The insides of your fingers

[northwind]

Had a slight meat knife incident last night and opened my left hand up... How cool are the insides of your fingers? One of them didn't bleed, and when I flexed it to make sure it wasn't actually damaged I could see all the stuff moving, it was like Terminator :smt032 Unfortunately when I pointed this excellent new feature out to the man at the hospital he agreed that it was cool, but then he stitched the viewing window back up and now it's all gone :( No sense of adventure, these NHS types. Wish I'd taken a video.

Apparently I just nicked the muscles in one finger, and just missed them in another, no major damage done, and all that one handed typing practice is coming in very handy :smt003

[Mr Toad]

So will Mrs Palm and her 5 sisters be having some time off :smt003


:wink:

[Bluepete]

Sounds like you had some really good painkillers there Northy!

I had a lad go over a fence once, he de-gloved (took all the skin off, like taking a glove off) his middle finger on the spikes at the top. He wasn't as peased about it as you, but it was cool, seeing the bits working!

[G]

You can type better than me with two hands haha

I always remember catching my finger between some racking and a pallet truck at Toy R Us, It didnt bleed straight but when I bent my finger all hell broke loose and I was spurting blood every where, you could squeeze my finger like an uder and it would shoot out, brilliant fun...........until you faint lol

[FG1]

I had a similar thing in Germany a few years back. I fell over whilst ice skating and slid into somebodys blade. The blade went straight between 3 and 4 finger. I could pull them quite widely apart and it looked brill. Like you though, they stitched the cut up, nine stitches I had.

[kitkat]

no sense no feeling

[the_lone_wolf]

won't be shaking hands with the governer of love any time soon then...

[Warthog]

I had a similar thing in Germany a few years back. I fell over whilst ice skating and slid into somebodys blade. The blade went straight between 3 and 4 finger. I could pull them quite widely apart and it looked brill. Like you though, they stitched the cut up, nine stitches I had.

I thought that was just an old scare story to make you wear gloves! Didn't know it had actually happened to anyone!

[the_lone_wolf]

I thought that was just an old scare story to make you wear gloves! Didn't know it had actually happened to anyone!

years ago they had to close the local rink here while they found the tip of someone's finger:smt103

[Ping]

Bloody 'ell Northy!! :smt103 That was lucky. :lol:


Gotta luv that nonchalant attitude. :lol:
:thumbsup:

[northwind]

Toad, Lone Wolf, I have a spare.

That was lucky. :lol:


I would have said "lucky" would have ben grabbing the blunt edge :smt003

years ago they had to close the local rink here while they found the tip of someone's finger:smt103

Call 999, they say "Keep the finger on ice". "Nooooo problem. How much ice?"

[Ping]

Toad, Lone Wolf, I have a spare.



I would have said "lucky" would have ben grabbing the blunt edge :smt003



Call 999, they say "Keep the finger on ice". "Nooooo problem. How much ice?"
"Smart" would have been grabbing the blunt edge... as it didn't work out that way I'd say you were "lucky". :lol:

;)

Glad it turned out as well as it did dude. :)

[northwind]

But...
Hang on...
That's...

No, you're right, I lose :smt003

[Sean_C]

Smart would have been grabbing the handle ;)

GWS matey.

[yorkie_chris]

Apparently I just nicked the muscles in one finger, and just missed them in another, no major damage done, and all that one handed typing practice is coming in very handy :smt003

Coming in handy for what? :-P

[xXBADGERXx]

I stuck a knife right through my hand seperating two Frozen Beefburgers with a Kitchen Devil , that had some interesting insides too :)

[anna]

awwwwww hun not at all good!!! hope it heals up okay and glad its not worse...

insides are very cool however they are called insides for a reason .. they like to be kept away from prying eyes ;)

[MavUK]

Err... Ow...

Kewl attitude though :)

[chutz]

hands and fingers are indeed rather interesting to look at. I see a lot of 'em opened up at work, not to mention hips, knees and just about anything you care to mention. Heal fast Windy

[tone64]

Had a slight meat knife incident last night and opened my left hand up... How cool are the insides of your fingers? One of them didn't bleed, and when I flexed it to make sure it wasn't actually damaged I could see all the stuff moving, it was like Terminator :smt032 Unfortunately when I pointed this excellent new feature out to the man at the hospital he agreed that it was cool, but then he stitched the viewing window back up and now it's all gone :( No sense of adventure, these NHS types. Wish I'd taken a video.

