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IT happens!
I threw a zip tie around the gas pump handle at gomart at the butt crack of dawn one morning, so I could walk in and get a cup of coffee while I filled my truck up. Came back out and went to cut it off, my knife slipped and whacked myself on top of my thumb on my opposite hand. Cut it to the bone. Wrapped it in a rag and went to work first, then to the hospital. ER doc said he could throw about 3 stitches in it quick without numbing it. He seemed to think that numbing it would hurt about as bad as the stitches. He asked if I thought I could handle it. I told him let's try one and go from there. I got three, but that s**t hurt. Stitches in the hand always hurt, so far I have had about 50. Most from an accident when I was younger that involved a glass window, and took most of the top of my hand off. They had to suture the tendons back together so I could still move my fingers too.
Accidents happen, chalk it up to experience. One thing that I can recommend is to remove the stitches yourself! I cannot tell you how many times I paid a doctor to do a fine job of stitching me up, only to have a nurse with a pair of those blunt scissors to open the cut up as bad as it was to begin with! I have a scar on my arm a 1/2" wide from one such instance. It was a clean cut, sewed up nice and after she gaped it right back open, she threw some steri-strips on it and sent me packing. If that was what I wanted I never would have paid a doctor to sew it up!
I threw a zip tie around the gas pump handle at gomart at the butt crack of dawn one morning, so I could walk in and get a cup of coffee while I filled my truck up. Came back out and went to cut it off, my knife slipped and whacked myself on top of my thumb on my opposite hand. Cut it to the bone. Wrapped it in a rag and went to work first, then to the hospital. ER doc said he could throw about 3 stitches in it quick without numbing it. He seemed to think that numbing it would hurt about as bad as the stitches. He asked if I thought I could handle it. I told him let's try one and go from there. I got three, but that s**t hurt. Stitches in the hand always hurt, so far I have had about 50. Most from an accident when I was younger that involved a glass window, and took most of the top of my hand off. They had to suture the tendons back together so I could still move my fingers too.
Accidents happen, chalk it up to experience. One thing that I can recommend is to remove the stitches yourself! I cannot tell you how many times I paid a doctor to do a fine job of stitching me up, only to have a nurse with a pair of those blunt scissors to open the cut up as bad as it was to begin with! I have a scar on my arm a 1/2" wide from one such instance. It was a clean cut, sewed up nice and after she gaped it right back open, she threw some steri-strips on it and sent me packing. If that was what I wanted I never would have paid a doctor to sew it up!
