Kukuri Safety, What not to do with a Khukuri, Or how to avoid the ER - Must Read!!!!

Take care of yourself and get well quick.

Thanks for posting your incident. It reminds me of why I have some of the scars that I do. Maybe I'll learn to be a little more careful. I am glad it wasn't worse. That AK can do a number on almost anything that blade comes in contact with.

I think God loves ya man!:)
 
Fortunately, Semper Fi, real pain eats the addiction of pain medicine away. I wouldn't want addiction to impact Yvsa's spiritual or home life, but you gotta ask yourself, if an old man is in excruiciating pain, is it better he function and have a habit or is it better he fall apart?

If it was a young man, with so much left to do... you know what I'm trying to say, there ought to be a logic and a cost assesment to these things.

Drugs have destroyed our society. The War on Drugs seems to make it worse. IMHO

munk
 
Young man, sometimes you come up with some pretty deep $hit. I'm thinking right now that you must be one of the thinkers. I'm not saying that is bad. No Sir, not bad at all.:)
 
Herber,

Glad to hear you were fixable. Get well, then REALLY play up the sympathy routine with all the cuties in your Outdoor Club :D

Heal quick!

Alan
 
Heber, you just tossed your khuk on to a pine wood pile, all bloody coverered in pine pitch!? Somebody go rescue that knife!!

What were you thinking man!?;)

Glad your damage was repairable.

Now, somebody get me a case of rem-oil on an I.V. stat! We've got a khuk comming in with unknown damage!! Where's the new buffing wheel I ordered from supply. Come on people! Let's move!! 600 grit paper? Are you trying to make this worse? Get me the 1500 grit and get out of my way!!



Take care Heber...maybe re-hab wont be too bad.
 
OUCH!!!!

Sorry to hear that you got hurt Heber:(

Hope you get well soon and your back to full power chopping in no time!:)
 
Thanks for the support. You guys are great.:)

Sorry bout the lack of picks. I tried to get the docs to take some but nobody had a camera. Plus they looked at me funny when I asked. hehehe

The 325 mgs is aceteminephen or plain old Tylenol
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This is Percocet 7.5/325mg and the documentation on it says it's "aceteminephen-oxycodone" what ever Oxycodone is. BTW It only takes the edge off enough so I can funtion (still lots of pain but managable) and sleep if need be. Hate taking pills but these help a little so I do take em. I'll be glad when I'm off the stuff.

You guys really crack me up:) Thanks!:D Twas hoping I'd make it into the safety thread, why else you think I did it. . Just teasing.:p
 
Talk about the blood running cold... I've been out all day chopping up branchwood with the 25" sirupati; and yes, I was holding the branch with my left hand and swinging that very sharp, exquisitely efficient cutting tool with my right.

There but for the grace of God go I. And I was on my own, in the middle of the woods. If I'd had the same sort of accident as Heber did, even if I'd been able to get up the steep hill to where I left my 'phone in the jeep, it'd still have been at least half an hour before the medics arrived. And I don't know jack about first aid.

Many thanks for posting, and giving us all food for thought. Your misfortune might just end up saving a life or two.
 
Originally posted by Semper Fi
munk

Yep, oxycontin is BIG in east Kentucky. Lots of people and doc's have gone to jail over that one. Highly addictive.

Yvsa, BE CAREFUL with that stuff!

Semp --
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Semp there is no drug that's addictive for chronic pain users if they follow instructions the doc gives them.
The reason Oxycontin is being abused is that it comes in the form of time release tablets. If you crush them it gives the user a rush, some people mix it and main line it, and that's all that I know from reading the paper and watching the news.
Oxycontin is a Godsend to people like me. If I didn't have the chronic pain I would be off the meds in a flash as the side effects are really bad.
Constipation and the daily use of laxitives is a must if you don't wnat to have to go to the ER and have it dug out. I can't imagine that, but Barb's brother who died from cancer mentioned having to have that done a couple of times.:eek:
The other side effects are definitely life changing and if you don't have a sense of humor or really know what's really important in life then you're gonna wind up on even more meds for depression.
It's a viscious cycle!!!!
I've been on the Oxycontin for maybe 5 years now with only one increase in dosage. There's several more steps until I hit pure morphine which I'm glad of.
My Neurosurgeaon offered to put a morphine pump in but I refused although I still wonder if I did the right thing as sometimes, much of the time the pain leaves me unable to do anything I would like to do.

