I just put stitches in my hand.. Ask me anything..(pics)

[SoCalDem]

:)..Caution.. there is BLOOD in the pics..If you are squeamish..look away:)



You knwo what they say about it being the DULL knife that cuts you?? "They" are wrong.. I got a brand new SHARP knife..tried to cut the avocado for my salad, and the damn thing slipped.. I stabbed my left hand..



Fist glance.. wasn't too bad..held ice onto the "muscley" part to stop the blood..


Then I put some cotton and ..yes it IS packaging tape.. but it's all I could find..but it still bled so


I took the tape off and prepared for self-surgery


Can't see worth shit, so I had to go next door to have my neighbor thread the needle for me. All I could find was green thread..

[Maddy McCall]

1. OMFG! You are the woman. I bow to you.

How could you do that?

WOW!

[SoCalDem]

2. I will do ANYTHING to avoid urgent care

Just the thought of sitting there for 3 hours will do it.. I draw the line at amputations though :)

[Maddy McCall]

6. I've removed stitches, but I've never put them in.

Again, OMG. I stand in awe of you.

Doing the Wayne's World "I'm not worthy" bow right now. :D

[SoCalDem]

9. I didn't stitch it very straight..palm skin is TOUGH..

There will be a scar, but who's counting:).. My hands are ugly already :)

[jus_the_facts]

3. Yikes....

....I'd never be able to stitch m'self up...hope you've got something for pain...somethin' with codiene is in order woman!!

[SoCalDem]

4. Tomorrow is when it will hurt.. Right now it's ok

I doused it with alcohol and that DID hurt :(

[jus_the_facts]

12. I'd imagine it did....please take something....those pix hurt ME....

...so I know you'll be in need of something...eventhough a blood thinner probably wouldn't be good on second thought. :scared:

[underpants]

5. There was a thread yesterday about someone getting their knives sharpened

Glad you did do that you could have lost a thumb.

:thumbsup:

[SoCalDem]

11. The one that stabbed me was brand new..My old dull ones

would have probably bounced off my hand :)

[bleedingheart]

7. I think superglue will do the trick too...

[trof]

8. JESUS! You are tougher'n railroad spikes!

Pioneer Woman!

[SoCalDem]

10. I stitched a cut in my son's scalp one time..

I am a ROCK in an emergency.. Blood doesn;t bother me a bit.:)

[trof]

29. Oh hell, that's EASY. Sewin' up somebody else.

Don't hurt a bit.
;-)
I bet you could take out your own appendix.

[SoCalDem]

30. Too much blubber to cut through.. I doubt if I could SEE it..

I may not even have one anymore. I have had 3 c-sections, and sometimes they just take it out too:shrug:

[skygazer]

13. Nicely done

Tough to stitch the hand, too, since you can only use one to do it. I keep a couple of suture sets handy because really there's no need to go sit in the ER for ten hours just to get a couple of stitches - I always keep my tetanus up to date because I'm forever cutting myself.

I stitched one about two months ago on the same hand and just a bit further up from yours - more on the side rather than the palm. Actually, the scar isn't even too noticeable and it was a good one too - about the same size as yours.

After doing it, I had to just about resuscitate my hubby - he would faint just looking at your pics!

[SoCalDem]

14. I found the needle in my Mother in Law's sewing kit..She died in '91

I knew I was keeping the sewing kit for a reason.. I used alcohol to soak the needle & thread before I sewed it up..I should have looked for a "sharps" needle.. I just grabbed the first one I found, and it was a bit dull:eyes:

[BikeWriter]

15. Do you take out gall bladders?

[SoCalDem]

16. I DO have a very sharp knife..but no painkillers, so

I would advise against it :)..

[BikeWriter]

24. Okay, you sound like a good surgeon though.

[SoCalDem]

28. Minor surgery only.. ..

But the price is right:)

[toey]

17. obvious question...

did it hurt?

[SoCalDem]

18. Actually no.. Not yet.. Tomorrow will be the pits though

and since it's in a "bendy" part of my hand, it will take a while to heal.. But hey.. i saved hours of my precious time, and at least $25.00 :)

and I ate my salad after I sewed it up.. yum.. The avocado was perfectamundo .

