Okay, I'll say Friday the 13th is unlucky...

t1mpani

t1mpani

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Not with respect to the deals Uncle Bill put up, but because I'm temporarily hobbled!

About 4:00 a.m. this morning, my dog was fussing at me to go outside (he's old and often can't make it through the night anymore) so I got up to amble to the back door with him. I'd just finished working on some tomohawks last night, and one was propped up against my dressor, I THOUGHT with the blade facing in. Apparently it rotated though, as I drug the top of three toes across the edge and completely split them open.

They almost wouldn't believe me at the ER that it was a 'hatchet' cut, because it was so clean, but I got seven stitches (three in the worst toe, two in the other two) and now am walking around like Frankenstein's Creature because I can't bend them.

BTW, the cut didn't really hurt much at all, but the stitches were another story. I've had some impressive injuries in my time, but whenever I've gotten stitches, they've always deaded the tissue first. They don't deaden toes or fingers. :(

Yes yes yes I know--don't leave sharp things laying around. I'd like to protest, once again, that when I left it, the cutting edge was facing inward in its little corner. I think I'm only guilty of not tipping the handle at a great enough angle to keep it from shifting. :cool:
 
t1mpani--sorry to hear about your injury. From the sounds of it, you're lucky your toes are still attached:). Hopefully your recovery will be rapid.
--Josh
 
It's just a day, T1mpani. You're still a lucky guy. I'm glad it was clean and no tendons cut. Without infection you'll do fine.



munk
 
Nice to have a place to tell stories like this and not get the answer, "You should stop messing around with those sharp things, it's just dangerous!" :rolleyes:

Anyway, thanks for the well wishes, and I'm sure it'll heal fast. You're quite right, Munk, that tendons would have made this much more serious. The worst toe had its tendon "nicked" according to the nurse, but not badly enough where they're worried about it coming apart. I only have a worst toe, I think, because I realized I was being cut by something and jerked my foot away, turning a fairly straight cut into a longitudinal slice up the last little piggy.

I remember some commedian had a thing about how you often get the worst injuries in the last desperate attempts to prevent them. He was talking about slipping in the shower and stuff, but it seems to apply. :D

Yvsa and I are no relation that I'm aware of, Dan, perhaps just kindred spirits...
 
OUCH!~

I know how it feels. I jumped out of the back of a house down onto a 2" nail sticking up out of a board a couple years ago and it hurt so much it convinced me I never wanted to be stabbed.
 
I guess if you play with sharp things like we do, then you're going to get cut once in awhile. God knows i've split myself open more times than i can remember. Part of the fun is swapping "war stories" about the scars you've gotten:) It's a good thing you didnt damage your tendons. I think Heber and I can contest that a severed tendon is REALLY painful. Good luck and get well soon!
~Jake
 
t1mpani, sorry to hear about your Friday the 13th tale, but it may help some of the rest of us.

I think the E.R. you went to may have been busy or they just didn't want to take the time to "deaden" your lacerations and I hate to be the bearer of this news, buuuttttt, I have been working in an E.R. for 15 years and suture fingers and toes on an almost daily basis and always "deaden" the laceration(s) first.

The last few years the "superglue" solution is used more and more on children and some minor lacerations.

Hopefully you will never have to go back to the E.R., but if you do and it's for a laceration I think I'd ask for some anesesthia or opt for "superglue".

Just my speaking from my experience other areas may vary.

CARman
 
A friend (and fellow forumite) was just nice enough to e-mail me and point out that I'd mispelled "tomahawk." This was a slip of the fingers, not lack of knowledge, I assure you...
:o

CARman--I wish I could say that's nice to hear...they weren't busy I was the only one in there! :grumpy:
 
Hey t1mpani, I just noticed in your profile it says soldier as your occupation. I hope that wasn't an Army E.R. you went to. :o

If it was......then, I know they were slacking and it would be very possible that I may know some of them. I know lot's of people in Meddac E.R's around the country. However, I don't know if that's good or bad now.;)

Watch out for those sharp things so this won't happen again.:eek:

CARman
 
Nay,
I'm actually picking up some classes right now, so all my soldiering is being done in the classroom. Just plain ol' ER. :)
 
friend (and fellow forumite) was just nice enough to e-mail me and point out that I'd mispelled "tomahawk." This was a slip of the fingers, not lack of knowledge, I assure you...
>>>>> T1mpani


Thank God. You had me worried.




munk
 
Originally posted by t1mpani
I've had some impressive injuries in my time, but whenever I've gotten stitches, they've always deaded the tissue first.

They don't deaden toes or fingers.
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When I went to sleep and dropped the heavy as forged Hanuman blade and cut my toe they deadened it at the ER.
But then maybe it's because of my size or looks.:rolleyes: :p ;)

I "think" there was five stitches in it so if there was I'm ahead of you on one toe.;) :D
Sure makes a man feel stupid when he does somethin like that ainnit?:grumpy: :rolleyes: ;)

I'm just glad the Hanuman blade hadn't been totally sharpened or I may not have had a toe, or three or four!!!!:eek:
 
Originally posted by t1mpani
Yes yes yes I know--don't leave sharp things laying around.
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And don't run with skissors;
dancing however is allowed.
 
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