The insides of your fingers

[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

Northwind said:-

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


lol.

[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]

Originally Posted by Mr Toad

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

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

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

hehe, fnarr, fnarr.

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


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.

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!

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 ), 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.

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!

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 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!

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 )... 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 - 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".


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.

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