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Monday, April 22, 2013
Oh My Finger
15 comments:
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Anonymous said...
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I'm laughing... I did the same thing on Saturday and since I take blood thinners, couldn't get the bleeding stopped. Wrapped in bandaid and paper towel, I sat down to watch an old episode of "Deadliest Catch" and stay out of trouble. My wife screeched something about the ER when she saw all the blood. The deck hand on TV cut his finger and used electrical tape to fix it and went back to work. I was considering super glue. Then, the little dog wanted to clean my pants, maybe we don't feed her enough.
Ignore amos -
4/22/13, 12:01 PM
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Helly said...
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Fascinating, Rodge. If I ever get in the mood to food-process myself, I'll keep your 1st aid invention in mind.
Speaking of innovations, I have a culinary breakthrough for you. This project would be perfect for your blog-impaired convalescence. -
4/22/13, 12:52 PM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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I see a possible "confabulation breakthrough," or even a "confoundedness breakthrough, but where is the culinary part?
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4/22/13, 1:01 PM
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mostly cajun said...
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Ah, yes! Electrical tape. Many are the times I fashioned an impromptu bandage out of Scotch 33 electrical tape and a bit of a Wipe-All. Drives the safety department nuts!
MC -
4/22/13, 1:16 PM
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Anonymous said...
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At a rifle match a couple weeks ago, the local genius managed to close the bolt of his AR-15 on his trigger finger. How in the world he managed that is difficult to explain, but those of you old enough to remember the M-1 Thumb would have been very proud of him.
We were of course very helpful and did not snicker or laugh out loud as he bled and the flesh formerly at the tip of his finger hung flapped about in the breeze. Oh no, not us, surely not!
Sir H the Comet -
4/22/13, 3:07 PM
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MAX Redline said...
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I've used super glue many a time with good results - it's not much different from the surgical stuff.
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4/22/13, 3:10 PM
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Juice said...
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Elevate the wound, then paper towel wrap and the nearest tape of any kind. Works every time. Glad you didn't lose a piece of that finger, or did you?
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4/22/13, 3:27 PM
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Chunkdog1 said...
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I sliced off a chunk of my thumb knuckle once. It wouldn't stop bleeding and was hanging on by a piece of skin.
I held a bag of ice to it,with my hand elevated, which slowed the bleeding.
I then, really quickly squirted some super glue in there and pressed it down. It still bled a little, so I put a little more super glue around the outside, wrapped a bandaid around it, and it worked. i thought I was going to have to go to the ER, but didn't.
They use medical grade super glue in war, when there is no medical facility close. But for a finger the regular worked fine. And it didn't sting at all. -
4/22/13, 4:27 PM
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Anonymous said...
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"Medical Grade" is liquid bandage. The difference between liquid bandage and Superglue is that the latter contains Cyanide. Probably not enough to kill you, but probably not good for you. Personally, I buy the more expensive shit without the Cyanide.
Casca -
4/22/13, 4:36 PM
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Anonymous said...
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I keep Celox in my studio(I work with glass) car & home and it's in my fanny pack when I go hunting-amazing stuff-it's a military grade powder that almost immediately coagulates blood at the wound-you can get it online-pricey but worth it.
MM -
4/22/13, 6:01 PM
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Helly said...
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"but where is the culinary part?"
Hahaha, *gulp*. That could have been much worse. I was running out for a swim, and the stupid bluetooth glitched, and this proves you should be the blogger and not me.
Anyway, the exciting news is I hacked my stove and the house didn't burn down. One of the back burners is now temperature controlled for Zero Delta T cooking. My sous vide capacity instantly heptupled, so now I can dunk a whole pork shoulder or brisket without even opening the cryovac packaging.
This won't produce any tough, burnt, or manly meat, but I hope you can be happy for me anyhow. -
4/22/13, 11:21 PM
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Helly said...
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Yes, Celox is awesome. I keep it in my diving bag for speargun incidents.
Remember to lick your wounds. Enzymes in saliva thwart infection and promote healing. -
4/22/13, 11:26 PM
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David said...
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I ws doing some work at a remote facility with one other engineer. We were on a tight schedule and rushing a bit when I slipped and gashed the side of my arm open. It was a pretty clean cut (about 3 inches) that was pretty deep in the middle. We didn't want to take the several hours it was going to take for me to run into the hospital and back. So my coworker butterflied it closed with small strips of duct tape.
It stopped bleeding pretty quickly and we got back to work. Then my boss, and his boss, and the safety department showed up for a safety walk through.
They were not amused and not nearly as impressed with our first aid skills as we were.
Healed up just great - small tight narrow scar that is hard to see unless I get a little suburned. -
4/23/13, 12:27 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Which reminds me, there was a man who had worked his whole life in a pickle factory. One day he came home and told his wife that he had been fired from his job. She began to scream and yell, "You have given them twenty years of devoted service. Why did they fire you?" "For twenty years I've wanted to stick my pecker in the pickle slicer," he explained, "and today I finally did it!" The wife ran over and pulled his pants down to see what damage had been done. "You look okay," she said with a sigh of relief. "So what happened to the pickle slicer?" "Well," he said with hesitation, "they fired her, too."
oy vey ole' -
4/23/13, 1:14 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Yunnan Paiyo, or Baiyao, different spellings, is a Traditional Chinese Medicine (tcm) that will pretty much immediately stop any bleeding. It was/is given in a package to the Chinese army for gunshot wounds, and can be used internally or externally. Works amazingly.
I owned a small chain of martial art schools, part of my training was herbal and Chinese medicine, especially for trauma and wounds; it's considered a disgrace for a teacher to have his students limping around or with obvious injuries. Stuff works, well.
Don't get me wrong, break a leg in class (never happened) you're going to the dr, but after that you get boneset pills to shorten the healing time.
I closed up a spear wound (excited upper ranks) with Yunnan Paiyo; two days later there was no inflammation and only a small cut that looked like a scratch. -
4/24/13, 12:18 AM
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