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04-24-2013, 02:33 AM
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Re: My Woodworking Accident (hand Laceration)
Heh, I wouldn't say (potentially) getting a cool scar out of this makes the whole thing worth it, but it'll at least make a nice consolation prize. :P And re. photos, as much as I was freaking out on the way to the car so my bf could drive me to the ER, I insisted he go in the garage and get my iPhone. It was like half my brain was going "ACK!!!!! Pain! Bleeding! OMG! What if you hit an artery and are about to DIE???" while the other half was going "you are so going to be kicking yourself later if you don't get pictures of this". |
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04-25-2013, 07:41 PM
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Re: My Woodworking Accident (hand Laceration)
holy fuck.. for the the first 15sec I thought that was a separate piece of flesh and you were downplaying the severity of it.
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04-25-2013, 08:30 PM
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Re: My Woodworking Accident (hand Laceration)
Heh, you're the second person to initially think that, but no, thankfully I did not actually remove a chunk of hand, I "merely" sliced it down the middle of that meaty bit below the thumb. The picture is a bit misleading because of how doctors tend to put tissue paper stuff with a hole in it around the wound.
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05-01-2013, 01:49 AM
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Re: My Woodworking Accident (hand Laceration)
NP. It's healing nicely (9 days post-accident now). Suture removal is on Friday. Going to try and get video of that (not JUST because I am a freak, but because, um, I'm kind of embarrassingly squeamish about this business IRL. Capturing it on camera seems to make me oddly less likely to go all vasovagal. Someone somewhere has probably done a study on this sort of thing.).
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05-10-2013, 04:26 PM
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Re: My Woodworking Accident (hand Laceration)
Hopefully it isn't bad form to keep posting in one's own thread like this...but I got my stitches out today and felt like sharing. :P They were in for 3 weeks which is kind of a long time. It didn't really hurt getting them out and was not even that gross to watch. Felt weird when the fibers were being yanked through my skin, but that was about it. Unfortunately I did not get video (kaiser didn't want to allow it and I was feeling too lazy to argue) but the post-removal pic is kind of interesting. Vaguely handgina-ish.  They put steri-strips across it and said to just let those peel off by themselves in 2-3 days.
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05-11-2013, 11:37 PM
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Re: My Woodworking Accident (hand Laceration)
glad you are doing well. I had sliced my right hand on glass in about the same area but deeper I think and had it stitched up at local ER in SoCal and then 3 day later could no longer move my fingers, went to a better hospital in San Diego and found out I cut the nerve there in my hand. I only have 85% grip now but can use it again thanks to an awesome hand surgeon! He said had I had it done right then I would have been 100% back to normal.
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