holes, they feel strange.

[dkff49]

funny story there Bat. I know we all have a story where we did something that we should have known better than to do.

My most recent which ended in pain was me doing some minor renovation work on an apartment to get it ready to rent out. I had gotten a few of those self adhesive tiles to put down in the bathroom where the plumbers had put down a small piece of plywood around the toilet when they fixed the leaky connection. I was down to the last cut (normal I know) and realized "Hey dumby you are cutting right towards your arm with that utility knife" and just as I was getting that split second thought out the knife slipped. It madea nice laceration in my arm that started about 2 inches above my wrist and went down 1 inch in length, cutting down to my radius (bone for those that don't know). This required 2 staples, which I found to be much nicer than stitches.

Now ordinarily this would not be too bad, but I think I severed a nerve. It has been over 5 months and I still have numbness from the cut all the way to the tip of my thumb. What a weird feeling that is too. The worst though was when the nerves started to make their initial re-connection about a month after the incident, it felt as though I had my thumb in a boiling pot of water. Oh well maybe someday I will get the feeling back in my thumb, until then it is usuable I just need to watch where I put it since I can't feel if it is in the way of something bad or not.


I too have always wondered about how different injuries cause different feelings of pain and how different people cope with those injuries. I have seen people have severe injuries ranging from many different broken bones (some small some larger ones), lacerations from chainsaws, car accidents, plate glass windows, baseball bats, gunshots, and even some I have still not been able to explain and it always seems those with the smallest wounds seem to be handling the pain the worst.

In my line of work you can't be afraid of blood, since half of what you do brings you in contact with it.

[mechanic]

thanks for the funny/painfull stories, chaps!  Keep em coming, we got two threads for this currently, its a hot topic. 

[texasmom]

This is a really gross thread.  Gladly, I don't have any injuries to contribute.   But my sons have had plenty.

One month I made three trips to the ER with various sons who had sustained various head injuries. I was surprised CPS didn't make a house call after those.

#1: One son whacked another on the head with a toy, split that little sucker right open. One staple needed.

#2: One son was playing at the crick, girl threw a rock (chihuahua sized) off the bridge & hit him on the head, split that sucker right open also.  Staples this time as well. Also, it's the first time I saw anyone go into shock, which was scary for me.

#3: One son was doing backflips on the couch (from the side arm, then landing flat on the couch).  Funny how it don't work out so well if you do those backflips from the couch short-ways.  Your head ends up on the coffee table when that happens.  Split that little sucker right open again, no staple needed this time.

TxDad was in the Army back then and was, of course, deployed. We filled his email box full of pictures that month.  Those boys started their own "staple club."

That all happened in November, and I cancelled Thanksgiving that year.  I think that was a mistake now that I think about it, as I had more friends offering a helping hand or encouragement that year than any other.  We should have made it our best Thanksgiving celebration ever.

[mechanic]

young boys and casualty wards are destined to be companions


Just for my good friend Nilsen (and to grose out TxMom) the hole day 3 blog:

extreme close up shot of hole on day three, roughly 50 hours since injury:



again, the blue light is my webcam. I would say it is healing nicely.

[JunkyII]

young boys and casualty wards are destined to be companions


Just for my good friend Nilsen (and to grose out TxMom) the hole day 3 blog:

extreme close up shot of hole on day three, roughly 50 hours since injury:

(Image removed from quote.)

again, the blue light is my webcam. I would say it is healing nicely.

"Tis but a flesh wound" 

[Babalonian]

funny story there Bat. I know we all have a story where we did something that we should have known better than to do.

My most recent which ended in pain was me doing some minor renovation work on an apartment to get it ready to rent out. I had gotten a few of those self adhesive tiles to put down in the bathroom where the plumbers had put down a small piece of plywood around the toilet when they fixed the leaky connection. I was down to the last cut (normal I know) and realized "Hey dumby you are cutting right towards your arm with that utility knife" and just as I was getting that split second thought out the knife slipped. It madea nice laceration in my arm that started about 2 inches above my wrist and went down 1 inch in length, cutting down to my radius (bone for those that don't know). This required 2 staples, which I found to be much nicer than stitches.

Now ordinarily this would not be too bad, but I think I severed a nerve. It has been over 5 months and I still have numbness from the cut all the way to the tip of my thumb. What a weird feeling that is too. The worst though was when the nerves started to make their initial re-connection about a month after the incident, it felt as though I had my thumb in a boiling pot of water. Oh well maybe someday I will get the feeling back in my thumb, until then it is usuable I just need to watch where I put it since I can't feel if it is in the way of something bad or not.


I too have always wondered about how different injuries cause different feelings of pain and how different people cope with those injuries. I have seen people have severe injuries ranging from many different broken bones (some small some larger ones), lacerations from chainsaws, car accidents, plate glass windows, baseball bats, gunshots, and even some I have still not been able to explain and it always seems those with the smallest wounds seem to be handling the pain the worst.

In my line of work you can't be afraid of blood, since half of what you do brings you in contact with it.

Yeah, sounds like ya nailed a nerve good, it may come back (limitedly or fully).   Early last month (about 6 months after the accident) the constant numbness in my right hands lower-half of my palm is starting to be replaced by some feeling/sensation.  Primarily pain/discompfort and being more sensitive to hot and cold now.  I think the doc did a damn good job stitching it back up and the swelling in the region of my gash that the chewed-up tendons were at has gone down recently and the nerves in that region might be healing up a bit now. 

The downside though... is that it's a lot more painful and uncomforitable now than it was just a couple months ago.  It hurt immediately after the accident, but that went away.  Now it's this constant numbing pain in my right wrist and palm.  I avoid regularly taking pain meds for it because then I don't know if I'm overworking it or not.  When I overwork it, or don't tuck it under my blanket on a cold night, it gets very (VERY) painful and unhappy with me, and that's when I use the pain meds.  I hope if your nerves return they won't be as uncomforitable an experience for you as it's been with me so far.

This is a really gross thread.  Gladly, I don't have any injuries to contribute.   But my sons have had plenty.

One month I made three trips to the ER with various sons who had sustained various head injuries. I was surprised CPS didn't make a house call after those.

#1: One son whacked another on the head with a toy, split that little sucker right open. One staple needed.

#2: One son was playing at the crick, girl threw a rock (chihuahua sized) off the bridge & hit him on the head, split that sucker right open also.  Staples this time as well. Also, it's the first time I saw anyone go into shock, which was scary for me.

#3: One son was doing backflips on the couch (from the side arm, then landing flat on the couch).  Funny how it don't work out so well if you do those backflips from the couch short-ways.  Your head ends up on the coffee table when that happens.  Split that little sucker right open again, no staple needed this time.

TxDad was in the Army back then and was, of course, deployed. We filled his email box full of pictures that month.  Those boys started their own "staple club."

That all happened in November, and I cancelled Thanksgiving that year.  I think that was a mistake now that I think about it, as I had more friends offering a helping hand or encouragement that year than any other.  We should have made it our best Thanksgiving celebration ever.

I broke my brothers arm horsing around, had to get stitches in my feet three times (old-school glass juice jars and a tile-reflooring project ftw), had to get 5 stitches on the back of my right-hand pointing finger thanks to a pumpkin carving knife stuck in the drawer, and a concussion from riding my bike extremely fast down a sloped driveway and into the side of my neighbors explorer (I still don't remember the accident or what we covered at school that month) all before I turned a teenager.

Parenting pro-tip: make your kids wear the bike helmet and organize all your knifes so that they're easy enough to access and put away without anybody cutting themselves.