If you dont get to the doc with a fresh cut it often starts to close up - and unless your concern is a scar - usually ok.... Steri-strips are a good thing to have on hand for us PN'ers - a cut that in the past you might need stiches as long as you can clean up wound and nothing needs picking out etc.... they work great - "plastic stiches" help the wound close quickly, and saves a trip to the doc.... (if you're cut with somehthing that has potential to infect however like animal scratch etc, important to go to doc)

Plus many other words that could probably make all the guys blush?

All I can do is give you an electronic equivalent of a pat on the head?

Keep it clean and I'll cross my fingers as best I can! - j

Kisses for your tootsie.

rose

I'm so sorry. Maybe you should call your doc just to make sure about infection or so on. You don't need that but I so understand not wanting to be played with. Maybe stitches wouldn't even be needed but could recommed something for healing. I'm sending thoughts

Thanks. My doctor is about a 30 minute drive away. It would have had to be the ER or nothing. And of course with my doc being the way she is she'd want to see it before telling how to treat it or giving me anything. I have triple antibiotic cream. And I'm not afraid to use it!

hydrogen perioxide - buy several bottles every time i shop! great to cleanse - just keep dumping it on fresh cut to disinfect.... the docs always recommend it..... on stiches - i've waited until the next day when the cut was in a prominate place like my face - have some interesting scars caues i did wait until next day - cause had already started to close and they would have had to re-open and stich close again -- in those cases probably worth going to have stiched as soon as possible if the scars will bother you....

isnt pn fun?

for you sweet little toe, when my Mama did that miracles happened!!
Besides a stitch would of caused more nerve dammage,which would
of caused more cuzing,with would caused you not to be amused. If is
turns red cut it off, what did i just say,never mine. It must of
been the fever. Why i would never tell you cut off your toe,i'm just
in a state of . Let's see,kiss ,kiss,bad stitches,bad cut
rotten glass. There that's it,and Mel your flowers look
purty as a picture. Sue

Awww! Thanks, Rose!

It's amazing. I didn't cuss up a storm. Course I think there was a bit of delayed reaction going on there. I did cuss when washing it out!

I have or had some steri-strips at one time but couldn't find them. And it's closed up rather nicely. Just a glass that had had iced tea in it. It was from the top rim of the glass as that's the part that broke out.

That was the first thing I did. Had my other half check to make sure there wasn't a piece of glass stuck in there...though the way it was bleeding I was pretty sure there wasn't.

I have some bandaids that are clear all the way around and seals the wound off completely from the air. Before going to bed I put some triple antibiotic on the bandaid and slapped it on my toe. Today there is no swelling or redness at all. Can't hardly tell there's even a cut or anything there. So it would appear it's healing well. Of course I'll be keeping an eye on it.

All this brings me to the conclusion that my PN isn't affecting my circulation. If it was I wouldn't be healing as quickly or as cleanly as I appear to be. At this point I'm thankful for small miracles.