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One more hint. Do not practice bare footed. Only one cut but that was enough. Now its no shoes, no flipping.
 
Well I stabed myself in my thigh once pretty damn deep and wide (since it cut after the stab), didn't clot up for a week. Shoulda gotten stitches on that one but I had just had (read as took out myself)6 stitches out two days before from another worse knife incident.
 
I've been very lucky so far, and only gotten rather minor cuts that have healed pretty quickly. And navajo, I also found out about the barefoot thing from experience! Wow! I was lucky that the handle hit my toe and not the blade, but it still hurt like hell! That SS was heavy!
 
Majparadox. Congratulations on the right of passage. :D You have just increased your ability to not get cut. Good ol' brain. Like touchin' a hot stove when you're 2... you may have been told you'd get burned... but now you know it!

And I agree with wearing shoes. My worst scar is on the top of my right foot. Followed by the one on my right thigh (I'm actually wearing the pants with the hole in them right now. :D )

Have fun Majparadox... Try to keep most of them fingers. :)
 
I'm so glad I don't have "war stories" like some of you do (knock knock). I heard a good trick to heal clean cuts is to put super glue on them. I guess it holds your skin together pretty well. Has anyone tried this? Someone mentioned nu skin a while back too. maybe on a thread a year ago or something. I hear that works too.

But so far, so good on the cuts deal.
 
Cyanoacrylate can work but should not be used on deep cuts. It interferes with the healing process. They do make medical grade superglue but it is an absorbable version and is usually used only internally on soft tissue. Things like livers and spleans. I hope I dont ever need anything like that glued back together due to a balli :). U.S. Patent No. 5,350,798 for those of you who want to know more.
 
super glue can't be good....its a chemical...itsn't it toxic???
 
No superglue for me, I use suture tape. Very strong adhesive for binding, that wears out in 3 or 4 days. Keeps the wound closed better than compression and bandaids alone. No stitches going in, and to pull out later. Good thing my mother is a nurse and can me get a regular supply, but can be found in your better medical supply stores.
 
Actually, super-glue was designed as a liquid form of sutures but unfortanatly surgeons had the problem of it causing them to stick to the wound so it never got used out of the prototype stage really. But I've used it a couple of times and my little brother uses it alot.
 
Cyanoacrylate is very common now. Almost all the Cyanoacrylate forms though used internally are assorable and a far cry from basic super glue. It is now FDA approved and used regularly. The downside is that it is more expensive than standard silk stutures.
 
I use a product called Liquid Skin. Available at the pharmacy next to the band-aids and Neosporin. Had a job about ten years ago that seemed to keep about a dollar's worth of meat knocked off the fingers and hands on a regular basis. Packed it with me every where I went. "Gash and splash"; back to work. A tetanus (sp?) shot might be the order of the day if you get a really bad bite.
 
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