Just stabbed myself

[Wibbl]

Was scraping paint from a palet with my penknife... blade went into my thumb

 

[ArkAngel]

Welcome to the club....

Lessons will be learnt from this, then forgotten and then more scars will appear on your hands.

These things happen...just remember


If the blade comes out the other side.....stop pushing

 

[Wibbl]

Nah it flicked out the same side spraying blood all the way up my thumb

All sorted now.. TCP + plaster

 

[huntersforge]

I remember my first serious cut .
I went to pin a paper target to a tree with my non locking pocket knife and the blade folded right onto 3 of my fingers ,all needed stitched .
Didnt I feel like a prize
Never did that again.

 

[sam_acw]

New Swiss army knife in July - what did I learn?

• New SAKs shut fairly quickly
• bandaging the big cut on your finger after finding out point 1 is difficult with only 1 hand
• half a year later a good knife will still have left quite an obvious scar

 

[Dougster]

Most people learn! If you look closely, there's one, just crossing the other!

I'm sure that reflects me badly.

The second was OK, the first required 12 butterflies - six more after it bled off the first 6!

 

[bent-stick]

Most of the bows I make have a bit of blood in them somewhere

I can count 8 visible scars on my left hand...I thought I'd share 2.

 

[John Fenna]

One, two ,three, four, five ,six seven ,eight........more scars on my left hand than I can count! You would think that a grown man would learn!
I have learned that masking tape makes a good temp dressing so that you can carry on imediately and not get blood all over you project, pain is all in the mind - if you realy want to get on with a carving a cut does NOT hurt - and yes you feel a ************* everytime you end up seeing your own blood drawn by your own stupidity!
Nearly 50 and still learning!
John

 

[Wibbl]

Great... the limph (sp?) nodes in my armpit have swolen slightly meaning its probally infected >: (

 

[jojo]

Scratched myself on my hand once some years ago, not much of a scratch but It got infected and the infection started going up my arm following a nerve path. When I finally decided to see a quack it was nearly at my armpit, he put me straight on a big dose of antibiotic and said I was lucky, it would have got much worse if I had waited any longer. Better see a doctor!

 

[Wibbl]

I'll eat lots of garlic ^^ a very good herb for this sort of thing.

 

[xylaria]

I'll eat lots of garlic ^^ a very good herb for this sort of thing.

Tea tree oil will kill anything. I use it all the time to avoid seeing a quack. But even I admit sometimes I need see one.

Had really close near miss with a dremmel. I had just changed the sanding bit and hadn't screwed the top in properly. Started sanding at full speed and it comes off. Luckly it flew off peirced through a glass bottle and then through a fence. It left bullet size holes in both. I had three children standing behind me watching. Sometimes you don't know the danger until it hits you.

 

[Joethefish]

Haha made me giggle.. must admit ive got some crackers.. usually from trying to fix the landy.. but never stabbed myself! (someone else had a go once.. thats not a nice scar.. or experiance!) My best is snapping a 13mm spanner on a manifold bolt and promptly slitting my wrist on it... arterial bleeds on your mums 1st floor windows dont go down well!
Joe

 

[Greywolf]

I'll eat lots of garlic ^^ a very good herb for this sort of thing.

Hi Wibbl, It isn't Greywolf, it's his wife who can't remember her login details LOL.

Try soaking in salt water. Put plenty of salt in.
Then dry thoroughly and cover with honey, the firm stuff is better then dress the wound.
The salt will help kill of any infecting and the honey draws it out.

I swear by this remedy

In fact it's helped where medical science couldn't....my nanna had a manky toe that they'd thrown all sorts at, including antibiotics, which wouldn't clear up, yet after a few days of this it had healed

Greywolfs wifie LOL x

 

[Wibbl]

Cheers I'll give this a try right now.

 

[Greywolf]

Let us know how you get on

 

[bent-stick]

Get it looked as soon as if there's any posibility of infection.

And make sure your tetanus is up to date.

 

[torjusg]

Managed to slip the blade through the fingers once. Cut three fingers quite deep. Sewed the wounds up myself, but the it wasn't done properly so I had to go to the doctor to have it restitched.

The doctor had never had someone sew himself up before, let alone with woolen thread.

 

[Wibbl]

ROLFLMAO torjusg!

 

[Carcajou Garou]

While holding a piece of metal in my left hand and instructing my son not to do this, I drilled (actualy screwed in) a 1/4 drill bit through the joint of my left thumb. Now came the hard part, I told my son to hit the reverse switch and proceeded to un-screw the drill bit out of the thumb joint. The good part was that that thumb joint had been stiff because it had calcified after a previous break and the drill neatly removed enough material that I was able to bend it again, to a degree :yo: