View Full Version : Cut my hand badly with a carving knife - what a muppet ! !
Mark Grant
27-09-2010, 21:33
You know how some days you wish you had stayed in bed...
I am keen of food and cooking.
On saturday afternoon I sharpened my kitchen knives while I was waiting for some bread to rise.
Lovely bread when it was ready :)
Sunday morning was a disater.....
While cutting some vegetables to make some fresh vegetable soup I had an accident with my razor sharp medium sized knife.
I had cut half way across the palm of my hand to a good depth,
right through the skin and light colured fatty stuff to the meaty stuff inside. :eek:
The cut was about 50 mm ( 2 inch) long and about 10 mm or so deep, maybe more, I did not measure it.
A bit shocked at this time..
All this and it was only 11:00 AM on Sunday morning.....
Wrapped it in a tea towel and off we went to hospital, slow traffic just when you are in a rush.....
Checked in at A&E reception at about 11:30 and took a seat, lots of people waiting.
Looking around not many people appeared to have much wrong with them really... I did notice people looking at my hand wrapped in a tea towel as it was turning a little bit red by now.
After about 15 minutes I was called in to see a nurse, she rinsed it out, had a good look and asked some questions, temporarily wrapped it up and sent me back to the waiting room. I thought Hmmmm, why not just stitch it up.:scratch:
Bleeding slightly again now, white dressing going red.
Sat there for about 45 minutes, not hurting much so no problem.
Called in to a different room to see a different nurse, another good look and questions and checks to see if my fingers where working OK ( checking for nerve and tenden damage as a deep cut)
The nurse/doctor said it could be super glued which was a relief as I dont like stitches.
I was expecting about 5 or 6 stitches.
Sent to a small waiting area near the treatment rooms.
While sat there waiting I decided it would be a good place to take a picture with my phone :eyebrows:
Not a very good picture as not much light and my hands where a bit shaky.
I wont embed the picture as might put someone off their food, but it is here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yo43yo/5029536098/
A bit nasty.
A different nurse cleaned it again, then held it together with steri strips. ( it was gaping open)
He said it would sting a little bit when he applied the glue...
It did STING :eek:
A little painful stringy bit of something was sticking out of it at one end so he snipped it off and bandaged it up.
Out of the hospital exactly 2 hours from arrival, so good service service from A&E, all pleasant and friendly staff. :)
Home about 2:15 PM, switched PC on and answered a few customer emails while Tracey finished making the soup for a late lunch.
Today has been a bit of a challenge to work, still working almost OK just a bit slow.
We where supposed to be going on holiday to Mallorca this saturday 2nd October, looks unlikely now though as I cant get this wet for a week or two and it is slightly sore.
I have now learnt never to use a knife with wet hands :eek: and pay total concentration when using a knife.:rolleyes:
Luckily this was not my best big knife...
Mark.
Spectral Morn
27-09-2010, 21:47
:eek:
Hope it heals soon Mark.
One wonders though whether or not you add blood to your cables...... is that what makes them so good. Did you get a little carried away or was it too big an order of cables ?
I once while cutting a Titanium sheet on a heavy duty bench press let the sheet slip. I didn't notice that the side of one of my fingers was hanging off until I both heard and then felt the blood dripping on the floor of the workshop.
That was back in 1990 while studying silver-smithing and Jewelry design at art college. I have a nice scar to prove it.
Regards D S D L
Hi Mark,
Wow - and this was when you were sober? :eyebrows:
Seriously though, mate, sorry to hear that.... Looks nasty. I hope it heals quickly so you guys can get away and have a well deserved break :)
It just shows, like you say, how you need to concentrate fully when handling very sharp knives!
Marco.
Techno Commander
27-09-2010, 22:30
Strange, I was just reading a post on another forum, where a chap accidently dropped a knife and stabbed himself just above the ankle. His missus is giving him grief for all the "claret" on the living room carpet. :)
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Rare Bird
27-09-2010, 22:37
Ah i know the feeling Mark. Last time we were on Holiday in Rhodes, we down for Brekfast, you had to cut the fresh loaf with a bread Knife yourself (No flashy slicing machines this time), anyway i kid you not the knife was like a chain saw! soi'm cutting the slices when the wife shouts over 'Don't forget the orange', guess what turned around & cut straight throught my thumb right down to the bone, man was this one pearler of a near amputation,me being me, i never went to the hospital which was insaine for such an injury, i just cleaned it & taped it up, spoiled my holiday thats for sure.
