Going to be out of commission for a little while

[njsteve]

LOL. I know exactly what you're going through.

For Christmas I bought the wife the 10 inch serated Wustof knife she wanted. Well, on Christmas morning, she opens the package and is all happy with her new blade. I take it to put it in the wood knife rack but before I do, I go and clean the blade by swiping it against a towel....see where this is headed?

The freaken thing is so sharp it slices through the towel and halfway through my middle finger before I notice it.

Knowing that going to the emergency room on Christmas would mean waitng for 12 hours for a doctor to then tell me that the wound has been open too long to sew up (learned this from a prior injury), I decide to grab the one tool that every man knows will fix everything: DUCT TAPE!

I grabbed some antibiotic ointment, gauze pad and duct tape and wrapped the bleeding finger up tight. I then wrapped a couple rubber bands around it to apply direct pressure on the spot. After a half hour the bleeding stopped and I redid the wrap. By the next morning the wound was healed havng pretty much reattached the flap back down.

A week later just the scar remains. I showed it to one of the medics at work and he laughed and asked why I didn't just grab the Crazy Glue as well. (I tried but we were fresh out!)

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[x Baldwin Motion]

&quot;New Skin&quot; liquid bandage, must be a cross between crazy glue and nail polish. Works great, always carry it in winter.

as far as dirt in open/healing wounds, I use disposable nitrile gloves, very strong, also applies pressure to hand/finger wounds.

feel better soon Eric [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]