DIY Surgery

[Lissa]

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.

[Wideboy]

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

All well and good, but make sure you keep it clean to avoid infection and that it heals up properly.

[Lissa]

Originally Posted by ASM-Forever

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

good stuff! Now you can finally get that bullet out of your gut thats been there since 'nam!

[Lissa]

Originally Posted by Warthog

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.

Originally Posted by Lissa

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

Women and machinery dont mix!

Thats why you should stay in the kitchen!!

Only joking Liss!!!

[Lissa]

Originally Posted by Ollie_07

Women and machinery dont mix!

Thats why you should stay in the kitchen!!

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

Originally Posted by Lissa

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...

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?