[asthmaticeog]

19. Not something I would do, but hey, suture self.

[SoCalDem]

20. Sew be it

:evilgrin:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

21. now soak it in a pool of betadine

[SoCalDem]

22. All I have is nailpolish remover and alcohol

:)

oh.. and smelling salts..

I washed it with that hand cleaner stuff after I sewed it up,. the thread was all bloody & icky:)

[JanMichael]

34. Like a pioneer woman!

Oh wait..did they use nail polish???

[sybylla]

23. I love the packaging tape!

It seems like my kids are always running off with the medical tape for sports stuff.

I haven't done anything like that since the coconut incident in 1989. Here I am at home with a toddler and a baby thinking I'd crack open this here coconut. Well, it didn't come off the shell like I wanted so I grabbed a knife to wedge betweent he shell and the meat. Careful as I was, it slipped and cut my palm along the thumb. Wasn't deep enough I needed stitches, but it was slow to stop bleeding so I called hubby home to give me a hand at lunch time.

It wouldn't have occured to me to stitch myself up. You are tough as nails, socaldem. I bow to your greatness.

[SoCalDem]

27. Hammers are the best coconut-crackers

and an icepick to poke into the indentations to drain the milk first. they open easily when the milk is out.. We used to crack them on the curb, and then bang the rounded halves together to make smaller pieces..Nothing better than REAL coconut :)

and Tape is tape.. The fancy "medical tape" doesn;t work all that much better:)

[sybylla]

36. I do the hammer thing and substitute a small screwdriver for the ice pick

But the meat wouldn't come loose from the shell so I was wedging that knife in there and slipped.

If they just made a FOOL-proof tool for getting the meat off the shell, the world would be a lot safer.

[JanMichael]

25. OK, I am impressed. Not only do you sew up a cut, but you took

photos and posted them.

;)

How are all the kitties? Stinky is still somewhat grossed out here...I brought home a DOG. As if a man (JanMichael...this is Stephanie) wasn't bad enough...I had to go and debase our home with a mutt!

Steph

[SoCalDem]

26. The camera was laying on the counter..so why not memorialize the event?

Sent the pics to my son..to gross him out :).. The last time I did this, I made him hold the cut together for me (YES this is not the first time I have stabbed myself :silly:..

Poor Stinky.. a dog.. how COULD you ? Big dog?? Little dog??

Pictures:)????

[JanMichael]

31. Scout is a 10 pound jack russell mix

with a 100 pound jack russell personality!

She is almost all white with big brown eyes, and dalmation puppy like polka dots all over!

She is hilarious!

But, Stinky doesn't think so!

[SoCalDem]

32. Well at least Stinky is well matched

sometimes cats never warm up to big dogs..:) I bet they chase each other though..

[madeline_con]

33. Interesting....

thanks for the blow by blow.

(green thread, hee hee.)

Did you ever eat the avocado?

[SoCalDem]

35. Yes. I did.. It was DEE-lish

:)

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

37. AGGGHH

:scared:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

38. Well, hat's off for your courage.....

I sure as HELL would not have touched that with a ten foot pole!

Watch it for signs of infection, OK? Because it certainly could get infected....

Pioneer woman! Your ancestors must have come over on the Mayflower or something!

Or did they come west in a covered wagon? Jeepers!

:patriot: :applause:

[SoCalDem]

42. Actually, it was a Pontiac

:P

[nookiemonster]

39. Damn!

:scared:

eom

[Sanity Claws]

40. Green thread? Didn't Frankenstein use green thread?

If it were St. Patrick's day, I could see using green thread but today?
Kidding aside, I wish good luck and hope you heal fine.

[JanMichael]

41. Sweet bloody hell you're a tough muthu f*cker!

Damn! Tough as a freakin' RR spike you are...

That's all I've got, DAMN!!!


PS~ Lots of hydrogen peroxide and neo-sporin like products are a MUST now. Good luck!