(NSFW) Knife Safety Awareness! I Got Bit..

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!
 
The mark of a true knife nut is taking pics of cuts before any thought of treatment. :D

Hope you heal fast.
 
It was probably less embarrassing than my cut on the inside most distal knuckle of my right index finger. I was working behind the counter at my gun-shop job, showing someone a buck vantage pro. I was talking about how the flipper acts as a great finger stop, and my brain decided it was a good idea to demonstrate. Of course, my finger bumped the choil and went right on by to the blade, slicing me heartily and making me look like quite the fool to the customer.

I rolled up a sheet of paper towell and wrapped it tight around the finger, which had started bleeding at a pretty good rate...and the customer asked to see another knife. It took about 10 minutes of talking while applying pressure to the cut and checking the customer out with a purchased mini-grip before they left and I was free to attempt a better bandage solution....nope, superglue didn't work because it was bleeding too much. It did make a nice mess of red superglue dried everywhere though.
 
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