Cut my thumb.

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ryts100

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So I was opening and closing my Gayle Bradley, which I had just sharpened, and I accidentally sliced a piece of my thumb off. Here's a pic(no blood):
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That's a dime in the picture, and the piece of my thumb is to the right of it.
 
Seems like you just cut the top most layer of skin. I bet it feels like a popped blister. Glad you still have most of your thumb intact.
 
I guess you did great job sharpening it :cool:, I hate then this happens , had it few times myself.
 
harkamus said:
Seems like you just cut the top most layer of skin. I bet it feels like a popped blister. Glad you still have most of your thumb intact.
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Actually, it's bleeding a bit. I've gone through 2 gauze pads so far. I have it wrapped in a gauze pad with some neosporin, with surgical tape wrapped tight around it.

trix2004 said:
I guess you did great job sharpening it :cool:, I hate then this happens , had it few times myself.
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That's what I was thinking too :D! Funny thing is, just last Tuesday I cut the same thumb with my just-sharpened Griptilian. That one was an actual cut though.
 
I ended up slicing myself good with my GB, it was like a 2inch gash on my left palm! I was in a hurry (big mistake) to cut off the end of a cable (cat5 patch cable snag proof hood) and I was holding the cable in my left hand. As I started slicing it went through teh shielding like butter and continued onto my hand. This was like 6 weeks ago.
I just saw a bright red opening on my hand and said in my mind "Oh Sh*t!", there was a customer in the room with me. Luckily she didn't see anything. I just made a tight fist, finished my job, and cleaned it up really well. No stiches thankfully.
 
BenLankford said:
I hate cutting my thumb then I can't flick my knives like I like to.
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Oh same here. I just recovered from my last cut, and now I have another one.

RevDevil said:
I ended up slicing myself good with my GB, it was like a 2inch gash on my left palm! I was in a hurry (big mistake) to cut off the end of a cable (cat5 patch cable snag proof hood) and I was holding the cable in my left hand. As I started slicing it went through teh shielding like butter and continued onto my hand. This was like 6 weeks ago.
I just saw a bright red opening on my hand and said in my mind "Oh Sh*t!", there was a customer in the room with me. Luckily she didn't see anything. I just made a tight fist, finished my job, and cleaned it up really well. No stiches thankfully.
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Wow, that sounds painful. Did the tight fist thing work? Sounds like you would just be creating more pain and squeezing the blood out at first.

Also, here's a pic of the actual cut:
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THAT looks like a stinger to me. Use some Hydrogen Peroxide on it. Luckily, the pressure from me closing my fist stopped the bleeding. The cut was only like 1/8th of an inch on the meaty part of my palm. I felt nothing when it happened. That knife is a scalpel I tell you.
 
RevDevil said:
THAT looks like a stinger to me. Use some Hydrogen Peroxide on it. Luckily, the pressure from me closing my fist stopped the bleeding. The cut was only like 1/8th of an inch on the meaty part of my palm. I felt nothing when it happened. That knife is a scalpel I tell you.
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I read somewhere that Hydrogen Peroxide kills the good bacteria that helps wounds heal. I have no idea if that's true or not, so I'm just using some Neosporin. And yeah, no kidding. I had no idea what happened when my piece of thumb hit the table. Only realized when I looked at my thumb.
 
i did something similar. i closed my military on my pinky and sliced off most of the tip. the bad part was that i had had a few bewskies at the time so my blood was thinned some so it bled and bled and bled. One of the more annoying knife injuries ive had. i still have only about a half of a finger print for that pinky. o well lol!::jerkit:
 
perchjerk said:
i did something similar. i closed my military on my pinky and sliced off most of the tip. the bad part was that i had had a few bewskies at the time so my blood was thinned some so it bled and bled and bled. One of the more annoying knife injuries ive had. i still have only about a half of a finger print for that pinky. o well lol!::jerkit:
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That sucks. At least slicing a pinky doesn't have as much of an effect on your daily routine than slicing a thumb does :p.
 
sircantaloupe said:
Those are the most annoying injuries because so many nerve endings are exposed and they are all super pissed off.
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This one didn't hurt that much surprisingly. It just bled a lot. Sometimes when I'm holding my really still, I can feel the pulse in it. Pretty neat.
 
I chopped off the tip of my thumb down to the bone with a hatchet last year They sting a bit and take forever to heal.
 
GWashington1732 said:
I chopped off the tip of my thumb down to the bone with a hatchet last year They sting a bit and take forever to heal.
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My thumb hurts just thinking about that. Or maybe it's the cut :p. I'm interested to see how this one heals up, if there will be a slant in my thumb because of it.
 
ryts100 said:
My thumb hurts just thinking about that. Or maybe it's the cut :p. I'm interested to see how this one heals up, if there will be a slant in my thumb because of it.
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There will be a slant for a little while. But then it'll bulge out and all you'll have is scar tissue. Plus, if you managed to hit really deep and take off the nerve, like I did, you'll have to deal with something similar to phantom limb pain as the nerve regrows, and that takes a long time.
 
GWashington1732 said:
There will be a slant for a little while. But then it'll bulge out and all you'll have is scar tissue. Plus, if you managed to hit really deep and take off the nerve, like I did, you'll have to deal with something similar to phantom limb pain as the nerve regrows, and that takes a long time.
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I don't think I hit a nerve, but I'm not sure. If I hit a nerve I'm guessing it would hurt a lot more/when I move it, but it doesn't, so I'm hoping I didn't hit a nerve.
 
One of my worst cuts ever was caused by my Spyderco Smallfly. I was doing a Y2K rollover and I had the blade turned wrong. Well when it hit down on my top 3 knuckles she cut deep. It bled like crazy and I have 2 really noticeable scars from it.
 
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