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I was stupid enough today to accidentally ram a half inch long splinter right down the side of my fingernail. After turning the air blue for a few minutes I toddled off to get the pair of tweezers from the First Aid kit........and there they were, gone!
I then spent a fruitless 10 minutes trying to drag the splinter out with a needle, but it had gone in so far that I couldn't withdraw it.
By this time I was really fed up, and my finger was throbbing like a good 'un, so I resorted to desperate measures. I took a clean stanley knife blade and sliced through my skin to a little below the top of the splinter. Then, by pulling the skin away I could just get hold of the top of the splinter with the corner edge of a bulldog clip I found in the office. Quick tug, and out the splinter came, along with a fair bit of blood
Bit barbaric, maybe, but it did the job. For some reason, though, Pete went all wobbly when he heard what I'd done.:D
Wideboy
18-10-07, 06:20 PM
i did the same, got a whopping big piece of wenge in mine had to wait until i got home couldn't get it out for hours
ASM-Forever
18-10-07, 06:24 PM
All well and good, but make sure you keep it clean to avoid infection and that it heals up properly.
All well and good, but make sure you keep it clean to avoid infection and that it heals up properly.
No worries, already used anti-septic on it. This one is minor anyway compared to the time I stuck the end of my finger in the circular saw:D
Warthog
18-10-07, 07:13 PM
good stuff! Now you can finally get that bullet out of your gut thats been there since 'nam!
good stuff! Now you can finally get that bullet out of your gut thats been there since 'nam!
The bullet doesn't bother me. It's the shrapnel from the shells those damned Russkies bombarded us with in the Crimea that really aches.;)
Ollie_07
18-10-07, 07:57 PM
No worries, already used anti-septic on it. This one is minor anyway compared to the time I stuck the end of my finger in the circular saw:D
Women and machinery dont mix!
Thats why you should stay in the kitchen!!:p
Only joking Liss!!! ;)
Women and machinery dont mix!
Thats why you should stay in the kitchen!!:p
Only joking Liss!!! ;)
Believe me, the kitchen is a far more dangerous place. Not only can you cut yourself, there's burns, scalds, smacking your head on a cupboard door you forgot was open...............saw, drills, routers and rivet guns are FAR safer:)
MiniMatt
19-10-07, 06:06 AM
Believe me, the kitchen is a far more dangerous place. Not only can you cut yourself, there's burns, scalds, smacking your head on a cupboard door you forgot was open...............saw, drills, routers and rivet guns are FAR safer:)
Oooh crap, my kitchen has cupboard doors, boiling water AND saws, drills, routers and rivet guns....
Anyway, congrats on your surgery; just promise that if you get a spot of arrhythmia you don't try DIY heart surgery...
kwak zzr
19-10-07, 06:20 AM
mmm bike cleaning as lissa well knows takes a good amount of skin off your knuckles when cleaning hard to reach places, mmm wheres the plasters?
I read the first line of this thread last night then had to close down IE - worse than reading Stephen King!
No more DIY surgery stories & no pictures!
im a bugger for this Lissa i always take my own stitches out, i once took a boiled stanley blade to a lump at the back of my knee oo that was lovely i cut and pulled it right out lurvvliiee, like sqeezing a big zit
Gah, a little bit of home surgery or sticking together open wounds with gaffa tape does wonders for strengthening your immune system. ;)
:lol:
I do similar thing except I don't bother with hunting down the right tool for the job. Had a small shard of metal lodge itself into my fingertip the other day (I was in a meeting, crap knows how it happened).
After a bit of unsuccessfully trying to squeeze it out I got fed up and just tore the skin back from it and pulled it out.
Did the trick. :thumbsup:
God, you girls are so hardcore :smt066 ;)
petevtwin650
19-10-07, 10:07 AM
God, you girls are so hardcore :smt066 ;)
Well you know the saying Stewie.
