Admit it... how bad have you cut yourself ?

Not badly, but always exceedingly stupidly. Most memorably:
- Taking an angry back-slash at a bunch of rattan tendrils that were holding my right leg in a southern Vietnamese forest. Didn't cut the rattan (Devil's plant), but did take a chunk out of my calf.
- Flipping and catching a knife in my kitchen -> short trip to the ER for a couple of stitches in my wrist.
- Dropping a knife on my bare foot. Felt a small impact and thought "Thank God it was only the handle that hit me!", until I looked down and saw a tiny fountain of bright red blood reaching most of the way up my shin.
 
rhino said:
Are unpleasant injury and ER photos allowed in this topic?
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Without them: we might as well be discussing the weather...
Go ahead and post them. The weak stomachs just will have to refrain from any peeking.
 
Bob Denman said:
Without them: we might as well be discussing the weather...
Go ahead and post them. The weak stomachs just will have to refrain from any peeking.
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Mr. Denman has authorized the following . . . do not look if you are easily offended or squeamish!

The following are the results of an encounter between a small Red Shed fixed blade and a stupidly negligent pachyderm.

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I've been fortunate to never have cut myself that badly. Maybe it was because my father was a moose hunter and discussed knife handling with me when I was a child. My wife however almost took a good chunk of her thumb tip off years ago with an Endura. She is more attentive now. Simmilar to when she smashed her car at an intersection, not long after she got her drivers license. She is a very attentive driver now. Funny how that works.
 
Rhino,
WOW! How many times did you manage to stab yourself; before they wrestled the offending weapon out of your hands?
How long did it take to heal up?
 
Bob Denman said:
Rhino,
WOW! How many times did you manage to stab yourself; before they wrestled the offending weapon out of your hands?
How long did it take to heal up?
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I was working on a one-stick fire at the entrance of my garage. I beaver-chewed through a stick, but not quite far enough for it to snap cleanly. For some unknown reason, I applied a little pressure to the piece that was not letting go ... then it let go. Much to my chagrin, my other hand was in the way. A moment of lapsed concentration. On the bright side, the knife was very sharp and I felt nothing by the warmth when it started to bleed. Also in my favor is that while deep, the cut was mostly parallel to my finger, so I had minimal damage to stuff that will never heal. I knew right away I had to go the ER as soon as I saw the outline of the blood flowing outward. I applied pressure with paper towels, elevated, and got SWMBO to drive me to the ER.

I removed the sutures at the one week mark, as per the instructions (technically I was supposed to go to my primary care doc or return to the ER, but I can do stuff like that myself). Unfortunately, as you can see, the margins of the wound had not properly knit and after I popped a few sutures, the finger popped open as well. The same thing would have happened in the ER, so I managed the remaining healing with frequent irrigation and a coban pressure wrap. It took maybe a month after I removed the sutures before I could do with it undressed/bandaged and a few more weeks before it healed fully. That time would have been dramatically shortened (in my opinion) if I'd left the sutures for another few days and allowed the margins a better chance to knit back together.

Pain was minimal, but it was an unpleasant sight from start to finish!

Also . . . my track record with knives is why I avoid using axes and hatchets. A mistake with a knife can send you to the ER, but a mistake with an ax and your new name is Stumpy (if you live).
 
Whew! Glad that you survived it with a minimum amount of maximum damage! 👍
 
If you own and play with sharp sticks: the sight of a little blood should be about as common as sunrise...
 
https://imgur.com/a/D0kg2

Did this with a Benchmade AFO II. Stupidity and stress don’t mix. A lot of crap going on at the house in the background, mixed with my stress of my grandfather having just passed, and trying to correct the blade play by forcing the stop pin into alignment don’t mix, specifically. I thought the spine was facing my palm. Turns out it was the edge. Severed both flexor tendons in the index finger. Missed the nerves but they still wound up getting hung up on scar tissue and impacting sense of touch.
 
Without trying to sound preachy: are we seeing a common theme to the actual causes of these accidents?
 
Worst ?

I was working on a blade that was fixed in a vice. Someone distracted me, leading the outside edge of my hand to get stabbed by the unmoveable . . . very pointy blade.

Hospital for operation, as it damaged the nerves and i was getting nasty "electric" type shocks down the length of my little finger.

Surprisingly little blood for such a wound.

I also accidently stabbed myself in the chest with a Real Steel Metamorph fixed (don't ask how, i'm just a prat} scared the s**t out of me. Blood running all over me. It was just where my heart is, but luckily i realised it had only gone in about 1/4"
 
When I was 4 yrs old, i was playing in my grandparents yard which was right next to a little country store. An open and discarded Vienna sausage can was laying in the yard. Of course I was running around and fell on it. That scar went across my whole left hand at that age. Now it goes across about half, but I have the permanent smiley half circle scar as a reminder. I don't really blame myself for that one. In recent years I have a few I do take full credit for, such as nearly cutting my left index finger off with a hatchet, and requiring more than a few stitches in my left thumb from turning around into a razor sharp knife I had in a vise. I have an even stupider and worse injury at the tip of my left index finger I refuse to go into detail about. All injuries to my left hand. Perhaps I need to wear permanent protection over that left hand. I have also broken both arms, left playing baseball when I had a collision with a much larger 1st basemen who fell on top of me, the right arm taking a charge playing basketball with a dude built like a human bowling ball. That one was when I was 40 years old. I only watch sports now,lol.
 
Right thumb near the tip. Couple years ago. Pretty deep. Healed back and feeling (sensitivity) in the tip of my thumb is not the same.
 
Murdamook said:
https://imgur.com/a/D0kg2

Did this with a Benchmade AFO II. Stupidity and stress don’t mix. A lot of crap going on at the house in the background, mixed with my stress of my grandfather having just passed, and trying to correct the blade play by forcing the stop pin into alignment don’t mix, specifically. I thought the spine was facing my palm. Turns out it was the edge. Severed both flexor tendons in the index finger. Missed the nerves but they still wound up getting hung up on scar tissue and impacting sense of touch.
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Wow I thought I cut myself badly but this makes my wound look like a paper cut.

By the way I posted a “like” by accident on your post instead of a “wow”, definitely don’t like what happened to you!
 
rctic said:
Wow I thought I cut myself badly but this makes my wound look like a paper cut.

By the way I posted a “like” by accident on your post instead of a “wow”, definitely don’t like what happened to you!
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Haha. All good. I saw my aunt on the way to the hospital for surgery and she told me to see if the doctor could put a few more brain cells in my skull while I was under. Fun times.
 
Yesterday, I cut myself for the first time in years. I was butchering a turkey, using a Mora, and I barely nicked the knuckle on my left thumb. I still went through 3 bandaids before it stopped bleeding. However, it was so shallow, in 1 day, it has almost disappeared. It was a good reminder to be careful.

Joe
 
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