OMG, What A Relief.
About 3 weeks ago, it got down to 12° overnight. I had the woodstove going. (And) I got up in the middle of the night, to re-load the woodstove. Not wanting to turn the lights on, I put my hand down towards the wood pile (in the dark) and pushed a pretty good sized Oak splinter straight in to my left forefinger. Not at an angle, where you can see it and dig it out, but straight in, deep. Definitely, Not good. 🤕
I dug at it for at least a week, trying to get it out. (Making a mess out of it.) I opened it up, made it bleed big time and kept squeezing it, hoping to get the splinter to "flush out." Thought I might have got it. (?)
Left it alone for about two weeks. (Difficult.) Well, my finger get getting more and more tender. The wound, healed over. My finger kept getting bigger and bigger. More and more tender. 😮 I knew I wasn't done with it.
Today, in the lunch room, I used the big toenail type clipper I keep in my pocket all the time, to take it down to where the accumulated fluid gushed out. (Sorry.) Instant relief. (Like drilling a toenail/fingernail, after it's gone black to relieve the pressure.)
I squeezed a good amount out. Hoping it flushed the splinter out, with the skin I removed. Instant relief.
Left a pretty good size, deep hole in my finger. 😮 packed it full of prescription Anti-Biotic and did the finger tip industrial band-aide routine on it.
OMG, does it feel better. 👍😁
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Shaking my head!
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VA care. While very good, it is about 1 1/2 hour ea. way.
(Plus) Like a typical Guy, I don't go to seek medical help, unless it's pretty serious.
I can cut in to my finger, as well as any Doc. (Prior Wilderness EMT.) I got the whole "Wound Management," thing. 👍😁
*Have I mentioned how much better it feels? 😃
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I know you know, but, watch for infection. Glad you got it.
Had a nasty one years back of versa-lam. Couldn't get it all, kept just crumbling digging it. Got infected (most likely from the chemicals / glue they use) bad. Had the red line going up the arm and all. Wound up in ER getting IV anti biotics every 3 hours for 2 days. Told them to admit me so we don't have to drive back and forth, and not getting any sleep. Wouldn't do it, said it didn't justify being admitted.
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I'm a seriously Happy Camper, right about now.
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guess that meat cutter training came in handy afterall, but I think it would have been easier to use the slicer.............
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My bud's were like, "Go see a Dr."
I'm like, "Are you nuts, I just bought an expensive Firearm."
My one bud said, "I hope it's your Trigger finger. How ironic would that be?"
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Just keep it clean. Make sure you wash out with peroxide. Or at least wash with betadine.
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Cleansed it well, then packed it with prescription anti-biotics. Fingertip bandages covering it up.
Best I can do.
Feels 100% better. 👍😁
Hence my "OMG, What a Relief."
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Cleansed it well, then packed it with prescription anti-biotics. Fingertip bandages covering it up.
Best I can do.
Feels 100% better. 👍😁
Hence my "OMG, What a Relief."
I'm glad you're on it
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I've been whacking it on stuff for 3+ weeks now. Excruciating.
This is much Mo Betta. 👍😁
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Even what seems like a minor thing like a splinter needs to be taken care of. A friend of mine that helps me cut trees around here got a minor (seemingly) leg cut. He wiped it off and kept working. Days later it was hurting and became infected. He tried self treatment until it got bad and he went to the doctor. Ended up in the hospital for an extended time but they couldn't clear it up. He ended up losing his leg up to the knee. Even what seems like small injuries need to be treated.
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I know you have taken medical training so I am sure you know way more than I
As for this advice not saying good or bad
But I have been told and I have follow advice don't pack a deep wound with any meds it's better to topical treat it and let it breath and drain
Glad you got some releave hope it heals fast now for you
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Back in the good ole days your dad would have told you "it's fine, just rub some dirt in it." Maybe that is why so many died young....
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If you loose your trigger finger and are going to be selling any of your guns on GB give us a heads up notice?
I've had to do them go-backs on myself due to healed up splinters, slivers of steel, thorns. Get little painful when they heal up with infection inside.