Apparently I just nicked the muscles in one finger, and just missed them in another, no major damage done, and all that one handed typing practice is coming in very handy :smt003

took 3 fingers out with a circular saw last year, not my best hour, took out tendons, bone etc, got them all but they don't work as well as they did:hackedoff:

[northwind]

Ooh, that's no good Tone64 :( Do you reckon you'll see improvements over time? Amazing the reconstructions they can do now...

Chutz's download site has tracks called "A Cold Hand" and "Tainted Red" on it, how appropriate :smt003

[chutz]

Northwind said:-

Ooh, that's no good Tone64 :sad: Do you reckon you'll see improvements over time? Amazing the reconstructions they can do now...

Chutz's download site has tracks called "A Cold Hand" and "Tainted Red" on it, how appropriate :smt003


lol.:smt035

[dizzyblonde]

I had a cat food tin stuck on the end of one of my fingers once. Dozy mare pushed the lid down inside the tin and my finger with it. Had to push it in further to get the damn thing out...and yes it is rather fascinating looking at the inside of your finger...lol.

But I didnt want stitches and had to have a plaster on it for a very long time.......a nasty scar its left on my pointing finger...a bit numb on one side too:-(

[chris8886]

So will Mrs Palm and her 5 sisters be having some time off :smt003


:wink:

won't be shaking hands with the governer of love any time soon then...

hehe, :winner::smt044:smt046 fnarr, fnarr.

[K]

Stiches - cor ain't you all technical n that... I just use gaffa tape. :roll:


No - really - I do.

The amount of prop making I used to do that involved carving high density foam with scaples - now it works reeeeaaaaallly well whilst they are sharp - but when they start to dull it can sometimes stick in the foan and not slice smoothly. If you are being lazy and not changing blades regularaly enough you can get caught out... espescially when it then shifts and cuts again - kinda shoots through the foam at warp speed and through various intersecting bits of flesh too. :roll:

Fingers, thumbs, hands, wrists (the back of... yeah, that was a close call), arms and thighs - anything that is directly in the firing line so to speak - sliced and diced them all at some point.
I used to put everything into my work - blood sweat and tears! :twisted:

Never completely lost a body part - and even a dull scaple blade is fecking sharp when it comes to slicing flesh (muscles and tendons too :roll:), and the cuts were usually done so fast they just didn't hurt, seemed not to bleed for like a minute or two (unless curiosity got the better of me occasionally and I went "oooooh" poke-a poke-a) and were lovely neat edges that simply stuck back together with a bit of gaffa tape.

Couple of days and tear it off and it's good as new.




Those days are behind me and now and I'd probably faint - turning into a right wuss in my old age. :oops:

[carty]

I love custard. Once I opened a tin, got out as much of it as I could with a spoon, then unthinkingly licked round the top of the tin. Needless to say my tongue bled a lot.

I also used to style my sideburns (come on, we all used to see what we could do when they first started growing, didn't we?!) with a razor blade. Not attached to a handle, just the blade. I'd just finished doing one side, holding the blade between thumb and forefinger and I ran my hands under the tap then splashed my face, slashing straight across my cheek in the process.

Both clean cuts which healed quickly, but you get a lot of blood first!

I can be stupid at times!

[ooger]

I got a dog bite right on the inside fold of the final bend on my middle finger a few months ago.

There was loads of foamy white bobbly stuff hanging out, freely.

I was transfixed for ages.

I took the K approach and just shoved it all back in and stuck loads of plasters on, followed by much micropore, then some industrial sellotape.

3 times a day! Eventually the stuff that wouldn't go back in (room is limited under your skin) just died and fell off.

It took ages to heal cos I usually bend my fingers when they're "in use".


Note that I don't recommend this approach, probably best to go the A&E bit.

[northwind]

I forgot to mention the NHS 24 bit. Usually like K I just bodge myself up with tape (duck tape personally, it's stretchier than gaffer) and micropore. When I used to do wargames modelling I sometimes used a bit of superglue :mrgreen: But I draw the line when I can see insides, and the skin's all flappy open, so I phoned up NHS 24 (just to find out what hospital to go to). So I got put onto an operator, then a nurse, who went through all my stuff and then said effectively "Holy ****! Why aren't you on your way to hospital already you absolute k**b. Our job is to deal with malingerers and panicked parents not actual injuries!"

