Unkind cut

John Watson

John Watson

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Well I haven't done this for quite a while but today I managed to cut my left index finger badly enough to require eight stitches. Went to the New Orleans boat show and they put one of those wrist bands on you in case you want to come and go. When we left I took out my new Benchmade Accent and using my left hand attempted to cut the band from my right wrist. I have no idea how I managed to cut the left index finger with the knife in my left hand but I did. I thought I would just put a few butterfly bandages on it and call it fixed but I had a problem stopping it from bleeding. The worst part wasn't the cut, it was waiting the three hours in the emergency room to get it stitched.

Hope your day went better than mine. I will stop now, have any idea how hard it is to write with a numb bandaged finger?


John
 
Oooh..
I am sorry man I cut my fonger too and it is just so much pain I could stand it and later it starts to tickle but you cant scratch...

It is some crazy stuff..
 
geesh! must be a cursed day I cut my left middle finger today while sharpining my tomahawk. cut it good too. no doc though just a lot of gauz and swearing !
well good luck and sorry to here about your injuries. dan
 
Take care of those wounds. Complications suck. Change your dressings often. I cut my finger two weeks ago. A little neosporin and a lot of bandages fixxed it up fairly quickly.
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~Mitch
 
I must be playing with my knives wrong, cause the only times I seem to cut myself is when I'm cooking, and let my attention wander. I've never had anything more than nicks and scrapes with my carry knives. I've only put together one knife from a kit, and although I got a number of knuckel busters, I didn't cut myself.
But, just last week, slicing some cheese for a sandwich... I got distracted, did something stupid, and, well, I didn't go in for stitches, but I probably should have.
Dave (who considers himself VERY fortunate, and is knocking on wood right now!)


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Optimists are rarely pleasantly surprised.
 
I haven't cut myself in long time - I am trying to be as careful with my knives as I am with my guns and always treat then as if they were loaded...

Hope this post won't cost me a visit to the ER...
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Take good care of your cuts guys - being a hero and macho is a waste of good fingers and we only have like 9-10 of them working to begin with...

That is, if you are not familiar with the weaving technique used in some African tribes - these guys can hold things with their leg fingers better then some of us will ever be with our hands..
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Ouch, well hope you liked the boat show.

I was in an auto accident a few years ago and was shaken up but not badly hurt minor cuts and bruises. I was taken to the emergency room. Its triage (sp?) there. Worse hurt gets seen first. Three hours is not to bad. Was it Charity?

Another NOLA knife nut.

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Roger Blake
 
Hi beam,


Yea did enjoy the boat show except for having a severe lack of funds sufficient enough to buy anything. No, not Charity. Waited to go to Slidell Memorial. I thought about not getting it stitched but where the cut was located it would never heal. It was a vee shaped cut that went fairly deep and the doc said that those are very prone to infecton.

Glad to hear from another NOLA knife nut. Have you gone to the jewelery store just past Bonnibel on Veterans blvd? They have an extensive selection of fixed and folders.

John
 
I wonder if you would have been better off going to an after hours urgent care clinic rather than a full fledged emergency room. As long as you didn't cut tendons or nerves a clinic might have been just as good, faster, and cheaper.
 
I'm lucky, I get cut a lot but always minor ones. The side of my index finger got caught in a serration from a Smith and Wesson Black-T coated SWAT when I was closing it (I closed it on my finger). That was about three days ago. Yesterday I was practicing with my balisong and cut my right hand ring finger. I put a band-aid on it and it was fine, though minorly annoying. Today I was practicing with my balisong again, and I cut the same finger again in almost the exact spot (seven millimeter distance between the two cuts). It would have been about seven cuts on that finger, but the band-aid from the second cut took the cuts for me. I must be messing up somewhere consistently. I'm feeling to lazy to fix any typo's if I made any... band-aid's are hard to type with.

---Chang the Asian Janitorial Apparatus
 
Originally posted by John Watson:
Hi beam,

Glad to hear from another NOLA knife nut. Have you gone to the jewelery store just past Bonnibel on Veterans blvd? They have an extensive selection of fixed and folders.

John
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I have got a few things there. Its a great store alas, though really the only store I know of on tne NO side of the lake not counting the Remington store at the River Mall. Do you know of any others?



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Roger Blake
 
Hey John, Beam, where y'at. John, next time hit Hotel Dieu in NOLA. As for good deals on knives, try Al Tinney at American Arms in Chalmette. I dealt with him for years when I lived there and he's a square dealer.
Le bon ton roulette!

Jake
 
Originally posted by Jake Evans:
Hey John, Beam, where y'at. John, next time hit Hotel Dieu in NOLA. As for good deals on knives, try Al Tinney at American Arms in Chalmette. I dealt with him for years when I lived there and he's a square dealer.
Le bon ton roulette!

Jake
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All right. Isn't the forum great? Yea we all yats here.




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Roger Blake
 
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