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So I was attemptin to sharpen my necker yesterday with one of those small pocket sharpeners with the ceramic rods that criss cross and I can't even remember why I was holding it the way I was, but it was without and observation of knife safety. And then it happened
I was drawing the tip of the knife through the sharpener and just kept going. It happened super fast but the next thing I know I filleted my thumb! In one small swipe it cut through about an 1/8" inch if skin and flesh and went basically down to the knuckle. It didn't hurt when it happened but I knew it went deep when not just blood was pouring out. There was a yellowish watery liquid too, like thin puss but I had no previous wound or anything at all wrong with that thumb that it could have come from. So does anyone know what it could have been? Does something else come out when you cut to a certain depth? Well once i was running under water to clean it was when it really started to gush. I went though a couple wads of gauze just trying to keep it dry enough to bandage. Luckily the chuck didn't get cut off, it was cut like a flap so with it pushed down and fit into place I then wrapped it. I've since downgraded to a smaller sterile pad and some tape instead of the huge gauze pad I had originally. It probably could have gotten stitched if I took it to a hospital but I'm just hoping that with it in place and wrapped tight, that it will just heal itself up in a week or two. This comes just about 6 weeks after a defective utility knife my dad was using to cut drywall malfuntioned and sliced off a large filet from his finger causing him to have an emergency skin graph. I gues you can tell that we're a couple of Polacks(?spelling)
But I guess just like they say a bomb maker will eventually blow of a finger or two, its only natural for someone who spends their life around knives to have a mishap every once in a while. But I still love my necker. And the worst part is, it didn't even get very sharp. I'm just glad it happened to my non-predominant hand, cuz I pretty much have no opposable thumb on this hand now. Sorry I don't have any pics but maybe when I change the bandages I'll snap a few. In the meantime you can donate sympathy knives to me and my family
I was drawing the tip of the knife through the sharpener and just kept going. It happened super fast but the next thing I know I filleted my thumb! In one small swipe it cut through about an 1/8" inch if skin and flesh and went basically down to the knuckle. It didn't hurt when it happened but I knew it went deep when not just blood was pouring out. There was a yellowish watery liquid too, like thin puss but I had no previous wound or anything at all wrong with that thumb that it could have come from. So does anyone know what it could have been? Does something else come out when you cut to a certain depth? Well once i was running under water to clean it was when it really started to gush. I went though a couple wads of gauze just trying to keep it dry enough to bandage. Luckily the chuck didn't get cut off, it was cut like a flap so with it pushed down and fit into place I then wrapped it. I've since downgraded to a smaller sterile pad and some tape instead of the huge gauze pad I had originally. It probably could have gotten stitched if I took it to a hospital but I'm just hoping that with it in place and wrapped tight, that it will just heal itself up in a week or two. This comes just about 6 weeks after a defective utility knife my dad was using to cut drywall malfuntioned and sliced off a large filet from his finger causing him to have an emergency skin graph. I gues you can tell that we're a couple of Polacks(?spelling) But I guess just like they say a bomb maker will eventually blow of a finger or two, its only natural for someone who spends their life around knives to have a mishap every once in a while. But I still love my necker. And the worst part is, it didn't even get very sharp. I'm just glad it happened to my non-predominant hand, cuz I pretty much have no opposable thumb on this hand now. Sorry I don't have any pics but maybe when I change the bandages I'll snap a few. In the meantime you can donate sympathy knives to me and my family
