Did something stupid and took a chunk out of my thumb. I thought I could just bandage it but after 3 days of bleeding i went to the ER for stitches. I was told that after 24 hours they don't do stitches. I never knew that. Ended up with sterie strips, bandages and splint for 4 days. Moral of the story: If questionable get it taken care of right away. Also, grip large walleyes firmly when filleting. LOL

Dull knives hurt the best.

Not that I like going to the doctor or ER. I usually patch my self up pretty good. I have learned though that bad cuts on my hands and fingers, heal way faster if stitched. No mater how good I wrap, tape or glue. Always seem to rip the bad one open. Just to much movement in hands and fingers unless you just dont use them.

Mac

Super Glue is your friend!

Sliced and diced a few fingers over the years with my scalpel knife some bad ones when I got tired and careless. Wrap in paper towels slip a latex finger off of a skinning glove over that towel cover then get back to work.

I found out quite a long time ago that if you need stitches go right away. If not, wrap it up, glue it or tape it.
I get sliced by the side of the walleye gills quite a bit.
I put some black salve and a bandaid on over night. Next day air it out and toughen it up. That black salve does a great job of cleaning out the cut and drawing all the bad out

it is but with a note for people who have not yet done it that the technique is
1 clean the cut
2 hold it shut
3 glue over the top while holding the cut shut , hold it ill the glue is dry

then you are skin/meat to skin/meat and that heals to it's self quickly

first time I tried it I was washing my chefs knife and slipped , right across the knuckle on the thumb , those always seem to take a long time to heal

cleaned it out , held it shut and glued it , the little single use things of super glue are perfect . fastest I have ever had a deep cut heal.

4 Prepare for some intense "pleasure" when the glue gets in the open wound. I filleted the top of that thump off so I had to put the glue right on the wound and then the chunk of flesh over that. I wish I had got it lined up a little better than I did but it worked. That was around 15 years ago and the nail still has the chatter marks in it where the blade skipped across the nail.

The only time I got stitches after 24 hours was b/c I had cleaned it out with alcohol and iodine when I got home first thing that night it happened.

Cut a few knuckles years back with a chainsaw I could see the actual knuckles when it first happened I will admit I had to sit down for a few minutes after that. Just wrapped the hand and took off for a few days. Never got stitches just always cared for it myself not recommending that just saying it’s what I did.

I don't like getting stitches but I've had a lot of them. I have met a lot of nurses over the years.

Keep a bottle of Vet Bond around just in case.

maybe I used different glue

I was expecting INTENSE pleasure and was really surprised how little there was , I figured it had a lot to do with how tight I was holding it shut not a horrible idea to wear a nitrile glove on the hand you are holding it shut with , because gluing your fingers to the cut area is real

ahh I remember now I held it shut real hard , son put the glue on

but how many of them let you take them out later?

seems like all the nurses here are married or dudes.

Single nurses are like redheads, strippers and girls named Tiffany.....

i seem to recall a warning about the latter 3 , but never the nurse one

Happened a year ago, cut it so deep I still don’t have feeling. Worst part was the numbing shots, they hurt really bad

I gotta throw this out there -
I had minor surgery a few years back. When I came to , found out they stapled me shut. Sent home to return in about a week or so to have the staples removed.
A couple days before I was due back to have the staples removed the staples were itching bad. I decided to remove them myself. Took a nail clipper and cut each staple in half , then wiggled each half out.

Doctor seen I removed them at follow-up visit. He showed me the pliers thingie he was going to use.

I was glad I removed them myself. The tool he had opened them up just a bit and it looked like it would have been kinda ripped out and painful.

Nah, those staples come out pretty easy with that thingee, a little uncomfortable but doesn't hurt...had about 60 removed...ez pz, lol