn't employ any inventive healing methods but I did find out that I pass out when holding minor injuries under the tap, which has been useful knowledge since.
Aliorum vitia turbaverunt me
You guys sound lucky to be alive, crazy people.
Urban myth, I'm afraid (I thought this until I sliced my finger as described above) - it was just a happy coincidence. It was actually developed to create clear plastic sights on guns in WW2 (1942), and found not to be a good fit. It wasn't til the 70s that the skin closure use case was discovered.
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