Never had pain like this before!!

[Frankenkubota]

Glad to be of service.

Now I have the flesh sliced off index finger on my left hand from the knife which was what the original post was about. Since then I have reached into a plumbing tool box and sliced open the little finger on my right hand. Never figured out what cut it. Cut an under strain limb off a downed tree bracing myself for it to snap away from the trunk and instead it went straight down, gonna loose the toenail off my big toe on the left foot. But the next toe has finally got it's color back. And lastly, wife had to dig metal splinters out of my right ankle after I used a side grinder to cut slots in a new burn barrel.

Ain't retirement grand.

RSKY

i can see why your name is. RSKY

 

[RSKY]

i can see why your name is. RSKY

Yeah, I once thought about changing it to RiSKY but have this handle on everything.

I'm usually not this accident prone. Well.....family doctor did tell me once, while putting in some stitches, that he had given me more tetanus shots than anybody he could remember. The problem is that there are so many projects going......

And I forgot the mention the partially torn rotator cuff in my left shoulder. Having to go to therapy for that.

Dang, I am falling completely apart. I need to retire.....from retirement.

Oh well, have fun while I can.

RSKY

 

[Paddy]

It all started when I ordered these new paring knives from Smokey Mountain Knife Works. They are Victorinox knives, made in Switzerland, and they are SHARP!!

RSKY,

Wow, what a story. We have a few sets of those knives. Even gave them to all our kids, but with clear warnings, those bad boys are the sharpest knife. I've trimmed a few finger tips, but near as bad.

Funny though; when my wife read the knife reviews, one review was very bad because they were too sharp!

I hope you feel better

 

[oosik]

Strange. My mind blots out all the fine details of the two months of pain from my most recent bout with my autoimmune system. I still remember the situation but not the details.

 

[Panik]

Former zoo keeper here - been kicked, bitten and scratched more times that I care to admit.... on top of my own personal foolishness (17 knee dislocations among other things). Along the way I've developed a very strong opinion about advocating for personal involvement in making decisions about treatment.

About 15 years ago I was doing health exams on kangaroos and wallabies and in the process of restraining a roo was kicked in my right hand by a young male. They have 3 nails on their rear feet with the middle one being rather large. That middle nail stabbed and went full depth into the webbing between my thumb and index finger. Was sent to occupational health where the doctor wanted to explore and probe the wound for foreign material......without local anesthesia. Mind you this was a 3" deep puncture wound.

We got into a 10 minute argument about using a local with her stance being the pain of lidocaine injections would be worse than the discomfort of probing and flushing the wound. Perception of pain and associated anxiety are largely subjective.... for better or worse I have a very good understanding of what lidocaine injections around wounds feels like.

Lidocaine injections can burn pretty badly, but I'd much rather deal with a pain I know than get intimately acquainted with the potential pain of someone shoving a probe, forcepts and an irrigation syringe into a deep puncture wound in my hand. I ended up winning that argument, by refusing treatment unless a local was administered. Was a moot point as 4 months later I had puss seeping out of the top of my hand. Went to a private hand surgeon for revision and in the process of explaining what was going on told him the entire story. He laughed, shook his head and agreed with my decision about the local.

 

[masscity]

Late 70's I had a bad habit of picking at my toenails when I was watching TV. I ended up getting a ingrown toenail and it festered causing me to limp.
Finally went to the Doctor, he had glasses so thick his eyes looked like they were 3 inches in diameter. He brought me to another room and had me
lay on a table.

He said let me take a look at it. Good thing he didn't tell me what he was going to do. He held my foot tight and used some scissors or something and
jammed them into my festered toe. I almost came off of the table and screamed so loud they heard me on the other side of the 5 lane road.
It started feeling better right after he finished.

I never messed with my toes again, except to wash or cut my toenails.

 

[cdaigle430]

Had the same happen to me when I misjudged a Milwaukee M18 skill saw. On a sale of 1-10, pain is 20.....and now I respect battery operated tools very much.

 

[RSKY]

I talked to a fellow I worked with for about 30 years last week and told him about my finger. He reminded me of what happened to him back in the mid seventies. He was passing a kidney stone. And it got hung up. And would not pass. So off to the Emergency Room at a local hospital. After the doctor examined him, causing him to scream every time he squeezed the offending blocked (ahem) appendage he told my friend he knew exactly how to correct the problem. Doctor leaves the room for a minute then comes back in and has my friend stand with the appendage on a table. Suddenly my friend was surrounded by several nurses who grabbed his arms and around his waist locking him in position. The old doctor grabbed the appendage, stretched it out on the table, and struck it with a rubber hammer.

