The "I Hate To Say This, But" Game

estranged4life · #1 03-13-2007, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by irishgrl

GEEZ LOUISE! what the heck did you do? when I got bit by a German Shepard (still have the canine marks in my left hand) they did nothing....of course it could be because I convinced my folks not to take me to the hospital...

for the story of the ER visit/gaping gash episode:

This afternoon about 1PM, I decided to take out the trash in the kitchen, so I did my usual and pressed down the trash into the sack so I could remove the trash-sack from the can. So when I finished pressing the trash down I pulled my right hand back to see what appearred to be 'tomato paste' on my hand (But we havent eaten anything with 'tomato paste'), but once it started to drip I knew it wasnt 'tomato paste' but blood. I somehow sliced my hand open down to the bone without feeling any pain (A "bad' by-product of the arachnoid cyst in my brain)

So, I headed into the bathroom to wash it off the blood, thinking it wasnt going to look that bad. The slice on my hand was about 2" long and 1/4" wide, so wide infact that I could clearly see the layers of fat/tissue below my skin and the knuckles of my index and middle fingers.

So off to the ER we went to have the gash closed on my right hand.

Once in the ER room (Once again I was in the ol' familiar room #9) I had my vitals taken, and was asked to remove the bandage (Which was fine by me, I wanted to remove it instead of having a nurse pull it to make it bleed even more). Next, my wound was washed under cold water with a saline mix by an African American nurse who wasnt prepared to see my wound, She said "Damn, that is very deep". of course, the blood was pouring so much that it started to make me dizzy.

The trauma room RN came in, evaluated my hand, then had me place my hand in a iodine wash for 10 minutes until the doctor arrived to do his evaluation. The nurse came back to test me for another numbing solution since I am allergic to lidocaine.

After he pricked me to test to see if I would have an allergy to the numbing agent (Cant remember the name at this moment), to which I had no reaction, He took a syringe of the numbing agent and pricked around the wound 5 times and once inside the wound to deaden the feeling so the wound could be closed (That lone prick was the only pain I felt related to this injury, thanks again to the bad by-product of the arachnoid cyst.)

Dr.Storms (Ya gotta love how I can tie all of this to Fleetwood Mac by the Dr's name

) proceeded to check the wound to see if I sliced the tendon in half, which I didnt, so he suggested closing the wound with surgical staples since they are more flexable since the wound was in the fleshy area between my knuckles (Stitches would not be as flexable).

The doctor ended up putting 6 staples in to close the gaping wound, and I also received a tetanus shot to boot (Didnt even feel the tetanus shot - UNTIL on the trip home in which Deb drove. I wasnt taking any chances that I would pass out from a negative reaction to the tetanus shot.)

DrummerDeanna · #2 03-13-2007, 11:53 PM

^^

Jesus Brian. Too bad the ER/Hospital doesn't have a 9 visits and your next one is free policy, eh?

estranged4life · #3 03-14-2007, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

^^

Jesus Brian. Too bad the ER/Hospital doesn't have a 9 visits and your next one is free policy, eh?

since I am married to a staff member

irishgrl · #4 03-13-2007, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by estranged4life

for the story of the ER visit/gaping gash episode:

This afternoon about 1PM, I decided to take out the trash in the kitchen, so I did my usual and pressed down the trash into the sack so I could remove the trash-sack from the can. So when I finished pressing the trash down I pulled my right hand back to see what appearred to be 'tomato paste' on my hand (But we havent eaten anything with 'tomato paste'), but once it started to drip I knew it wasnt 'tomato paste' but blood. I somehow sliced my hand open down to the bone without feeling any pain (A "bad' by-product of the arachnoid cyst in my brain)

So, I headed into the bathroom to wash it off the blood, thinking it wasnt going to look that bad. The slice on my hand was about 2" long and 1/4" wide, so wide infact that I could clearly see the layers of fat/tissue below my skin and the knuckles of my index and middle fingers.

So off to the ER we went to have the gash closed on my right hand.

Once in the ER room (Once again I was in the ol' familiar room #9) I had my vitals taken, and was asked to remove the bandage (Which was fine by me, I wanted to remove it instead of having a nurse pull it to make it bleed even more). Next, my wound was washed under cold water with a saline mix by an African American nurse who wasnt prepared to see my wound, She said "Damn, that is very deep". of course, the blood was pouring so much that it started to make me dizzy.

The trauma room RN came in, evaluated my hand, then had me place my hand in a iodine wash for 10 minutes until the doctor arrived to do his evaluation. The nurse came back to test me for another numbing solution since I am allergic to lidocaine.

After he pricked me to test to see if I would have an allergy to the numbing agent (Cant remember the name at this moment), to which I had no reaction, He took a syringe of the numbing agent and pricked around the wound 5 times and once inside the wound to deaden the feeling so the wound could be closed (That lone prick was the only pain I felt related to this injury, thanks again to the bad by-product of the arachnoid cyst.)

Dr.Storms (Ya gotta love how I can tie all of this to Fleetwood Mac by the Dr's name

) proceeded to check the wound to see if I sliced the tendon in half, which I didnt, so he suggested closing the wound with surgical staples since they are more flexable since the wound was in the fleshy area between my knuckles (Stitches would not be as flexable).

The doctor ended up putting 6 staples in to close the gaping wound, and I also received a tetanus shot to boot (Didnt even feel the tetanus shot - UNTIL on the trip home in which Deb drove. I wasnt taking any chances that I would pass out from a negative reaction to the tetanus shot.)

personally I think a few butterfly bandages and some pain killers would have been optimal....at least better than what you went thru

estranged4life · #5 03-14-2007, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by irishgrl

personally I think a few butterfly bandages and some pain killers would have been optimal....at least better than what you went thru

I still dont feel no pain in it (Which is why I am typing BADLY as usual

) but I cut into a blood vessel, thus all the blood so that needed to be treated.

I have a scar on my left leg from a similar 'clean cut' injury, and all I did for that was wash it in peroxide and wrap it up. Left a nice 12" scar that some assume is from a surgery, when it was from cutting myself jumping a fence playing with my older brother.