Gator got me today.

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ElCuchillo

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Hey guys. Just thought I'd fill you guys in. I was doing the Gator wrestling show at work today, and the gator got my hand. Luckily, as it was closing it's jaws on my hand, I managed to pull out. However, that resulted in a deep, three inch gash on my hand. Right on the meaty part of my palm, below my thumb. It's so deep that I opened up the gash slightly and showed my wife my tendon. There it was, moving back and forth with my thumb. Ugly wound, but it could have been worse. I've actually had a gator chomp DOWN on my hand in the past, so I know how THAT feels. I'll post pictures later.
How this ties into this thread is, the security guard was dressing the wound and had nothing to cut the rolled up gauze with, so I handed her my Case Peanut, and it did the trick. LOL. Funny how this story eventually led back to the subject of knives!!!
 
Ouch I hope you feel better and heal quickly. If ya get a chance snap a few pics for us.
 
Ouch! Best wishes on the mending. So, how did the wife react to, "Hey, Honey! Look at this!" when you did the tendon show? :eek: - :barf: or :rolleyes: ? Hopefully not, :mad:
 
Now that's a bad day at the office! No matter how crappy my days get at least I don't have to worry about getting bitten by a gator. Hope you heal up soon. I'm sure you've done it, but if not get to a doctor and start up the antibiotics! You should have poked that gator in the eye with that peanut!!
 
What he said ------------- ANTIBIOTICS NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stitches maybe...........

Syn
 
Most of us go through life without knowing anyone who has been bitten by an alligator. Well, other than "Amos Moses," of course. And now all of the BladeForums.com "knows" a fellow who has been bitten by gators more than once!

I agree on the antibiotics. Reptiles can have a lot of serious bacteria in their mouths. I would also get it professionally irrigated and debrided, but that's just me.
 
Well, here's the deal with a Gator bite. Ya gotta let it heal from the inside out, so ya can't stitch it up. When we get bite, we usually pour bleach in it first. A bit crude, sure, but it cleans out EVERYTHING. Like Rhino said, it's the bacteria that gets ya, so we make sure we get it all. However, because of where I got bit, there was the fear that a ligament or tendon was damaged, in which case we did not want to be pouring bleach into it. While it cleans you out, it DOES kill some tissue as well. On the muscle or skin it really is no big deal, as it heals and grows back. On a ligament? A tendon? Not a good idea. I've been soaking it in epson salt for about thirty minutes (that doesn't feel really good at all), and slathering it with triple antibiotics. As soon as I upload the pictures, I'll post them.
As for my wife, Amos? She just rolled her eyes. Just another in a long line of bites, stings, and injuries she's seen me go through. Occupational hazards, I guess. LOL. It was pretty funny, though, because as I was dressing the wound and looking at the tendon moving around, I yelled "Honey, ya wanna see the tendon?" While she rolled her eyes, and gave me a disgusted look, she did get up off the couch and come into the bathroom to look. "Oh gosh!! That is the grossest thing I've ever seen... but I can't take my eyes off it!!"
 
Hah! You have a good wife!

And a crazy job!

If an alligator bit me and I survived it, I'd be having gator steaks for dinner and be looking forward to my new gator skin belt after it came back thebeltman.net!
 
You should have bitten that gator right back.
That would have showed him...

I'll raise a drum of whiskey tonight for your getting well soon.

/ Karl
 
ElCuchillo said:
When we get bite, we usually pour bleach in it first. A bit crude, sure, but it cleans out EVERYTHING.
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Man, I was born and raised in South Florida. My Grandma moved to Davie in 1905. I KNOW there are hospitals and doctors there!!! I'd suggest, you know, seeing a professional. But that's just me.
 
Why get professional medical treatment when a bunch of us goofballs will give you free advice on the internet? God gave you a spare hand in case the injured one rots off. :thumbup:

cheers
 
Hey ElCuchillo, lets be a little more carefull out there!

You were issued two good hands by the almighty, lets try to keep them where they belong. Get well soon man. :D
 
Sweet Mother of all that is good and Holy! I've been bitten by some critters in my time but a Freakin' Gator...I'm afraid that after that, I'd just have to tell Steve-O, Chris Pontius, and, yes, Wee-Man that I was retiring.

I used to work with the Military Working Dog Program...we had a rule that if you were bitten it was because YOU did something wrong...similar rule for gator handling?
 
Yikes!!! I get cranky if I get a nasty paper cut!! Gator bite?!?

Heal soon and well.

(p.s. Growing up, any injury we got, Mom poured Clorox on it.)
 
Do you take your Clorox straight, or dilluted?

Serious question, despite the way it was asked... :)

Heal quick! Things that draw blood should be made of steel, not calcium and (future) leather.

-- Sam
 
ParaGlock said:
Do you take your Clorox straight, or dilluted?

Serious question, despite the way it was asked... :)

Heal quick! Things that draw blood should be made of steel, not calcium and (future) leather.

-- Sam
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I'm sure if, as a kid, I got a gator bite (in Chicago?), Mom would have poured Clorox on the bite the usual way, right out of the blue and white plastic jug.
 
Heheh, so the wife got train wreck syndrome. Can't look, can't stop looking.

When I got in to work this morning I got to hear about our first rattler of the year. Seems one of the second shift security officers was going out as usual to lock some portable classrooms we have behind the main building and as he was reaching towards one of the handles he suddenly realized that a rattlesnake had climbed along the door and frame joint and had its head laying on the door handle! He quickly backed up from that one. The shift supervisor came out with the snake handler and they, ah, disposed of it.

This complex was built out of San Antonio a little (but it's catching up fast). Each time they built a new building they displaced more snakes and wildlife. So in addition to yer basic 'posum, raccoon, feral cats, feral hogs, and deer, we have rattlesnakes show up on steps or around the area now and then. Security gets the call to remove the offending snake out to the edge of the property to a "safe" location. As many of our officers don't care for snakes, and poisonous in particular, what usually happens is they get the snake out of sight of the delicate and sensitive employees then, ahm, deanimate it. Me, I'd probably take to the undeveloped area and turn it loose - CAREFULLY! Can you believe they didn't even skin it! Then again, most of them probably didn't even have a pocket knife.

Get better, EC!
 
Here are the pics.

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I have a few tiny little holes on the back of my hand as well, but nothing worth posting. These are the main ones.
 
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