No sense, no feeling. :p:p:p
Pedrosa
19-10-07, 10:14 AM
Lissa you should have done a Troy Bayliss and chopped the digit off! You don't need it anyway according to Troy!:p
Pedro68
19-10-07, 10:28 AM
I did something similar a good few years back now ... got a big splinter of wood lodged right down under finger nail. Tweezers only succeeded in ripping the end of it :( At which point I turned a nice shade of green (apparently) ... ended up sticking my hand in an ice-filled glass to try and stop the throbbing ... but eventually my boss insisted I didn't look too well and ordered a taxi for me to take me to hospital.
Felt like such a t i t walking into A&E and telling them I had a splinter under my fingernail ... then a triage nurse came out and said [all patronising like] "Mr. Hughes? Splinter in the finger is it?" ... right in front of the whole A&E waiting room :oops:
Now felt like a PRIZE t i t!
Entered cubicle, and triage nurse says, "ok let's have a look at this then, where is it?". When I showed her, she went rather pale and said "Aahhh ... I'll just go and get a doctor".
Didn't feel so bad then ... local anaesthetic given right in the "finger-webbing" either side of the affected digit (ouch! that was more friggin painful than the splinter!). Then the doctor gently prized a pair of tweezers under a slightly-lifting fingernail and removed the foreign body. Had a tetanus jab too just to be on the safe side ... now that was fun ... Nurse: "Drop your trousers Mr. Hughes ... you'll just feel a little pr1ck ..." I thought, "Yeah, I've already had that thanks to your patronisation in front of a waiting room full of patients". Anyway, then it was straight back to work where I hobbled through my shift behind the bar, thanks to the tetanus injection giving me a dead-leg kinda feeling.
phil24_7
19-10-07, 01:26 PM
Believe me, the kitchen is a far more dangerous place. Not only can you cut yourself, there's burns, scalds, smacking your head on a cupboard door you forgot was open...............saw, drills, routers and rivet guns are FAR safer:)
+1!
Warthog
19-10-07, 01:58 PM
I did something similar a good few years back now ... got a big splinter of wood lodged right down under finger nail. Tweezers only succeeded in ripping the end of it :( At which point I turned a nice shade of green (apparently) ... ended up sticking my hand in an ice-filled glass to try and stop the throbbing ... but eventually my boss insisted I didn't look too well and ordered a taxi for me to take me to hospital.
Felt like such a t i t walking into A&E and telling them I had a splinter under my fingernail ... then a triage nurse came out and said [all patronising like] "Mr. Hughes? Splinter in the finger is it?" ... right in front of the whole A&E waiting room :oops:
Now felt like a PRIZE t i t!
Entered cubicle, and triage nurse says, "ok let's have a look at this then, where is it?". When I showed her, she went rather pale and said "Aahhh ... I'll just go and get a doctor".
Didn't feel so bad then ... local anaesthetic given right in the "finger-webbing" either side of the affected digit (ouch! that was more friggin painful than the splinter!). Then the doctor gently prized a pair of tweezers under a slightly-lifting fingernail and removed the foreign body. Had a tetanus jab too just to be on the safe side ... now that was fun ... Nurse: "Drop your trousers Mr. Hughes ... you'll just feel a little pr1ck ..." I thought, "Yeah, I've already had that thanks to your patronisation in front of a waiting room full of patients". Anyway, then it was straight back to work where I hobbled through my shift behind the bar, thanks to the tetanus injection giving me a dead-leg kinda feeling.
I had the same thing! When I was about 12, I was whittling a stick (how many 12-year olds do that nowadays!) and my penknife slipped and rammed a sliver of bark about 1 cm under my thumbnail. It was the most sickening pain ever, I totally understand you going green pedro! I had to go to hospital but they couldn't get it out cos it was bark and kept disintegrating. So in the end I had to leave it in and let it grow out over a month. And to think they use that as torture in some countries :smt086
Pedro68
19-10-07, 02:01 PM
Oooh Warthog, I certainly couldn't have left something like that in ... I'd have dosed myself up on pain killers and alcohol, and ripped my nail off to get at it! LOL
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