Munk the Percosets is in milligrams. The 5 mgs / 325 mgs got to where they just weren't doing the job. The 10 mgs / 325 mgs do a little better, but I'm still talking with the doc.
There's been some opportunities that offered me that I would dearly love to pursue and will if the docs can keep me going pain wise.
The weekly injections of 0.08 cc's of Methotrexate are much worese potentially on my liver than plain old 325 mgs of Tylenol.;)

If Marijuana were legal I would be pain free!!!! The US's war on drugs is Not!!!! It's war on the common man and the prisons are full of non violent offenders.
One of these days if it gets bad enough I may ignore the drug laws or move to a state like Arizona where you can get medical Marijuana.
Being a chronic pain sufferer really sux due to the damned laws.
Thankfully the view is changing that people with chronic pain do not get addicted.
When one of us takes a med that would be an upper or downer for someone else we just experience pain relief.
It's frustrating as hell to say the least!!!!:grumpy:
 
Yvsa, sorry to hear of you pain !!

Doesn't Marijuana have side effects too ?? Not against it just want to know !!

B

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Herber,

It hurts just reading about it. I am glad to see you are on the mend. It could have been much worse. At least now you will have a nice built in conversation item. BTW, you should retrive that knife and frame it. Your grandkids are going to want to see it someday.

Get well.

n2s
 
Brendan, it's more harmful to the lungs than tobacco, but I figure few smoke enough to worry about that. It does have some long term memory implications, but the results are still clouded (ha!) because, among other things, it is damn hard to find a pot smoker who has not done other things.

It is a remarkably benign drug compared to alcohol. Sound like I'm a booster? Not really. Any drug will allow one to depart participation in family and life, and any cycle of dependance has consequences. I gave up this stuff a few years after college, which I can even dimly recall upon occasion.

Yvsa, if pot really does that much pain modification for you, then it is madness this society is too screwed up to allow its use.
The reason I understand the war on drugs is doomed and foolish is because I lived through it. Families stop addiction. Governments can't. People grow or die. Governments spend money and sink themselves into organized crime.

It is unnatural not to allow individuals the exercise of free will. Men have always died foolishly. Why would we want it any other way?
They that die dumb are the statistical opposite of the group on the other end of the bell curve; those that live well.
I probably sound like a loon. Rant over, as Rusty would say.


munk
 
I tend to think that the effects of marijuana aren't as bad as alcohol. That may be because it's harder to consume mass quantities of marijuana than alcohol. We might start seeing more severe effects of pot use if people started smoking a carton a week.

That said, I think one of the chief problems with pot is that it exposes people to the illegal drug culture. It shows people the road to a lots of harder stuff. Were it legalized, that would not be the case.

With respect to relieving pain, I think the government is squemish about admitting that marijuana has any positive benefits. They need to sit down and do a major double-blind study to figure out if it works or not. Even cocaine is prescribed for pain on a limited basis.
 
I used to wonder if we could cut our losses by legalization. There is no way pot will ever equal alcohol in negative effects. Alcohol is a solvent. It is a CNS depressant. It causes organic brain damage. withdrawal in severe cases is a medical emergency.
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getting back to Khuks and injury; the one time I cut myself lightly on a khuk is was a new 15" AK blem I too tossed it down on the ground.

munk
 
Out of 100,000 this is one of the top ten most important posts and I'm not sure I'd have the guts to make it but Heber did and many thanks to him for that. Might save somebody down the line a nasty wound. Guns shoot, knives cut, tools especially power tools can turn on you in a second. My flooring guy tried to drive a screw thru his finger today.

Safety first.
 
Originally posted by Bill Martino ....... My flooring guy tried to drive a screw thru his finger today.
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A couple of years ago our roofer told me he had been on a roof alone
and managed to drive a nail through his kneecap with an air nailer.
No one to hear him yell and no tools to pull it out.
Couldn't bend his leg.
After a couple of hours he managed to work it out with his fingers
and get down off the roof.

Never work alone!
Never work alone!
Never work alone!

I almost always work alone (bad on me)
but I at least try to have a phone in ready reach if it's needed.
Try to have an escape plan for the unexpected.
 
Originally posted by Yvsa
Semp there is no drug that's addictive for chronic pain users if they follow instructions the doc gives them......
...If Marijuana were legal I would be pain free!!!!
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Yvsa
I didn't mean to imply you shouldn't take oxycontin. Only just to be careful with it. In your case it is doing what it was designed to do and that is good. It is a powerful pain killer when used properly.

As far as marijuana, I don't know how it would affect your pain. Only you know that. I did see heavy users in Vietnam go through personality changes. They weren't the same guys I knew in the US. When I say heavy I mean they smoked till they passed out. Every night possible. As for me, I just got drunk at every opportunity. My way of coping I guess.
 
Heber:

I'm sorry to read about your injury. I'm also glad that it wasn't more serious.

Wishing you back into action soon,

S.
 
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