Als,o why do people go to A&E, hang around for 2 hours moaning, then walk out? And why do they seem to think they're making some big stand when they do it? If you leave after 2 hours, you probably shouldn't have been there at all, and nobody cares if you leave as it shortens the queues. Double win!

[K]

I think the worst one I did was at my first job outta school - working in Jewsons. I was opening a load of boxes, there were quite a few all lined up in a row - so there I am with a stanly knife slashing the boxes open in my usual flaboyant way (ie. drawing the knife towards myself - hell, not the 'proper' way but it was quicker and easier :roll: ;))... blade got stuck then shot forward - straight into my thigh.

Didn't hurt - but had buried itself to the entire depth of the blade which of course had to be one of those extranding ones :roll: - reached for the packing tape but couldn't find the end, so let go of the knife...

... which stayed there, stuck still in my leg, effectively blocking the hole and so there was no bleeding. I have to admit to forgetting about the tape for a bit whilst looking at this knife stuck there, wobbling a bit when I tensed my muscle, going "coooool". :twisted:


Eventually cut my jeans open a bit more to get to the skin, pinched it closed whilst I took the knife out and stuck a bit of packing tape over it. Then stuck a bit of packing tape over the hole in my jeans - I was asked what it was doing there all day. ;)

Wierd thing was it never bled - at all. Took the packing tape off in the morning and there was a reeeeaaaaally thin red line where it had closed but that was it.
I healed like Wolverine in them days - now joints fall apart at the drop of a hat. :roll:

[Blue_SV650S]

Stitches ... you ghey-lord!!... what's the matter with a bit of tissue and some duck-tape?!?! :rolleyes:

[tone64]

[quote=northwind;1529792]Ooh, that's no good Tone64 :( Do you reckon you'll see improvements over time? Amazing the reconstructions they can do now...

I did it last october, had surgery, under a local for 3 hrs and countless stitches !!:smt103, my ring finger and little finger are very stiff, and i can't make a fist, i was having physio twice a week but did not see any improvement, so stopped going, it does loosen up if i give it a good bending, but i can do everything i need to do, just a pain if i am given a handfull of change, in my left hand, ends up on the floor, but i can still ride..........so i count myself lucky,

did you damage any tendons ? or just the flesh

[northwind]

Nicked the tendons in one finger, and either just nicked or just missed them in the other... But I've got decent movement and strength so they reckon it'll work out fine. Lucky miss though... Then, it would balance my hands out :rolleyes:

[Grinch]

I feel ill.

[northwind]

Thought I'd do a wee followup on this one, I meant to do it last week but I forgot, but nice people keep asking me how it's doing and this is easier than telling them one by one :D Got the stitches out etc, no infections, all good. One of the scars is a bit drawn and overgrown, feels really odd, it may or may not fade back but to be honest I'm not bothered. Nice clean fix, good work from the docs.

The finger the docs were worried about, with the really deep laceration, is almost 100% fine, barely weakened... I was using it almost normally as soon as the stitches came out. The one they said was fine, isn't so good, it's pretty weak and the movement's restricted- it bends and grips but it does it slightly wrong so it puts loads of strain on the top knuckle, which is bloody sore... It feels more like a break than soft tissue damage. The jury's out on why, it might be severed muscle getting in the works (which degrades over time, I had that with my hip) or it might be scarring on the muscle (which doesn't get better, but does get less obtrusive), or it might just be a muscle geometry thing (which might get better, worse, or neither). So it's just waiting, it might want opened up again and a bit of trimming, but I'd sooner not, I can live with it as is.

Incidentally, my physio is "Repeatedly squeeze something about the size and shape of a banana, as often as possible". I did that before!

But it's not a big deal, I can type and hold a spanner and once the scar stops being tender I'll probably be able to play guitar again (though my muscle memory's totally gone, so I'll need to relearn I think) And that's all left hands are for :D

I'm never doing the dishes again! It's paper plates and plastic spoons (not plastic knives!) from here on in!

[tanis34]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esnQwVZOrUU
if only all tools were this safe but then i suppose life would get boring

[Ping]

Incidentally, my physio is "Repeatedly squeeze something about the size and shape of a banana, as often as possible". I did that before!

ROFL!! (and f'nar) :smt003