Lost the top of my left thumb to a sharp knife whilst preparing octopus, I hope you have a speedy recovery mate.
aquapiranha
27-09-2010, 22:50
Nasty! I hope it clears up ok. I once saw a bloke I worked with literally stab himself in the thigh with all his might, an accident of course he was trying to use the stanley knife to cut some very thick plastic at the time. Also, my girlfriends daughter recently chopped off the tops of two her fingers (she is six) in a metal door at her uncles farm. I have seen them after a week or so, not pretty but healing well after they stitched them back on!
The Grand Wazoo
27-09-2010, 22:57
I hope this heals OK for you Anthony.
Prompt action, pointing at the ceiling & plenty of pressure are the keys to nasty hand cuts. My wife literally sprayed the kitchen ceiling with blood a few months ago, after messing about with wet hands, a razor sharp knife and a cabbage. We acted fast & she healed up quickly without a scar.
Despite all this, a cut from a sharp knife is better than one from a blunt one.
I think you mean Mark, Chris?
I did a similar thing a few years ago with a multi-tool - I certainly felt a tool - not to mention the pain when they flushed it out, which was nothing compared to the stitches, which I had done (6, I think, so 12 holes, not including casting-off :lol:) without anaesthetic as I am a complete wuss with needles... My sympathy, I know how sore (and itchy) it is.
hope this heals OK for you Anthony.
Anthony? Try again, Chris! ;)
Marco.
Rare Bird
27-09-2010, 23:14
:lolsign:
The Grand Wazoo
27-09-2010, 23:15
It's been a long day - 400 miles driving in 5 hours 55 minutes!
Sorry Mark, Anthony. ................and you too Cleopatra.
Rare Bird
27-09-2010, 23:17
I feel a new line of interconnects in the pipeline The 'Rhesus' range :lolsign:
Aye, they'll be BLOODY good!
Marco.
I feel a new line of interconnects in the pipeline The 'Rhesus' range :lolsign:
soon to be followed by the Perspiration and Lacrimation...? :D
The Vinyl Adventure
28-09-2010, 09:19
Blimey ... Look on the bright side mate, that scars just increased your "life line" your prob gonna out live us all now ;)
Hope it heals soon buddy!
Have you lost any feeling in your fingers or anything?
I cut my thumb on the rim of a chipped glass doing the washing up a couple of years ago... Hannah (being a nurse type person) said I didn't need stitches or anything so I dint go to hospital. She bandaged it for me and I took her word for it... I have never been sure if she was right as the side of my thumb is still pretty numb 2 years on
Mark Grant
28-09-2010, 18:32
Have you lost any feeling in your fingers or anything?
Fingers still have feeling and they all work OK. :) I was a slightly worried about a slightly tingly feeeling in little finger yesterday but is more normal today.
Any deeper cut would have been a problem as very close to damaging stuff inside, that will be why two or three different people looked at it and tested my finger strength etc.
Makes me feel ill thinking about it and how bad it looked at the time.:eek:
The Vinyl Adventure
28-09-2010, 18:38
its pretty gross eh, hannah works in the hospital and has seen some really minging stuff... i just dont like it... i guess im just squeamish, but all that inside stuff justs needs to stay inside if you ask me...
compound fractures, when you see them on programmes like "bizarre er" just make me feel funny... i guess its just an empathy thing, you can almost imagine your self in the situation where you tibia is poking out the skin after falling off the roof of your house or something... nope, dont like it... i even specifically avoid dangerous activity that doesnt phase some people so as to not get my self in that sort of situation...
Beechwoods
28-09-2010, 18:49
Glad to hear that things are looking OK Mark. I assume that it was your 'other hand' that you injured, not your main one. How's it affecting your work? I have no injurious war stories of my own, though my (now) wife did break a toe some years ago when she did a victory dance the night I acquiesced to her persistent advances ;) :lol:
Reid Malenfant
28-09-2010, 18:50
Ouch :eek: Hope you soon heal fully Mark, you'll need to in your business ;)
That's the worst looking cut i think i have ever seen :doh:
At least you didn't have someone at the hospital deliberately cut your palm open like i did :eyebrows: "Are you sure you want me to do this" i was asked, to which i replied yes :mental:
I got lost on the way home from a friends house once, knew the way like the back of my hand but i was extremely drunk :rolleyes: I fell into one of the most nasty spiked bushes you could imagine & one of the thorns snapped off in my palm (not that i knew this at the time). The next day i could just see a small mark, but my hand hurt like hell trying to do any work. After going to the docs & hospital & a quick xray with nothing showing i was asked the above.
