gnappi
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Post by gnappi on Oct 26, 2024 7:55:39 GMT -5
My wife just got done pulling a 3/4 in long by almost 3/16 inch wide bamboo splinter from my middle finger knuckle. I had already pulled two more slightly smaller splinters from the knuckle so three in all. Splinter went in the top and down the side to where I could not bend the finger. It required a set of needle nose pliers to remove. Its going to be a sore S.O.B tomorrow!   Gun hand of course. Don't forget topical antibiotic! |
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Post by doninnh on Oct 26, 2024 10:51:38 GMT -5
Well: My lesson about wearing leather gloves was long and painful.
While cleaning up a small construction project on the lake house in NH,
I had loaded all trash chunks into the F450 to take to the transfer station.
There were two unused 8' 2x4s which I tossed on top to take back to the wood rack.
The second one had a splinter which entered the middle joint of the trigger finger,
bled some, pulled out a few small slivers, took a couple antibiotic cleaned it up
and taped it. Two days later I had to take it to the emer room where they pulled a small
sliver out put me on more antibiotics, pain pills and taped it up again. About ten days
later I could feel an object under the skin which was painful to touch opened it up with
a blade and tiny forceps. Looked as if I was pulling out the whole 2x4 felt like it too,
it was only 1/8"x5/8". About a year later I had to have repairs done to the joint which doesn't
bend.
Have a nice day Don K.
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Post by x101airborne on Oct 27, 2024 6:46:48 GMT -5
Dang Don, you are giving me the heeby jeebys just thinking about that much material under the skin. You were carrying around your own toothpick!
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Post by bradshaw on Oct 27, 2024 10:57:58 GMT -5
YEARS AGO I WAS CHANGING THE DRIVER SIDE FRONT TIRE ON A BUDDY's PICKUP (AFTER A SUCCESSFUL NILGAI HUNT). THE RANCH Vaquero (OUR GUIDE) HAD SET THE JACK AND I WAS REMOVING THE TIRE WHEN THE JACK SLIPPED AND PINNED MY RIGHT HAND BETWEEN THE FENDER AND THE TOP OF THE TIRE, ALL I COULD THINK OF WAS "oh shit that's my shooting hand". NO BROKEN BONES JUST A "crush injury" THAT HEALED SLOWLY. ***** Years ago, on the road between Island Pond and the Quebec border, a man caught a flat. Cold winter night on a lonely road 10 to 20 below ZERO. Jacked his car with a bumper jack. He was found the next morning, a real stiff. Fender crimped his hands to the tire. A cautionary tale to remember. David Bradshaw |
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Post by bula on Oct 28, 2024 8:25:04 GMT -5
Hope you flushed it with hydrogen peroxide. More than once.
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Post by bula on Oct 28, 2024 8:32:07 GMT -5
I worked with silica powder and quartz glass my working career. Commercially drawing and reshaping the glass makes for sterile slivers that don't fester and barely to not at all visible in imaging tests. A number of them still with me. Get the odd poke from the inside, out, now.
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Post by rhino on Oct 28, 2024 18:25:50 GMT -5
I never worked on a ranch, but, as a heavy equipment mechanic I did have to contend with metal shavings/splinters for 20 years, Sometimes it was hydraulic cylinders, engines, etc. Other times barb wire (tanglefoot) and concertina wire along with other hazards in the Marine Corps.
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gnappi
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Post by gnappi on Oct 29, 2024 0:26:21 GMT -5
My shooting hand is the one that I always do dumb stuff to...  Ah the advantage of being a lefty who shoots right handed, it's just about always my left hand that gets the injury leaving the shooting hand unhurt. |
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Post by LeverGunner on Oct 30, 2024 14:57:08 GMT -5
Sorry to hear of it. I've had a few things like that. Winter before last, I was inside sitting in my chair, sharpening my axe. It's an estwing 24" campers axe. It slipped off my lap and happened to snag the corner on my left palm next to my ring. My ring probably kept it from going to the bone. I had a wicked wound from it for about a week. It was tender pert near a year.   |
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Post by junebug on Oct 30, 2024 22:53:22 GMT -5
My Dr. put me on a couple of antibiotics yesterday. It's sore and I can work infection out of it with direct pressure on the splinter path. It went in right where my knuckle gets bashed by trigger guards so I'm going to be laying off shooting thumpers for another week or so. I have a new to me PCP air rifle to keep me entertained till then. 100 strokes with a hand pump gets me 80-100 shots, and a workout.
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Post by LeverGunner on Oct 31, 2024 0:04:22 GMT -5
My Dr. put me on a couple of antibiotics yesterday. It's sore and I can work infection out of it with direct pressure on the splinter path. It went in right where my knuckle gets bashed by trigger guards so I'm going to be laying off shooting thumpers for another week or so. I have a new to me PCP air rifle to keep me entertained till then. 100 strokes with a hand pump gets me 80-100 shots, and a workout. Glad you went to the doctor over it. I'd hate for it to turn septic. |
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Post by x101airborne on Oct 31, 2024 6:05:10 GMT -5
Sorry to hear of it. I've had a few things like that. Winter before last, I was inside sitting in my chair, sharpening my axe. It's an estwing 24" campers axe. It slipped off my lap and happened to snag the corner on my left palm next to my ring. My ring probably kept it from going to the bone. I had a wicked wound from it for about a week. It was tender pert near a year. I thought I was the only one who sat in their chair at night sharpening equipment. Seriously, no joke, I really do. Quite a bit actually. Corn and tobacco knives for clearing vines off fencing or harvesting certain vegetables, hatchets, axes, knives, all kinds of stuff. I cant stand a dull tool at all. My wife used to complain and I just stared at her for a while and she never mentioned it again. And yep, cut the hell out of myself many times. Now when I am done I put blue painters tape over the edge. When I go to use it I dont worry about pulling the tape, just cut through it. |
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Post by doninnh on Nov 12, 2024 5:16:58 GMT -5
I worked with silica powder and quartz glass my working career. Commercially drawing and reshaping the glass makes for sterile slivers that don't fester and barely to not at all visible in imaging tests. A number of them still with me. Get the odd poke from the inside, out, now. well: On the day of leaving on the two week 40th in HA I got a bad glass splinter at the base of the thumb, lots of PH a bandaid and go, Over the next several years it developed a pea size scar over the wound and when the hand guy is working on the trigger finger he asked what happened with the scar? "Glass splinter", "want me to take it out"? Comman Sense says yes, I think you find that there is a code for trigger finger repair but you have just oked hand overhaul (I did not). guess who pays. Have a nice day Don K |
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