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No. No it wasn’t.

I usually brush off these type of things, wrap it with a rag and go about my day, maybe super glue it. I got 8 stitches for this one

 

Wow, dodged a bullet, I thought you scratched your truck with the hedge clipper

 

Ha!

much rather clip my finger than the truck!

 

Yikes! Hopefully you can still count to 10.

 

About 9 1/4 but wife still doesn’t complain

 

I KNEW that one was coming, they are my house shoes, and at the time all I could put on.

I had to wait 30 minutes for my wife to get off a call with a client before taking me in.



edit: but I was comfy

 

Who falls in the 100% path?
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Just south of me in central TX

 

Solid! Stiches or paper towels and duct tape?

 

You know what I haven't seen forever... fire flys

 

8 stitches



Having my first alcohol drink in 8 days due to antibiotics.

I know people drink while taking them, just did a stupid google search and said not to. Just want to heal as quickly as I can. Half of my feeling in my finger tip is gone and that will probably take months / years to get back if ever? I still have numb spots in my knee from surgery in 2007 so who knows

 

That sucks... tons of nerves in the hand too. So, it's never completely numb when they get to working on it; plus the damn shots in the hand to make it not hurt, hurt

You Sir, have earned yourself a solid libation

 

They are still around. Don’t be too sad

 

When I was a kid we visited my step grandparents in Chicago. Was the 1st time I saw fire flies, and there was a ton of them. We get them where I live, but no where near as many.

 

Yeah, I severed a tendon that runs on the side of my finger.

they gave me the numb shot but I still felt 2 stitches go in and out

 

The blue stitching they used does match the blue stitching in your socks though...

 

Is your tetanus current? My brother n law shot himself in the finger with a nail gun, and a week later he went on heavy antibiotics due to a blood infection.

Oh...and my buddy ran his hand through a table saw and they reconnected his tendons, and he has most of the use of his fingers.

 

I'm not sure why, but I've always found it funny that everyone around you is always, 'Quick we need to get you to the ER'; dudes are always, 'hang on, I need you to take a picture of this first'

 

Those bastards! I didn’t even realize it!

last time they try to swindle me!

 

Roughly at the 9 year mark.

 

I mean…. You kind of have to right?

 

Also to note I went to three places. First urgent care by my house but wait time was hours out. They told me the urgent care the next town over could see me right away. Went there and the dr. Looked at it and said go to the ER. So go to the ER and got a deep cleaning. They opened up my flap and scrubbed it with a brush and sponge to clean it. There is a joke in there but too soon for me to make one.

 

When I slipped while taking the lawn mower blades off the deck a few years ago the hot walk-in nurse did the same to me.

 

That sucks...

I was on a dog buying trip in Indiana (ironically it was one of the times I saw fire flys while drinking beer on the hotel's upper deck at night); sorry, anyhow, we're on our 2nd to last day there and getting ready to head to the vet w/2 of them for screening and papers to fly home with. One dog decides he's had enough of being manipulated by people he doesn't know.... Dudes being totally chill coming out of the crate, but as soon as I go to put a leash on him, he nails me in the left hand; fortunately, he came off pretty quick... Anyhow, he ended biting head-on into the webbing of my left hand and severed a couple of good bleeders. The vet is unable to stop the bleeding, so we wrap it up quickly and haul ass to the closest hospital which is about 45 minutes away.

So, we're heading to a small hospital in a tiny ass town, and I"m thinking... This is not going to go well

Get to the hospital and start to check in. Receptionist asks why I'm there. I unwrap my hand, she says, 'oh shit you need to follow me'... (that was my quickest ER check-in ever)... I end up seeing the Dr within about 5 minutes and he says we're going to do a conscious sedation (whatever the hell that meant); so I remember feeling a bit loopy, but then I'm watching them debride the wound on top of my hand, and he then says, 'how you feeling, I'm going to have to cut out some of this dead tissue'... At that point I was good and really felt nothing. They get to a point where they're finishing up and need to loosely close the wounds so they can drain... Several loose sutures on the top to tie the skin back into place (somewhat), and then they flip my hand over...

Dr. says, 'we're going to need to do a few loose stitches on the palm area as well'... First one goes in and i must have reacted, as Dr. says, 'Did you feel that'?? Fuck yeah I felt it... Dr says, 'Well you shouldn't'. I tell him, 'Uhhhh, I did'. He asks do you want me to give you more local, so I ask how many more stitches are we taking??? He says 2 more. I tell him to just get them done. Those other 2 were not pleasant either. Mind you the Dr. was super polite and interactive about trying to mitigate my discomfort during the process (this surprised me based on past ER experiences).... Dr. then tells me I'll probably end up w/some nerve damage and to see a hand specialist when I get back to Vegas....

Get home, visit specialist, and they say everything looks good and that the ER Dr. did a great job with what he had to work with. I ended up writing a letter to that hospital and to the Dr. to thank them for how I was treated and for the work they did. I guess sometimes it pays off to not be in a major city or major facility when it come to quality of care.

Well, that ended up being a novel

 

You know there are dogs probably within 5 - 10 minutes from you, right?

joking aside, that’s fucking nuts.

 

Just. Fooking. Ouch.

 

When my daughter was about 4 she cut her head while camping. Blood everywhere.
It was a 25 minute drive to the hard surface road and another 30 to a small hospital, Stonewall Jackson Memorial. I thought the same as you. Turned out it was close to VMI and they were experts in head wounds from weekend nights. They were super nice and even shampooed the blood out of her platinum blond hair.