A 1" long thorn was extracted from my hand :eek:
Get well soon fella, i'll be pestering you for cables in about a month :lol:
2 hours you were lucky, our A&E is usually 4-6 hrs, i cut my finger open when i put my hand through a window at the age of 12 whilst cleaning them for mother, that took a 5 hour wait, blood all over the place and 5 stitches later i was out, still have a nice big scar, the last time i went to A&E i went at 5 oclock in the morning after a sleepless night to have a piece of metal removed from my eye :eek: (always wear safety specs when grinding metal), strange old experience having your head clamped and someone come at you with a very sharp needle and hooking the splinter out of your eyeball, i was still there for 3 hrs, also took the skin off the top of one of my fingers whilst sticking it down a broken salt glazed drain once, it gave me a flappy bit, i just did and Andre' and taped it up myself, it healed eventually, oh and then there was the time that i lowered a running chainsaw on my leg that was a close one i had the proper trousers on that time so no amputation happened , i could go on but you get the idea, i'm a bit accident prone at times
Best wishes Mark hope it heals soon
Is this going to turn into a "bet my cut is bigger than yours" type thread :lol:
The Vinyl Adventure
28-09-2010, 19:56
I'll just get my toe photo out if I need to
I'll just get my toe photo out if I need to
No no please don't i have just eaten :vomfest:
I wish you a speedy recovery Mark and hope it doesn't badly inconvenience your work.
Mark Grant
30-09-2010, 19:02
Thanks Dave, I am managing OK, slightly behind but not too bad, it's not pretty though :eek: ( another picture later)
Mark.
Mark Grant
30-09-2010, 20:50
My hand is not looking too good today, hand was a bit smelly, sore and swollen this morning so took the bandage off to have a look. :steam:
Decided to take a few photos then Tracey bandaged it up and then I went to our local hospitial to get it checked out.
(they where not open at the weekend so I went to the nearest 24 hour city hospital - local one is much better but cost cutting took place some time ago)
There is a high quality picture on flickr now that was taken today, DO NOT look if you are squeamish !!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yo43yo/5038747585/
I wish the person that treated me the first time had stitched it and done a proper job as it is a bit wide and messy now and cant be stitched as too much time since the cut.
Steri strips where removed by the nurse today, it held together OK deep down and was cleaned again :eek: then a moist gauze put over the gap and bandaged with a big bandage to keep it all clean.
It will have to heal from the bottom of the cut up now as the skin has not closed across the top. Will be a wide scar I think.
There is nasty little sore weepy hole at the bottom of the cut with some fatty stuff and a stringy bit (nerve maybe) visible on close examination of the photo, hopefully that will go soon as it stings there.
full size picture: look for the little black weepy hole, fatty flap bit beside the hole and stringy bit. :) ( not for the squeamish)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yo43yo/5038747585/sizes/o/in/photostream/
If there is a doctor in the house, is that looking OK ?
A little bit angry today really as the two nurses that I saw today where obviously suprised at steri strips on such a wide and deep cut, they did not say too much to drop anyone in it, but I could tell that it should have been done better in the first place.
Mark.
God...I really am, so, sorry Mark...but I am getting more squeamish as the years role by.
Can't even think about looking at pics.... however hope it heals up really quickly.
Spectral Morn
30-09-2010, 21:05
I am afraid that Hamish's mutant claw toe is now demoted to number two position as most disgusting ;) image on AOS
Well done Mark your number ONE now. http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:BuY3PRawhLii0M:b
Regards D S D L
Nah! - Hamish's toe is still at no.1
In no way wishing to downplay your discomfort and concern Mark, that cut will heal, though it should have been stitched and you will, I'm afraid, be left with a wide scar. As long as no nerves were severed or damaged, you should recover full flexibility and mobility of your hand. (Nerves are very slow to grow).
Regards
Nah! - Hamish's toe is still at no.1
Sorry Mark, but agree with Barry, the Mutant Bozo ;) is still top of the chucks for me too...
I suspect you'll just be left with a white scar like I was, once all healed.
