Knife Negligence (Lesson Learned)

OP glad you made the comment about treating your knives like your guns. I went out and bought a pelican case style lockbox for my knives (guns are in a safe. Key is on my Keychain and keys are hung on a wall at my eye level. Whatever knife I carry that day goes in a little shelf we have built into the wall that is also about shoulder height to me.

All the don't touch that's in the world is not gonna stop a kid from touching things . We gotta get creative with our things.
 
He'll be OK & he learned from it. It isn't your fault, so don't beat yourself up over it. If that's the worst injury he has growing up, then he's one lucky boy.

I can't count the number of stitches I had as a kid, but luckily the broken bones were confined to fingers & toes. My son was the same. Some of us are just slow learners, but when you learn the hard way, it stays with you.
 
Mabey when he is a little older it can be his first knife. Good thing he didn't hit any big tubes hitting an artery turns a bad cut into a scary situation really quick this information comes from experience.
 
Thanks for all the good comments guys.

I wanted to post this here so everybody could get an idea of how quickly things can take a wrong a turn.

Today my boy's butt is healing up just fine. He wont sit on it though because he has a bruise the size of a golf ball.

Its a little comical because he walks around with his butt poked out like an old man. :p

Im glad we can all laugh about it.
 
At three my daughter grabbed my SNG that I'd just set on the table and managed to both open it and slice her middle finger pretty decently in a instant.

It was a good lesson for both of us that day LOL!

I don't leave stuff laying around and she asks before grabbing things. :thumbup:
 
Glad your son is OK. Don't feel bad, I see at least one of these type of injuries every shift in the ER. Puncture wounds that deep are always gushers. Personally, I would've put some super glue (gel) on it, but that's my SOP. No tetanus shot or his he up to date?
 
HST said:
Glad your son is OK. Don't feel bad, I see at least one of these type of injuries every shift in the ER. Puncture wounds that deep are always gushers. Personally, I would've put some super glue (gel) on it, but that's my SOP. No tetanus shot or his he up to date?
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Hes up to date on the shots. That was my first thought when I seen what knife got him.
 
heefageLA said:
Thanks for all the good comments guys.

I wanted to post this here so everybody could get an idea of how quickly things can take a wrong a turn.

Today my boy's butt is healing up just fine. He wont sit on it though because he has a bruise the size of a golf ball.

Its a little comical because he walks around with his butt poked out like an old man. :p

Im glad we can all laugh about it.
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Glad he's healing. Hey this is a memory yall can tease him about for the rest of his life !

Crazy how tough little kids are.
 
I have a 6 and nearly 11 year old.

I've had a close call with the 6 year old. When he was a bit younger, he wanted a knife. I bought one for my then 8 year old, and a smaller one for the 3 year old. (Opinels).

I took the edge and point off the younger boys with my grinder and stones.

About 2 years later, we were out breaking down cardboard boxes for trash pick up. My younger wanted to "help".

I told him to go get his knife off the book shelf.

Instead he went and got one of my convexed, shaving sharp, needle pointed larger Opinels from my dresser.

He ran down the stairs, through the garage and down the driveway to us. With a shaving sharp Opinel in his hand open.

No cuts, but it was scary. I showed him how that knife could remove a finger, and or stab him. We talked about not walking around with an open knife.

Both the older, and now the younger have cut them selves on sharp kitchen knives.

The younger boy hid it from us, and tried to stop the bleeding because he thought he would get in trouble. When he finally approached me, I gave him a high five. He went and told my wife he cut him self like a man.......



I remember when I cut my self pretty good with my dad's lock back. I hid it from the parents, until I could blame it on a different accident.
 
Bigfattyt said:
I have a 6 and nearly 11 year old.

I've had a close call with the 6 year old. When he was a bit younger, he wanted a knife. I bought one for my then 8 year old, and a smaller one for the 3 year old. (Opinels).

I took the edge and point off the younger boys with my grinder and stones.

About 2 years later, we were out breaking down cardboard boxes for trash pick up. My younger wanted to "help".

I told him to go get his knife off the book shelf.

Instead he went and got one of my convexed, shaving sharp, needle pointed larger Opinels from my dresser.

He ran down the stairs, through the garage and down the driveway to us. With a shaving sharp Opinel in his hand open.

No cuts, but it was scary. I showed him how that knife could remove a finger, and or stab him. We talked about not walking around with an open knife.

Both the older, and now the younger have cut them selves on sharp kitchen knives.

The younger boy hid it from us, and tried to stop the bleeding because he thought he would get in trouble. When he finally approached me, I gave him a high five. He went and told my wife he cut him self like a man.......



I remember when I cut my self pretty good with my dad's lock back. I hid it from the parents, until I could blame it on a different accident.
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Lol many a times my throbbing rear end took away the pain from a cut finger ..
 
My older brother lives a few houses down. His kid, when he was three, got his hunting sheath knife out, and shredded the bench and seat on his new home gym.


When I was young, I drilled 1 inch holes in a hardwood floor, nailed nails into cracks in the concrete in the basement. Took a meat tenderizer mallet to the wood furniture and marked it all up. Too many bad things to count. I feel, so far, my kids have not been too ruinous.


My grandfather stabbed my grandmother in the but with a filet knife, while goofing off! I'd hate to have to explain that to an er Dr nowadays!

He was chasing her around pretending he was going to poke her in the butt. She eventually stopped runnig, and he ran into her from behind.

My dad and his siblings still laugh when telling that story.
 
Glad things weren't worse than they were. Hope he heals properly in the "end". ;)

I've tried to teach my kids about dangers and respect. But I've found it's just easier to teach by example. So now I just let my kids see me cut myself and bleed on a regular basis. They are very careful kids now. :D
 
Kids. If they're at all mischievous, they'll find something to get into and there ain't just a whole lot you can do to prevent it.

When my son was tall enough to open the utensil drawer in the kitchen, he got a butter knife because he had something he wanted to cut. My wife and I were in different parts of the house when we heard this awful scream. He had ripped open his index finger and blood was everywhere. Took him to the ER (this was New Years Eve, btw) and he had to have 4 stitches. He lived.
 
Now you shouldn't have to tell him not to play with knives. You can leave them everywhere now. Unless he's really dumb for his age he's not gonna do that again. My mom rarely ever said "don't do that you'll hurt yourself" I think I learned much better from finding out on my own what hurts and what doesn't


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brownshoe said:
At 3 you can't let them out of your sight. It's a pain in the ass (:))to have to watchem all the time, but mistakes happen to everyone, don't torture yourself, be happy it wasn't worse.
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^ Exactly!

EChoil said:
Sorry to hear about that. Best wishes to your son on a full recovery.
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full flat grind said:
Glad the kid is okay :thumbup:
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^ I'm also glad that your son is ok, & that you all learned one of those "valuable lessons" that we know could always have been a lot worse.

HST said:
Glad your son is OK. Don't feel bad, I see at least one of these type of injuries every shift in the ER. Puncture wounds that deep are always gushers. Personally, I would've put some super glue (gel) on it, but that's my SOP. No tetanus shot or his he up to date?
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^ Between carpentry, kayak surfing, & mountain biking; super glue, & tape, has saved me quite a bit of $$$, & ER visits. :thumbup: Unfortunately, not all of my cuts have been able to be glued.

Growing up out in the country on a ranch, I was the accident prone kid in my family...

Now as an adult, it's seems like nothing has changed. My Werner carbon fiber blade (which keeps me connected to my surf kayak via a paddle leash), gashed open my hand & thumb last spring. I was close to a 1/4 mile out in powerful double overhead South Swell surf...there was a lot of blood dripping into the Pacific Ocean...my kayak ended up in the beach- that was the longest swim of my life.

A couple of months later, kayaking the rivers up in North Central Idaho kayaking, with all those sharp river rocks- my foot learned what mattress stitches are.

Move ahead to 3 weeks ago, slammed down off the bottom, severe concussion, pinched nerve in my neck...

And just this last Friday- I gashed up my other thumb out surfing (with that same sharp CF paddle)...another after hours trip to the VA ER, a few more stitches later, & I'm GTG again...

Some kid's never grow up! :cool:

Accidents, happen to the best of us, especially those who get out & live life! :thumbup:
 
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blade dude said:
Now you shouldn't have to tell him not to play with knives. You can leave them everywhere now. Unless he's really dumb for his age he's not gonna do that again. My mom rarely ever said "don't do that you'll hurt yourself" I think I learned much better from finding out on my own what hurts and what doesn't
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When I was two years old, my mother tells me, she stood over me in the kitchen saying "Don't touch that" repeatedly before I touched the hot oven with my bare hand. Only then did I get the message.

So yeah, what pretty much everyone else said. Not your fault, every kid has (and should have) that moment eventually, and be glad it was just a poke in the butt.
 
Sometimes we learn by mistakes.. you did and they did. You can't protect everyone from everything, that's just reality. Like Blues Bender said, think back to all the stuff you did as a kid, and you are still here. You think your parents shared that stuff with people? No, they kept their dirty laundry in house, as it should be kept. On the flip side, glad everyone is OK.
 
Hawk45 said:
Sometimes we learn by mistakes.. you did and they did. You can't protect everyone from everything, that's just reality. Like Blues Bender said, think back to all the stuff you did as a kid, and you are still here. You think your parents shared that stuff with people? No, they kept their dirty laundry in house, as it should be kept. On the flip side, glad everyone is OK.
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Not trying to troll or be rude here. Just understand your meaning.

Are you saying im wrong for posting this experience? I just wanted other like minded folks to be aware. More aware than I was to how quickly things can go bad just by becoming too comfortable with their knives.

No dirty laundry is being aired here. Only a life lesson shared between a boy and his dad about a knife, on a knife forum.
 
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