..... and not for the reason you think. I almost cut off my left index finger today. 2 separate gashes, both to the bone. 11 stitches and plenty of lost blood later, and here i sit with finger throbbing.

ps, it really sucks when they jab a needle into your open wound

7/18/2009 6:38:48 PM

Quote :

"and not for the reason you think."

actually, it was for the exact reason i was thinking of.

7/18/2009 6:39:46 PM

did you at least get some opiates out of the deal?

7/18/2009 6:41:07 PM

whats opiates drug lingo for? klonopin or vicodin or something?

7/18/2009 6:43:16 PM

pain killers.. vicodin is one

7/18/2009 6:43:42 PM

kinda. tylenol with codeine. but it did happen at work, so at least its all paid for by wc

7/18/2009 6:44:05 PM

so tell us the story

7/18/2009 7:13:49 PM

not much of a story. i was setting up a tent for a work event. a metal piece popped out of socket and into my finger. blood everywhere. almost passed out. good times

7/18/2009 7:15:50 PM

I go back today at 2 to see if the stitches on one of my cuts are going to work. One of the cuts had only about 10% of the skin attached, so the doc isn't sure if blood flow would return to it. If not, I guess I will just have a big crater there for the rest of my life. I will try to get a pic of it today when they take the bandage off

7/19/2009 9:49:55 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard#One-handed_versions

This is really just a blessing in disguise. Now you have an excuse to learn Dvorak!

7/19/2009 11:34:01 AM

signed

oh wait

7/19/2009 11:43:04 AM

7/19/2009 11:47:59 AM

Got back from the doc. Looks like both wounds should heal fine, but it will be hard to tell for sure until the stitches come out in a week. Here are a couple pics:

7/19/2009 4:11:53 PM

joe #s does this all the time

7/19/2009 4:12:49 PM

lol

7/19/2009 4:57:05 PM

is that the shitty urgent care at moses cone?

7/19/2009 5:02:24 PM

Urgent care in Burlington. And to be honest, the dude was really good. I liked him better than my primary care doc.

7/19/2009 5:05:57 PM

ah, ok. i really dislike the moses cone health system and im pretty sure the last time i ever went was because i got in a wreck and the ambulance took me there. but that looks like the floor!

7/19/2009 5:10:51 PM

This was the first time I ever went to an Urgent Care and the lobby was empty, especially on a Saturday. I was in and out in an hour, and it was some pretty major shit I had done

7/19/2009 5:34:04 PM

Here's one more. My GF's camera on her phone is way better than mine

7/19/2009 5:53:37 PM

tasty

7/19/2009 5:57:21 PM

7/19/2009 9:35:19 PM

i am actually typing with 9 fingers now, so this thread title needs to be revised

7/20/2009 11:51:55 AM

shit...FUCK!! WHY DID I CLICK ON THIS THREAD?!!!

7/20/2009 11:54:48 AM

thats a sloppy suture job but im sure the cut was jagged and nasty

7/20/2009 11:59:27 AM

yeah, it was definitely jagged and nasty. especially the one down close to my palm

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7/20/2009 12:00:28 PM

the pics made me lightheaded

7/20/2009 12:02:58 PM

dude you coulda been a hand model



[Edited on July 20, 2009 at 12:03 PM. Reason : i coulda been an image poster]

7/20/2009 12:02:59 PM

^^

you should have seen it before the stitches. It was like a Saw movie

7/20/2009 12:04:49 PM

On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being child birth, how bad can I expect the removal of these stitches to hurt?

7/20/2009 3:07:31 PM

i dont think it will hurt at all, honestly.

7/20/2009 3:09:51 PM

This is how you go blind.

7/20/2009 3:32:49 PM

having some stitches removed never bothered me at all









UNTIL THIS DUMBASS NURSE TRIED TO PULL ONE OUT AND FORGOT TO CUT IT FIRST

7/20/2009 3:44:33 PM

my husband had 20 staples removed from his head after a tree-cutting incident a few months back and didn't feel a thing.

but he's a big beefy man of a man

7/20/2009 3:45:34 PM

you kind of have old man hands

7/20/2009 4:27:44 PM

^ I had my hand wrapped in a bandage for over 24 hours before that pic was taken. So yeah, it was kinda pruney

7/21/2009 8:09:02 AM

Got all the stitches out of my finger, but he left the 4 on my palm for another week. A couple of them hurt quite a bit coming out, BUT I AM A MAN GODDAMMIT, so i barely cried.

Oh yeah, and the antibiotics are now giving me the shits.

7/28/2009 8:57:17 AM

7/28/2009 8:59:10 AM

yeah, it sucks. just started last night, but now I am making hourly trips to the toilet

only have 3 pills left though

7/28/2009 9:00:22 AM

they shouldnt have hurt that bad. infact it shouldnt have hurt at all. did he not gut the knots first?

7/28/2009 9:17:20 AM

Quote :

"antibiotics are now giving me the shits."

more like the pain killer withdrawal, amirite?

7/28/2009 9:20:35 AM

^^ i was exagerating for dramatic effect. The last 3 stung a little, but nothing major. Most likely because they were scabbed over a little.

^ nah, definitely the antibiotic. Either that or some bad shrimp from the other night.

7/28/2009 9:27:07 AM

Healing quite well. The saltwater this weekend really helped speed things along

8/11/2009 5:09:41 PM

are you a lefty or a righty?

just curious

8/11/2009 5:10:05 PM

righty

but sometimes i jerk off with my left hand so it feels like someone else is doing it

8/11/2009 5:10:43 PM

over the past 2.5 years, i've had roughly ~200 staples and ~300 stitches. w00t.

8/11/2009 5:27:21 PM

^^ hhahahaha that was hilarious for some reason

8/11/2009 5:28:30 PM

The nurse that was "helping" take out my stitches (by helping i mean watching) was flirting with me hardcore. She was pretty cute too, just a little on the heavy side.

8/11/2009 5:28:49 PM

i'm kind of jealous of people who can beat off with only one hand

8/11/2009 5:29:31 PM

just because only 1 of the hands belongs to me, doesn't mean i only use 1 hand

8/11/2009 5:30:26 PM