Pah, call yourself competitive?
I'm planning to lop my whole hand off with an axe later, to be No1, so look out for the photographs! :ner:
Marco.
Pah, call yourself competitive?
I'm planning to lop my whole hand off with an axe later, to be No1, so look out for the photographs! :ner:
Marco.
Let us know if you need a hand. :lol:
I might need a hand afterwards, as I'll be one down!
Anyway... I was gonna say if you'd 'see' my hand and raise me your head!! :lol:
Marco.
A friend at work's daughter is studying dentistry and I was amazed to hear that she has a real head to practice on! :eek: (Just a head, she's even given "him" a name!) She was going to take him out on Freshers week but he had no body to go with... (sorry! ;))
the old ones are the best :lolsign:
Covenant
01-10-2010, 09:41
A friend at work's daughter is studying dentistry and I was amazed to hear that she has a real head to practice on! :eek: (Just a head, she's even given "him" a name!) She was going to take him out on Freshers week but he had no body to go with... (sorry! ;))
Did she call him 'Ed?
:lol: - I can't remember now, but it wasn't funny - Raymond I think. Nothing funny about Raymond.
The Grand Wazoo
01-10-2010, 20:09
I've been watching this thread since Marco mentioned taking an axe to his hand & I've been waiting for the inevitable chopper jokes, but they've not appeared yet!
So I'm going to tell you a true story about a lumberjack and his chopper.
I used to sell trees to an old guy who became a good friend. He'd cut 'em down, convert them into logs & sell them to various timber merchants. Old Dave was one of the originals & was still working in the woods felling trees in his seventies, not because he needed the money, but because he loved the outdoor life & he loved to do a tough job and do it well.
One day I went to check on Dave's progress & we were sat together at his worksite sharing a cup of tea from his flask. He started fidgeting with his boots, pulling sawdust from the tops of them. Then he swore a bit & took a boot off, moaning that bloody sawdust gets everywhere in this job. He took his sock off to fish out a particularly elusive sliver of wood & I noticed a huge scar on his heel.
I asked him how he'd earned this particular battle trophy & he laughed and told me how in his young days before chainsaws when he used to fell trees with a crosscut saw and axe, he was stepping over a log and caught himself on the heel with the felling axe.
Later in hospital, a doctor was examining the wound and he asked how it had happened.
Dave, never a man of too many words simply replied that he'd had an accident while carrying an axe.
The doctor replied that he was surprised that an axe could do that with a simple slip and that it must have been very sharp.
Now, Dave was always incredibly possessive, protective and particular about his equipment and took pride in how he looked after it, so you can take it from me that he kept his cutting tools very, very sharp.
He was unaware that there was a young nurse standing behind him as he gave his reply to the doctor:
"Well there's only one job I know of that needs a blunt tool"
Well, if we're sharing horror stories... :)
I used to be a claims handler for a major UK company, and one of the companies we insured was a footwear manufacturer. Cutting out leather soles involved placing "cookie cutter" type templates on a sheet of leather, before a machine driven press would drop down from above and the pressure would cut out the pieces. Operation of the press was by a foot operated switch. The skill was in placing the templates so they tessellated (I love that word) as well as possible and get the cuts done as quickly as possible. One day, an operator was cutting out soles when he hit the foot operated switch too soon, the press came down and his fingers were still in the way... cue amputation of several digits, a whole lot of claret and an expensive Employer's Liability claim...
We duly dispatched our claims investigator to the scene, and he met with the victim's foreman, who showed the investigator exactly what had happened - how the machine was loaded with the cutters, and how the operator must have left his hands in the machine before he pressed the switch with his foot...
Yep, you've guessed it - right there and then he repeated the accident in all its gory detail, chopping off his own fingers for the benefit of the investigator! :doh:
Cue the 2nd very expensive claim...
The Grand Wazoo
01-10-2010, 20:58
Eeek, that smarts a bit.
That reminds me of Findlay's flying finger.........no, I'll tell you later!
I've got a saw-mill horror story too, but I'll wait for later as well! ("Must be true, bloke said, down the pub...!")
The Grand Wazoo
01-10-2010, 21:06
Ha yes, Findlay worked in the sawmill!
The Grand Wazoo
01-10-2010, 23:53
Ok, so it's time for the tale of Findlay's Flying Finger.
.........are you sitting comfortably?
