was at the rear doors of my loaded trucks trailer cutting off one of those serialized metal seals, was using my new Buck Strider when it slipped off the seal and jabbed me point first into my left wrist puncturing my palmar-arch artery...very red blood, was spurting out over four feet at first...i quickly had the dock boss call 911..got a small rubber bungee cord and wrapped it around my forearm til ems arrived, went in and had local anesthisia and had it cleaned and two sets of sutures. Be careful out there.
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Ouchhh !!! Good thing you think fast. Hope it heals up in a hurry. Next time remember, it's the knife that's built like a tank, not you!
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Tough break! but cuts are bound to happen, even in the best of families.....
Hope it heals quickly for you!
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Hope it heals quickly for you!
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rickmos,
You had better send that DANGEROUS Buck knife to me RIGHT NOW, before you cut yourself again!.
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E-mail me, and I'll e-mail back my address to send the knife to...For your protection.
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You had better send that DANGEROUS Buck knife to me RIGHT NOW, before you cut yourself again!.
E-mail me, and I'll e-mail back my address to send the knife to...For your protection.
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Dayum!!!! That hurts me just thinking about it.
Here's to a speedy recovery and very safe practices in the future.
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Dayum!!!! That hurts me just thinking about it.
Here's to a speedy recovery and very safe practices in the future.
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When I cut my thumb fairly badly, Walt Welch gave me some good advise: figure out as soon as possible whether or not there's tendon damage. At least in the case of a finger tendon cut, you've got about two weeks before surgery stops being an option.
Now, I'm no doctor. You've got wrist damage, so that "two week" figure may be off. And I don't know if your doctors were able to sort out tendon diagnostics when you were at the hospital. But it's possible there was too much pain to test-flex your hand and fingers properly right away.
In my case, I was able to test my thumb tendons after about three days without blowing the wound open again. Rather than actually moving the thumb, I was able to "static test" the tendons by pushing against pressure the other way.
If I was in your shoes, I'd try and test every tendon sometime in the next week or so. If anything seems weak, you'll have to think about surgery fast.
I'm not a doctor! I hope Walt chimes in on this thread. If not, you might consider dropping him EMail. And if testing those tendons *hurts*, don't...see a doctor. Just remember there's a clock ticking on whether or not tendons are fixable, and I don't know just how long the clock is set.
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Now, I'm no doctor. You've got wrist damage, so that "two week" figure may be off. And I don't know if your doctors were able to sort out tendon diagnostics when you were at the hospital. But it's possible there was too much pain to test-flex your hand and fingers properly right away.
In my case, I was able to test my thumb tendons after about three days without blowing the wound open again. Rather than actually moving the thumb, I was able to "static test" the tendons by pushing against pressure the other way.
If I was in your shoes, I'd try and test every tendon sometime in the next week or so. If anything seems weak, you'll have to think about surgery fast.
I'm not a doctor! I hope Walt chimes in on this thread. If not, you might consider dropping him EMail. And if testing those tendons *hurts*, don't...see a doctor. Just remember there's a clock ticking on whether or not tendons are fixable, and I don't know just how long the clock is set.
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Jim, wish I'd heard that 4 years ago, my thumb is still waiting for the two surgeries that it will now take.
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That's great advice to quickly check tendons and nerves after a bad cut, as they eventually become unrepairable. It's weird how you hear all those stories where the medics forget to check those things.
Cutting tendons and nerves is bad enough, but arteries? Geez! That's scary stuff. Hmm... looking through Gray's Anatomy... you must have cut right at the base of the hand, where the ulnar branches off into the palmar arches. Ugh! Glad you're ok.
Cutting tendons and nerves is bad enough, but arteries? Geez! That's scary stuff. Hmm... looking through Gray's Anatomy... you must have cut right at the base of the hand, where the ulnar branches off into the palmar arches. Ugh! Glad you're ok.
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