Ouchie! Ouchie!

jarrett622 · 07-29-2007, 11:04 PM

Damn!! I was cleaning the kitchen. My sink is one of those old fashioned huge cast Iron porcelain jobies. There was a glass sitting towards the front edge and I knocked it over. Of course it broke when it hit the edge and a piece fell down on my foot. That was bad enough but by the time my daughter got in there to help me by sweeping up the glass around me so I could move....I was standing in a puddle of blood. A piece had not only hit my toe next to my pinky toe but had actually stabbed and cut at the same time. Why couldn't my foot be numb *then*? And of course it hurt like hell. I took some Tramadol before the pain could really set in and now it feels fine. The cut, however, probably could have used a stitch as deep as it is. It stopped bleeding fairly quickly and easily. I'm *not* up to having a doc poke and prod and then numb (needles!) it to stitch it. It's probably at the point where the doc would have a difficult time deciding whether or not to stitch it to begin with.

Anyone want to kiss my tootsie and make it all better? Yeah, yeah...I know ---->

MelodyL · 07-30-2007, 08:54 AM

Oh God, you poor thing!!!!

Well, if you wait and THEN go to the ER, they might tell you, "no, we can't put a stitch in". That happened to a friend of my son's when they both went through the glass window when they were 14 years old.

Louis had come into my house, dripping blood all over the living room floor and told me "Frank is around the corner, there are ambulances and police cars, the glass cut his eye". So of course, I dropped the frozen peas I had in my hand (odd how you remember these things), I ran around the corner and it was as if time stopped dead in its tracks. 6 police cars, two ambulances, my son sitting in a chair in the middle of the sidewalk and some man holding my son's eye in his socket. It was absolutely surreal. Louis had sustained cuts between his fingers. I told him to hop in the ambulance with us but he said "no, just go".

So after Frank got 75 stitches over his eye, and we all went crazy that night, the next day I ran into Louis and said 'what happened with your hand?" and he said "Oh, I went to my doctor but he said "unless you come right in when the injury happens, we can't put stitches in it". Something about scar tissue forming where the cut is.

Now this was 12 years ago, so I have no idea if science and technology have advanced to the point where they can put a stitch in a wound that has closed up already.

Just make sure you disinfected it. And get your feet out of that kitchen.

I don't have anything made of glass in my home whatsoever. I have arthritic hands and a frozen shoulder so I can't lift anything heavy and I once dropped a glass vase. That was it for me.

Everything is made of plastic or rubber, or whatever the new materials are today. There is nothing ceramic, glass or breakable. I only buy 4c Cranberry and Pomegranate drink mix (with splenda). I take out my big plastic drink thinggee. I put in the water, open up a packet of the drink mix. Mix it up. And Alan puts it in the fridge. I don't buy any cleaning products if they are in glass (such as Pine Sol). I only buy stuff in plastic.

I've learned to let Alan mix up stuff in the bowls if it's too much for my arms or hands. Only when it's 100 degrees outside and there's no humidity, well I could run a marathon, but then, when it is 100 degrees outside with no humidity???

All of my glassware is tall plastic stuff. If I go out to dinner, I won't even pick up a glass. I don't want to drop it and have glass going all over the place. Now I'm not talking about a glass of wine. THAT I WILL PICK UP.
But only on my birthday. lol

Melody

P.S. Oh, I forgot, there is one thing made of glass in my house, but no one can bump into it. It's a giant vase in the middle of my big dining room table. It's filled with those big Bamboo plants and magenta colored flowers. I designed it myself. I put it together myself also. Alan hates it because he thinks everyflower will bring a bug. I made him carry it into the computer room so I could take a picture of it.
So here's a picture of it, and I hope it makes you smile to see something pretty. Take your mind off of your feet for a second.

BEGLET · 07-30-2007, 09:03 AM

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)

dahlek · 07-30-2007, 10:19 AM

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

rose · 07-30-2007, 10:39 AM

Kisses for your tootsie.

rose

jarrett622 · 07-30-2007, 10:47 AM

Thanks, Mel! The flowers are lovely!

Yep, cleaned it immediately. Stood in the bathtub and let water run over it then soaped it and rinsed it real well.

The stitching thing is if it's more than, I *think*, 24 hours they won't stitch it because of the risk of infection. Bacteria and such can get down inside and then they'd be closing it up with that inside the cut. Never heard that about the scar formation before. But who knows...different doctors say different things as we've all come to know. If I hadn't been able to stop the bleeding I'd have hopped on over to the ER for sure. It pretty much stopped bleeding on it's own after the first few minutes. The only reason it bled as much as it did is cause I was stuck standing there til the glass around me had been swept up. But I really hate it when I hurt my feet, period. I know most people with PN would agree.

The odd part about this is that it wasn't a heavy glass. It was thinner than most I have. It was apparently just the way it fell and the distance I suppose. The glass shard hit so hard it didn't even stick in my toe, it bounced right back out. It's a bit sore today but nothing like I thought it might be.

daniella · 07-30-2007, 10:47 AM

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

jarrett622 · 07-30-2007, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by kmeb

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)

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.