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Title: I'd like to recommend a great first aid product.
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scivolutions.com
URL Source: http://scivolutions.com/Merchant2/m ... _Code=A30S5C&Category_Code=FST
Published: Dec 7, 2007
Author: me
Post Date: 2007-12-07 22:10:42 by Critter
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Views: 4735
Comments: 69
I took a wicked gash in the leg today, above the left knee when an angle grinder slipped from my hand and hit me on the leg. In a split second it cut through my jeans and made a gash about 2 inches long and a half inch deep. Naturally, I'm too tough for hospitals and stitches, so after I covered it with paper towel and electrical tape (lol) I went to the pharmacy for some butterflies. That's where I found these neat new things. They are "Doctor's Choice" Skin Closures. They are these cool little strips about 3 inches long. The strips come 5 to a "kit", with 5 kits to the box for $8.99. You expose the adhesive at one end of the 5 strip kit, and press it down on one side of the cut, them expose the adhesive in the middle, and draw the wound closed, press it down again, and then finally, expose the last end of the strips and press them down. The whole thing gets covered with this special pad. I did mine at 5:30, then drove a standard transmission truck for an hour and half to get home, and the strips are still firmly in place under the pad, and the wound appears to be tightly closed. They are amazing really. I think every first aid kit should two or three boxes of these things.
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#47. To: Critter (#0)
LOL! Sorry, not laughing at your injury but being married to a contractor I can relate. My husband damn near cut his finger off with a battery powered trim saw, duct tape is your friend. Thank God it wasn't the circular saw. He nailed his foot with a two inch stainless among many other accidents.
My father was a general contractor, and when I worked for him as a teenager I was appointed medic. Once he ran a power saw over his finger and took a groove out of it. Finger and face wounds bleed buckets. I got really good wrapping band-aids on people. Was also a great believer in duct tape and superglue. "If it's loose, duct tape it, if it's stuck, WD-40 it."
My husband uses the hurts rule. If it hurts you're not hurt to bad. If it doesn't hurt right away, see a doctor.
Uh oh. This didn't hurt. In fact, I thought I just ripped my jeans. It was when I looked closely at the rip that I noticed a gaping gash. lol
Grinder cuts usually don't hurt. And in my experience (which unfortunately I have plenty of being a welder by trade) they usually don't bleed much either - at least not right away. I think the reason is because the speed of the blade causes a searing action in the wound. I had one kick out one time and catch the side of my hand, sort of like I had "karate chopped" the edge of the blade. Of course, there is a bone on that edge of the hand - and yes, it got into that bone. But even that one didn't really hurt or bleed much, at least until I went to scrub it up LOL!! That one healed up real nice too, but I guess it nailed a few nerves because I still have some numbness in my little finger on that hand after 30 years or so... Yertle's recommendation of tea tree oil is a VERY GOOD ONE! We keep it around for prevention of infection in wounds. I use that instead of Neosporin and stuff like that. Of course, peroxide is what you want to use to clean the wound with...
#67. To: innieway, *SHTF - Survival* (#65)
I use it generously, it is cheap enough. hehehe
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestI took a wicked gash in the leg today, above the left knee when an angle grinder slipped from my hand and hit me on the leg.
#61. To: farmfriend (#47)
My husband damn near cut his finger off with a battery powered trim saw
#62. To: YertleTurtle (#61)
#63. To: farmfriend (#62)
If it doesn't hurt right away, see a doctor.
#65. To: Critter (#63)
Uh oh. This didn't hurt. In fact, I thought I just ripped my jeans. It was when I looked closely at the rip that I noticed a gaping gash.
Replies to Comment # 65. Of course, peroxide is what you want to use to clean the wound with...
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