Got bit. I HATE That!

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J. MacDonald

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It doesn't happen often, but it happened tonight. I got bit. To make matters worse, I always keep my knives as sharp as I can. It was only on the right thumb and won't require stitches or an ER visit, but it did bleed pretty well and hurts a bit. I was using my old faithful Microtech Socom Elite to break down some boxes and somehow slipped while closing it one handed. The thumb tip slid along the blade. Ooops. No pain at first, just a sharp line of blood.

With enough tape and band aids on it, hopefully it will close up in a couple days.

John
 
I was playing with my SnG when I first got it, rubbing my thumb along the back of the blade. Not really paying attention, I turned it edge up, and ran my thumb along -- ow! Bandaids, polysporin, two days. Itched for a week. :rolleyes:
 
My most embarassing cut was last Christmas. I was opening some presents for my Grandson (shrink wrapped stuff) and cut my self when my Daughter in law was there. Now she is a big time sheeple so all I could do was try to hide it, use a lot of direct pressure and pretend that I had to go to the bathroom till I got the bleeding stopped.
 
My most embarassing moment was several weeks ago. I was in the office at work steeling my knife on the nice steel from the deli. It was a little busy and I was paying more attention to what was going on to see if I needed to go out an open my register. Well, the knife skipped off the steel and right into the knuckle of my left pointer. It didn't hurt, but I felt the blood instantly run down my arm. This is the most blood I've ever seen... enough that I could hear it dripping on the floor.

My first instinct was to get a bandaid. So I go to the first aid kit, leaking life juice as I'm going and get a tiny-ass little bandaid. By this time there was so much blood that it wouldn't stick.

I run into to the deli to get two rags, a clean one to hold on my finger and a dirty one for the floor. So I clean up the blood on the floor and the customer service manager comes in. He's as much of a knife nut as I am and all he could say was "uh... Ben?" "Yeah, I cut myself." So I go to the bathroom. Get it kinda cleaned up and wrapped.

It bled for a good hour. The cut wasn't big enough to need stitches, I just tapped a vein. I'm actually very lucky I didn't cut a tendon.

I heal very fast, so it was healed in a day or two, but it left a hell of a bruise. Thinking about it right now is making it hurt a little... left a scar.

I've handled knives all my life... just goes to show that even a skilled operator makes mistakes.

Ben
 
Once I sliced the tip of my finger off (just skin) while opening a package and went to the ned center for cleanup and treatment. Had a concert that night (concert snare :rolleyes: ). Didn't miss it.

That was my worst for a while.

Last week I bought a balisong...
 
My wife was the victim of my eternal quest to keep our kitchen cutlery honed as close to the molecular level as possible. Very freakish accident.

She was peeling something in her bare feet when she dropped the knife. Instinctively she jumped to avoid the knife hitting her, but her Guardian Angel was apparently on break. The knife came down with the edge up just as her foot came down on it ....."butterflied" her big toe like a shrimp.

At the ER while they were soaking it and making sure it was all cleaned before suturing, the Doc mentioned that this was an unbelievable surgical cut and would heal beautifully. He and I then proceeded to get into an in depth discussion about knives and sharpening theories. My wife finally brought us back to reality with some smartass remark about "anyone ever gonna sew up her toe?"

A one in a million accident.
 
Showing my wife how to close her new Dodo I snagged my right ring finger as the blade dropped. Didn't start to bleed right away so I was able to gracefully leave the room to bandage up without her knowing what I did. Of course as I left I said, over my shoulder, "be careful now, those things are sharp". :D
 
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