Stupid is as stupid does....

[Eversion]

Eversion That's unfortunate. If you can recall did you use a hydrogel or a petroleum ointment?

Started off with neosporin, then petroleum ointment. Kept it under a bandaid during the day and let it air out at night.

I tend to scar whenever anything breaks skin, though.

 

[Alberta Ed]

I lost count of the number of times I cut myself about 60 years ago... I was 12 then. I keep Polysporin on hand.

 

[Mr.Wizard]

Started off with neosporin, then petroleum ointment. Kept it under a bandaid during the day and let it air out at night.

I tend to scar whenever anything breaks skin, though.

I have had better results with a hydrogel, avoiding petroleum ointments including Neosporin entirely. Also if those are old-school bandaids they suck; they let in dirt but somehow don't breathe. During the active oozing phase try tube gauze with a Coban wrap to keep it clean; that's not waterproof so glove up when needed. Later in the healing process Nexcare waterproof bandages can provide a barrier, but use some hydrogel in the middle to keep the developing skin moist.

 

[Hale Storm]

Not my first and definitely not my last. The running joke at my house if I call my wife to my shop is she always asks the same thing first every time.
"A re you bleeding again"?

 

[Quiet]

It's no fun being a knife guy with no "war stories" of minor-moderate knife related injuries anyway
I'm glad it wasn't worse because a missing finger sounds much worse no matter who you are.
I chuckle a little bit at gun & knife shows when I see display cases with band aids next to them.

I've cut myself pretty decent before, twice with a knife and once with a drill bit. Eventually you catch on and learn to think about
"hey man if this thing slips??..." or "once this thing goes through, where's it gonna go??"
You'll find yourself quite a few times attempting a dangerous cut you used to think nothing of not realizing how close to the "edge"
you really were. I'm an advocate of minor to moderate cuts like this every now and again because it makes a much safer knife user in the
long run. Hope you heal well Keep it clean and keep ointment on it

Every year I go to BLADE, I see at least three different instances where someone who was inspecting a knife next to me cuts themselves, usually when closing the knife and they get bit.

 

[91bravo]

I was too lazy to move my truck and drag out the table saw so I decided to score and break 2in off my last fence board to get it to fit in nicely. Managed to slice about 2mm off the top of my pinky, clean. Note to self....use a relatively dull blade for this next time, not one the Lansky kit just made sharp enough to shave with.

Nice! Another battle scar. Chicks dig scars...

 

[afishhunter]

An little known and oft overlooked fact of "life":

You are more likely to get using a dull blade than using a sharp one.

(you have to press harder with the dull blade. When (not "if") the dull blade slips ... you gonna leak mosquito chow. )

 

[BillZee]

Yeah.....and some people think because we collect knives. We could be dangerous to others. My stupid has been cutting myself with a new knife checking it out.
Maybe we need a new thread on first aid for knife cuts.

 

[zzyzzogeton]

I've nicked myself a few dozen times over the last 60 years, but the worst was a table saw to the left thumb and a chain saw to the left shin. Both bled more than a little bit.

"They" say you get wiser as you get older but I still keep doing stupid stuff. It's just that the stupid stuff isn't the SAME stupid stuff everytime.

 

[cnm123]

Nice, Filet of Pinky.