had a sous who lost a pinky tossing his knife around and catching it. sliced the tendon by accident and about three years later had to have it amputated because the cut tendon was causing his hand to claw up permanently. -_-
worst I ever did was take my fingertip off on a meat slicer, sent blood splatter up on the 20 ft ceiling (ceiling may get higher every time I tell the story). One of the few scars I figure will probably never fully heal. maybe half a mm shy of the bone on the very tip. it got that god awful instant clotting powder they keep in professionally stocked first aid stations. never. again.
I was ******* around with my knife after sharpening it, hacking away at pieces of paper , and i missed and sliced part of my knuckle off. just barely missed an artery.
New year's eve 2015-2016: I opened oysters after drinking quite some champagne.... Stuck the oyster knife in my palm. I enjoyed the rest of the evening, but on the morning of january 1st, when I woke up, I had a hard a time moving a finger in regard to my palm injury.... So I ended in the emergency and later in surgery on the 01/01. We were three like me in this hospital in Paris to get surgery for the same problem on 01/01. In France, it is classical to eat oysters for new year's eve. I had touched the tendon. One month of recovery. Now it is fine, just a scar to remember not to drink before opening oysters...
Side note about health insurance, public hospital, and european union: I arrived at the hospital around 10am. I was checked by a doctor 30 min after. I was getting surgery same day at 3pm. I was back home at 10pm. I did not payed a cent for all this, neither for the taxi who drove me home, neither for all the drugs I had to take, neither for the nurse who came to my place few times to change the bandages. All was taken care of by the mandatory national health insurance. I would have costed more than 6000 euros (~6400US$), if not... There are some nice things about EU.
It probably would've cost you 60,000 in the US....
My man! The technique was to blame not the champagne, have seen many a shucker go awry...New year's eve 2015-2016: I opened oysters after drinking quite some champagne.... Stuck the oyster knife in my palm. I enjoyed the rest of the evening, but on the morning of january 1st, when I woke up, I had a hard a time moving a finger in regard to my palm injury.... So I ended in the emergency and later in surgery on the 01/01. We were three like me in this hospital in Paris to get surgery for the same problem on 01/01. In France, it is classical to eat oysters for new year's eve. I had touched the tendon. One month of recovery. Now it is fine, just a scar to remember not to drink before opening oysters...
Side note about health insurance, public hospital, and european union: I arrived at the hospital around 10am. I was checked by a doctor 30 min after. I was getting surgery same day at 3pm. I was back home at 10pm. I did not payed a cent for all this, neither for the taxi who drove me home, neither for all the drugs I had to take, neither for the nurse who came to my place few times to change the bandages. All was taken care of by the mandatory national health insurance. I would have costed more than 6000 euros (~6400US$), if not... There are some nice things about EU.
Have you guys heard of the saying that a knife is truly yours only when you get cut by it?
"Have you guys heard of the saying that a knife is truly yours only when you get cut by it?"
Or after the first time you sharpened it yourself (well, you "cut" the knife ?
After paying hospital bills for finger lacerations, i dont think ill ever go back to the ER for cuts, unless i cut an artery.
Yup- I am pretty good at knowing if I can take care of it or not. CA works well and I couldn't care less about a little scar. The only stitches I have had are when I paid for the cut.
Sure, if its a superficial cut. But be careful, there's lots of fragile structures (tendons, nerves, blood vessels, ligaments, flexor pulleys, extensor retinaculae....) in a hand that are easy to injure and are immediately under the skin. Also, the last thing you want is to get septic arthritis or tennosynovitis. I would not advise "seeing how it goes" with very deep cuts.
I guess it's easy for me to say living in a country with readily available publicly funded health care, but yikes! these are your hands we are talking about.
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