Findlay was a keen gardener who was a forestry worker. He worked in a squad of guys who used to work in the sawmill occasionally & one day he decided to take home some timber he'd cut for himself to use as bean-sticks for his kitchen garden. He had the pile of wood but when he tried to carry them all in one go, things would get untidy & he'd drop some of the pieces.
So Findlay decided that the thing to do would be to get himself a piece of string & tie 'em all together. He found some nylon bailing twine & it was quite long, so rather than finding a knife, he thought it would be a good plan to cut it with the bandsaw.
Now Findlay knew that the band travelled pretty quickly & there was a good chance that it might tear the string out of his hands. Well if this happened, poor old Findlay might get in trouble 'cos the nylon string might get bound around the drive mechanism of the saw and cause a breakdown. So concientious old Findlay wrapped the jolly old string round his fingers to make sure that the naughty old machine wouldn't get him into bother with the bosses.
Now, it's a funny thing but that naughty old machine didn't stop or slow down when it met the resistance that Findlay's phalanges were able to offer. But it didn't cut the string either. Findlay felt a jolt and got a bit of a fright when his arm got slammed down onto the base of the bandsaw - careful now, that was close, that blade's sharp y'know!!
Shortly after this, Findlay realised that he'd just joined the (fairly well populated) club of true sawmillers - the ones who can no longer count to ten!
But what happened to the finger? They searched for it high & low with no luck. Three weeks later someone spotted something sticking out of the wall about fifteen feet up - it was Findlay's Flying Finger!
Hmmm, sounds like I need to tell you about my neighbour, known to one and all as Mad Andrews.
Mad is a bit accident prone. His first major event happened on a road construction project, working in a manhole using a pneumatic drill to punch a hole in the side, he decided to hang the drill from a rope just below waist level. Inevitably the drill slipped, rotated through 180 degrees and nearly ruined his chances of reproduction.
He later got a job as a GRP laminator for a local boatbuilder. Working one day laying up a large hull, he was overcome by fumes, passed out and fell into the bottom of the boat. A few minutes later he came round to find that the resin had set and he was stuck firmly in place. Result, one large Mad-shaped expensive hole in the bottom of someone's luxury yacht.
His piece-de-resistance came a year or so later in another boatyard. Cutting a piece of timber with a radial arm saw, he felt a jolt and found he'd pulled it neatly across just below the knuckles of his left hand. He managed to find all four fingers and the thumb, but sadly the medical technology of the early seventies wasn't up to the challenge, so despite 13hours on the operating table, he is now the proud owner of a wobbly stump.
They don't call him Mad for nothing!
I'll save my story until there's no danger of anyone eating whilst they read it...
(Findlay's Flying Finger would make a great name for a band, don't ya think? Maybe Mad Andrews could be the singer - I doubt he'd be much cop on the guitar or drums...)
twelvebears
02-10-2010, 16:02
Hope it heals soon Mark, that will make working tricky!
I once put a very pointy screwdriver most of the way through the one hand when I slipped while attaching some banana plugs.
Not as go as my late Dad however. Missing the tips of two fingers as a consequence of working in cabinet makers and using a bandsaw in the days before Health and Safety when guards were optional....
Reid Malenfant
03-10-2010, 16:12
It must be silly season :eyebrows: Just managed to slice a finger open on a sheet of glass :doh: There i was safely holding it in the one hand & having unlocked a door with the other promptly returned said key to right hand pocket & my little finger sliced straight along the edge :mental:
Must think about every movement when handling glass in future :eyebrows:
Can't say i have seen so much blood in ages, the glass was covered, there was a detectable trail from the shed to house back door, the door got a good splashing, trail into the kitchen & a completely soaked handkerchief before managing to get a rather big plaster over it :lolsign:
Plaster off tomorrow & let the thing breathe :whistle: It could probably do with stitching up but stuff cycling to the hospital & a wasted evening sitting in A&E :zzz:
Don't worry Mark, your hand is definately a far worse cut than this ;)
"The Post (above) is Worthless Without Pics......!!" :eyebrows:
Marco.
P.S Always wear thick gloves when handling glass, ya daftee ;)
Reid Malenfant
03-10-2010, 17:45
"The Post (above) is Worthless Without Pics......!!" :eyebrows:
Marco.
