Hey guys I'd like to share a little story that happened on 2/16. I didn't really want to share earlier because it felt like I did a stupid mistake but here it goes. 2/16 was any old rainy day, I just finished my AA degree and have a break until I transfer to a real university. So I decided to go on a little hike alone, since my girlfriend is at work. As I was driving up the mountains I noticed a lot of rocks falling down on the road but thought nothing of it, I proceeded to park at parking lot. As I was hiking around 3 miles down hill of just rained on trail, I decided to go a little off trail....big mistake. I was scrambling and climbing across some rocks up stream and I encountered this huge rock so I decided to climb it. I jumped on it and struggled but eventually I got on top of it. As I was slowly going back to trail I had to lean on some rocks for support and skip across the stream rocks. Just when I was clearing the 2nd to last stone with my left hand supporting me the rock gave way!!! I'm not sure if it dislodged itself from the new rain water or if it crumbled but it cut about an inch gash on my left middle finger. (I felt it hit bone :barf: ) It didn't hurt at first, almost like a knife cut but than blood started to squirt all over the place and I was the only person on that less traveled trail! luckily I had my first aid kit and I covered my middle finger with gauze up, I used the whole roll and the blood soaked it in half a min to a min! I didn't know fingers are so vascular. Don't worry it gets better.:jerkit: So I have to make hike 3 miles up with blood stained shirt, backpack, pants and shoes and hopefully I can make it to someone that can give me some more gauze or help me out right? WRONG!!
I met 2 hikers and all they did was stare in shock, say hello and run down trail. Just my luck eh
I eventually reached the pack station and they helped me out.what sucked was the wound was already clotting with the gauze so I had to rip the clot off, it hurts more than you think. The gash was huge!! I didn't look at it clearly until they had me rinse it out with hot water. They panicked because of was literally painting their house with my blood
. So eventually they wrapped it up for me and I drove to the E.R. and was admitted around 4:30. The nurse had to take a look at it so guess what? I had to remove gauze again!! and it clotted way better than it did before. So as i removed the gauze I noticed it stopped bleeding...until I had to rip the clot again :grumpy:. as she examined it I just sit there bleeding all over their gurney until 7!! finally the doc shows up and tells me she is gonna let someone x-ray it and that did not happen until 8. Eventually they took me to the x-ray and I had to remove gauze again....
I was thinking I should of left it bleeding so it wouldn't have to hurt when I have to show people the wound
. I bled all over their table and FINALLY the doctor came and numbed me(its suppose to be powerful enough for 2 hrs), started irrigating the wound and stitching me up (this was around 9 now so I have been bleeding for some time) She even had to put a tournacat (sp?) on my finger because the blood was not allowing her to sew me up correctly. At last she was on her 10th stitch until bad went to WORSE. I started to feel the needle... I asked her to numb me some more but she couldn't SOOO I had to bear the last 5 stitches feeling every movement. It hurts alot more than it looks. Anyways I am healing up nicely and here are the pics. (pic 1 was taken 4 days after the ER and pic 2 is around 2/28)