Getting stuff stuck in the eyeball is also aggravating. especially slivers of steel.
I tried the using the big magnet trick on eyeball steel but the magnet kept getting stuck to the side of my head.
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Been there, done that, but I still wound up with a trip to the ER for an infection and more slicin' and dicin'. Turns out I didn't get all of that hickory sliver out of my thumb after all!
Glad you're feelin' better and please be sure to wear extra gloves at work. Wouldn't want to get any of that on anybody's ribeyes!
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It was my left forefinger. I'm right handed.
I was very careful at work. I would wear a thin (disposable) plastic glove when handling anything that was not packaged. Any time it was not healed over, it's had a fingertip type bandage on it as well.
We keep boxes of disposable type gloves all over the meat room, so they are almost always within arms reach. No big deal to slip one on. (Plus it was healed over for the last two weeks.)
I hear you on not packing deep wounds, Ditch. I agree with that. I figured initially, I'd better get some anti-biotic down into it. It feels SO much better this am.
Day off today. I will remove band-aid and allow it to breath.
(I also became very adept at holding it up and out of the way. Kinda like holding your pinkie up when drinking tea.) Still doing it.
*I've done the metal sliver in the eye thing. That was several levels worse than this. It reminds you to use safety glasses.
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Glad it worked out for you Ken. Next time take a flashlight with you. 😉
Joe
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I got a blood blister working on my car and the next day, working on my car again, I broke it. But I didn't stop and clean it out and cover it. Evidently a little bit of something got in there and I ended up with a fibroloma. Like a little mushroom of tissue coming out of the tip of my finger. It was the weirdest thing. I tried to nurse it along, hoping it would go away but it didn't. I ended up going to the ER where they cut it off. The ER doc was towing a group of nursing students that day so they got to see something interesting I suppose. I think the main idea is when you break your skin, stop and take care of it.
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Redwood splitters are the worst.
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You all bring back memories of Mercurochrome on everything that broke the skin in my younger days! I even used it on my kids growing up. Had an old bottle in the medicine cabinet that I threw away probably 10 years ago and believe it or not, wish I still had it!!
Stuff seemed to really work well and here I am still alive and kicking!
P.S. While looking up this picture, I see it can still be had on E-Bay 😲
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Back in the good ole days your dad would have told you "it's fine, just rub some dirt in it." Maybe that is why so many died young....
On the contrary, Bruce - I believe we had better immune systems, in those days.
Drank from garden hoses, didn't get Anti-biotics prescribed for everything, (creating "Super Bugs") etc. etc.
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If the swelling and redness is going away you probably got the last bits of splinter out and infection will clear up. Funny how just a little piece of wood or matter under the skin can feel like a ton of boulders in there. Good luck, hope it heals up fast.
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Thanks @waltermoe. I removed a small purple ball of hardened blood (about the size of a small BB) that was under the healed skin. Although my finger was very tender, it did not hurt to cut this out. (So) I knew it was all dead skin. I believe the splinter was attached to that. The relief, as soon as I cut that out and released the fluid underneath was instantaneous.
I was (however) quite surprised at the size of the pretty deep hole left underneath and the amount of fluid released. It was impressive. (Not in a good way.)
It's definitely on the mend, (finally) after 3+ weeks.
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Think I was bottle fed that stuff. @Brookwood
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Good to hear it's on the mend
As a kid mom had a tin of drawing salve as she called it .it looked like dark brown grease and it looked like it was 50 yrs old then the tin it was in light bulb with the lettering worn almost off
But it was the go to for anything she thought alcohol or peroxide could not handle
I would guess most on here Have had more than a few similar incidents we refused to get help with when we should have
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Lube the cut and hole up good!
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We have the ultimate first aide kit on all the trucks. Black electrical tape, napkins, a razor blade and super glue to put over the cuts. Nobody died yet!!!! This is the typical construction first aide kit, you find on any job site. Heck, I have even sutured a few kids at work.
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Did you actually get the splinter out?
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I believe I did.
It feels great now. Swelling and tenderness almost gone.
Loving it.
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