Ouch!!

Friend said he threw nurses all over the room and spread urine and blood all over them. Couldn't get his breath and passed out.

Woke up in the ER with his wife waiting to take him home. But the stone was crushed and passed.

I have heard this story several times over the years so I guess it is the truth.

RSKY

 

[lman]

I talked to a fellow I worked with for about 30 years last week and told him about my finger. He reminded me of what happened to him back in the mid seventies. He was passing a kidney stone. And it got hung up. And would not pass. So off to the Emergency Room at a local hospital. After the doctor examined him, causing him to scream every time he squeezed the offending blocked (ahem) appendage he told my friend he knew exactly how to correct the problem. Doctor leaves the room for a minute then comes back in and has my friend stand with the appendage on a table. Suddenly my friend was surrounded by several nurses who grabbed his arms and around his waist locking him in position. The old doctor grabbed the appendage, stretched it out on the table, and struck it with a rubber hammer.

Ouch!!

Friend said he threw nurses all over the room and spread urine and blood all over them. Couldn't get his breath and passed out.

Woke up in the ER with his wife waiting to take him home. But the stone was crushed and passed.

I have heard this story several times over the years so I guess it is the truth.

RSKY

That sounds like Possum Trot medicine.

 

[PILOON]

I've nicked/cut my fingers quite often doing wood work.
Usually my 'go to' to stop bleeding is the closest roll of electrical tape.
Later I do a proper cleaning and dressing.

Worst finger damage was from a kickback on my table saw, that time I actually lost a chunk of flesh and bled like a stuck pig. Electrical tape came to the rescue!
Worst shocker was when I rinsed off the mess under cold water as I guess some nerves were exposed.

Aside from my many nicks and cuts I have all my digits.

 

[SPYDERLK]

The severed flesh, if you can find it, is usually the best closure. With a clean cut you can just slap it back on after a good rinse. I once followed up with an emergency doc visit. Doc pulled it off, rinsed both sides in normal saline, and put it back with a bandaid over it. Healed well.

 

[RSKY]

That sounds like Possum Trot medicine.

I believe he was in Detroit at the time.

 

[JamesHW]

I’ve cut myself too many times to remember over 60+ years, once down to the bone on my thumb, but usually it was sharp knives so the cutting didn’t hurt as bad as the healing. I like to cook and do it a lot so my knife skills keep getting better and I am pretty fast prepping stuff and rarely even a nick these days. The two most painful experiences were bad sinusitis migraines that could be so bad you couldn’t move your head without it exploding in pain. These are mostly a thing of the past as I can tell when they are coming on and take measures to avoid them getting full blown. The winner though was a bout of pancreatitis that landed me in the emergency room and eventually in the ICU on a morphine drip. That was unrelenting, twisting knife in the gut painful. The cause was never clear, though they suspected some sludge blocked a bile duct.

 

[fried1765]

BOY - that sounds like a world of FUN. I've never cut anything completely off. Not even the smallest hunk of hide. But, BROTHER, do I ever have the scars from deep cuts. The worst being - chainsaw to the heal of my thumb.

I can tell you - it hurt like nothing I had previously experienced. Got my pants down fast enough so that I didn't crap myself. But it was close.

I thought it would quit bleeding pretty soon - not the case. So I squeezed it close and held it that way with small bandages. This was a whole lot of fun because blood was running everywhere. Wrapped it in the cleanest shop towel available and high tailed it home on the tractor.

At home - cleaned it up more - more small bandages. Then I got out the little bottle of Liquid Bandage. That stung like mad but pretty soon it stopped the bleeding.

Regained what composure I had remaining - got in my vehicle and drove to the local Medical Center. Of course - first was a great big Tetanus shot.

They stitched it shut and now I have a very fine scar from the heal, half way up the thumb.

Strange how you remember the pretty nurse. I remember the fellow who worked on my thumb. He could have been a pro wrestler.

Cuts can certainly be painful, but a kidney stone will bring maximum pain!

 

[bigtiller]

Two K. stones was my final signal to start drinking lots of water. Man they hurt.