P.S Always wear gloves when handling glass, ya daftee ;)
Yes, a very good idea :lol:
Ok, so you asked for it :ner:
Just took the pic & the blood still hasn't dried on this handkerchief yet :eyebrows:
http://i939.photobucket.com/albums/ad240/speakermark/Ooops/Picture001-1.jpg
Washed most of the blood off, but it's plain to see there was quite a big trickle going all over my hand ;)
http://i939.photobucket.com/albums/ad240/speakermark/Ooops/Picture003-1.jpg
http://i939.photobucket.com/albums/ad240/speakermark/Ooops/Picture004-1.jpg
It got all over the place :scratch:
http://i939.photobucket.com/albums/ad240/speakermark/Ooops/Picture005-1.jpg
Suitably plastered
http://i939.photobucket.com/albums/ad240/speakermark/Ooops/Picture002-1.jpg
Beer time :cool:
Lurvely - yum yum!!
I fancy a barbecued pork pizza now... :eyebrows:
Marco.
Reid Malenfant
03-10-2010, 18:01
I'd have thought a rare steak would be more appropriate :eyebrows:
Next time i handle glass i'll remember what you suggested, i don't know why i didn't think of wareing gloves myself as i know a chap that works for a glazing firm & he always does :rolleyes:
:doh:
I'm used to it, Mark, working with 4ft square sheets of 2mm float glass, which I use for picture framing in my art business - the edges of those freakin' babies are like razor blades, so if you're carrying a sheet over to the bench to cut to size and drag an edge of the glass along unprotected hands, you can say ta-ta to yer digits! :eek:
Or yer nut, if you get yer neck in the way lifting sheets high up off of the delivery van........
:chainsaw:
Marco.
P.S I'm washing the pizza down with some claret ;)
Reid Malenfant
03-10-2010, 18:19
P.S I'm washing the pizza down with some claret ;)
Blood of christ :eyebrows:
I'll be honest, i didn't know 2mm glass was available :scratch: Oh well, it'll soon be replaced with 3 or 4mm acrylic anyway so no more sliced digits :)
I'm used to it, Mark, working with 4ft square sheets of 2mm float glass, which I use for picture framing in my art business - the edges of those freakin' babies are like razor blades, so if you're carrying a sheet over to the bench to cut to size and drag an edge of the glass along unprotected hands, you can say ta-ta to yer digits! :eek:
Or yer nut, if you get yer neck in the way lifting sheets high up off of the delivery van........
:chainsaw:
Marco.
P.S I'm washing the pizza down with some claret ;)
Care to recommend a claret to go with pizza, Marco? Would have thought a nice Tuscan chianti would be more appropriate. :eyebrows:
Regards
Lol - 'claret', Cockney slang for blood... Geddit? ;)
Marco.
Lol - 'claret', Cockney slang for blood... Geddit? ;)
Marco.
The cockney (rhyming) slang for blood is: "Roy Hudd". Still think a nice chianti would go better than blood - you and your Transylvanian tastes! :eyebrows:
Regards
Haha, who said anything about rhyming slang, old chap? I think you'll find that 'claret' is the slang most Londoners would use for blood!
"Roy Hudd" reminds me of 'fud', which is something entirely different! :lol:
Mmm... Liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti? :eyebrows:
Marco.
Haha, who said anything about rhyming slang, old chap? I think you'll find that 'claret' is the slang most Londoners would use for blood!
"Roy Hudd" reminds me of 'fud', which is something entirely different! :lol:
Mmm... Liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti? :eyebrows:
Marco.
For that the cockney rhyming slang can be variously: "struggle and grunt", "back-to-front", and "James/Gareth/Berkshire Hunt" (fortunately not, as yet, "Barry"!).
Any idea how human liver compares with the best lambs liver?
Regards
It depends if it's fresh or frozen.
Marco.
Mark Grant
12-11-2010, 18:00
It must be silly season :eyebrows: Just managed to slice a finger open on a sheet of glass :doh:
Hope that has healed up nicely :)
Reid Malenfant
12-11-2010, 18:09
Hope that has healed up nicely :)
It was nowhere near as bad as the cut on the palm of your hand Mark, yes it's now fully healed thanks, just a 1cm scar to show for it :eyebrows:
I hope your hand is fully mended fella, that looked nasty :doh:
Mark Grant
12-11-2010, 18:12
Pleased you are healed :)
I have a fairly wide scar at the moment, Is not to bad though, I will post some photos :)
Rare Bird
12-11-2010, 18:22
The most stupid, stupid thing i ever did was pick a Mitre cutting Guilotine up by the blades, if it were not for my mega quick realisation as to what i was doing, my fingers would have been off
Mark Grant
12-11-2010, 18:35
In no way wishing to downplay your discomfort and concern Mark, that cut will heal, though it should have been stitched and you will, I'm afraid, be left with a wide scar. As long as no nerves were severed or damaged, you should recover full flexibility and mobility of your hand. (Nerves are very slow to grow).
Regards
You are right Barry, it has healed fairly well :)
It should have been stitched but I made the mistake of going to the nearest city hospital rather than a much better hospital that was a bit further away in a different county with a different (and better) NHS trust just 20 minutes away... lesson learnt and the best hospital postcodes now saved in my sat nav and mobile phone for any future incident.
My doctor was suprised it had not been stitched when I went to see him when it was weepy, slightly wiffy and open looking.
Mark Grant
12-11-2010, 18:36
The most stupid, stupid thing i ever did was pick a Mitre cutting Guilotine up by the blades, if it were not for my mega quick realisation as to what i was doing, my fingers would have been off
Thats was close, if the weighty top part of that had come down across your fingers .....:eek:
Mark Grant
12-11-2010, 20:40
Pictures: (full size on flickr.)
Day 1, poor quality from mobile phone with shaky hand while sat in hospital waiting to be bodged up with Steri strips by young auxillary nurse. ( He was a nice young man, just lacked experience I think and should have asked for a doctors opinion)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4118/5029536098_9128203d9e.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yo43yo/5029536098/)
Marks cut hand - Day 1 - carving knife accident ! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yo43yo/5029536098/) by Mark G. in England (http://www.flickr.com/people/yo43yo/), on Flickr
Day 4 Steri strip failure:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4106/5038747585_5fa8a5ef53_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yo43yo/5038747585/)
Marks cut hand - day 4 after injury- Carving knife accident ! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yo43yo/5038747585/) by Mark G. in England (http://www.flickr.com/people/yo43yo/), on Flickr
A couple of recent pictures:
5 weeks of healing:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1429/5169128705_fb7797248d_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yo43yo/5169128705/)
My cut hand - 5 weeks after injury (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yo43yo/5169128705/) by Mark G. in England (http://www.flickr.com/people/yo43yo/), on Flickr
6 weeks of healing:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4132/5169132241_e089983fab_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yo43yo/5169132241/)
My cut hand - 6 weeks after injury (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yo43yo/5169132241/) by Mark G. in England (http://www.flickr.com/people/yo43yo/), on Flickr
A bit of a scar but it might blend in.
Is still a bit senstive to touch.
At least the phantom electric shocks have stopped now.
I was getting random electric shocks off anything I picked up for about two weeks. Was intersting when picking up drinks etc.:eek:
Mark.
Reid Malenfant
12-11-2010, 20:49
At least the phantom electric shocks have stopped now.
I was getting random electric shocks off anything I picked up for about two weeks. Was intersting when picking up drinks etc.:eek:
Mark.
Shocking :eek: 3023
:lolsign:
Another few weeks to a month & there will be little to show me thinks ;)
Glad you have a handy hand again :eyebrows:
aquapiranha
12-11-2010, 20:53
That'll learn ya not to play with knives.... :lol:
On a more serious note, looks like it has healed really well, a shame coz scars are for hard men.
Rare Bird
12-11-2010, 21:06
Who wants to see three giant finger tip scars where i shaved em off on a woodworking planner thicknesser?
:lolsign:
michaelhigh
20-11-2010, 06:22
Strange, I was just reading a post on another forum, where a chap accidently dropped a knife and stabbed himself just above the ankle. His missus is giving him grief for all the "claret" on the living room carpet. :)
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
This attitude is a prime example of why I'm single, probably. I'm a puss when it comes to grievious injury. Once my dad put a power saw through the top of his leg above the knee, not too deep, and my 16-year-old son was there for a visit. I sent him into the emergency room to tend to my dad, I was so mad at my dad, I'd told him not to run the saw, he's 83. He's got no business doing that foolish nonsense, he was cleaning up after a worker who'd left a mess, and he was sawing wood to throw away. I told him that the dude would be back to clean up, but he would have none of it...:mental::mental::mental::mental::mental::ment al:
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