A pocket knife, a stick and a boneheaded moved

[MartinH]

Okay Fellas,

I recently purchased a fantastic pocket knife, or EDC. Now I wish I hadn't. Last night I was sharpening a stick for smores and proceeded to almost cut my finger off. Yes, you read that correctly! After an ambulance ride and a hellish experience in the ER, I would like to post this PSA to please be very safe. As for me, this bonehead, managed to leave the ER after almost passing out from the six shots into the wound and blood loss. Thirteen stitches later my finger just throbs, but I'm not sure I ever want to use that knife again. My wife made fun of me, my family and friends made fun of me, even the doctor had a joke at my expense. I would have laughed too if the pain hand't been so excruciating. So to all my fellow BoB'ers, don't follow in my footsteps, don't be bonehead. Be safe!

From the moron in chief!

 

[Hermit]

No pictures? :lol!:

 

[Puff Daddy]

I'm thinkin you can push a blunt stick through a marshmallow easier than you can sew a finger back on......

Was alchohol involved? :drunken:

 

[jefe1037]

my loyal subject, your king offers his gratitude for your service.

nothing like a little idiocy to remind us that none of us is perfect or invincible.
all kidding aside, glad you are well enough to type, and I wish a speedy recovery.

 

[alfredo_buscatti]

Sorry you wounded yourself! Heal well!

 

[J Soshae]

Sorry to here about that Martin.

When my college aged son was about 10, I gave him a knife for Christmas. After telling him to make sure he was always safe, I cut myself while helping him open a different present.

Everyone got a good laugh except for me. I guess I was showing him what not to do.

I wish you a good recovery.

 

[MartinH]

No pictures? :lol!:

Hermit,

I'm telling you you don't really want to see a picture. It looks like a Frankenstein patch job.

Martin

 

[tech2576]

Want to sell the knife? :lol:

 

[Carlos]

Ouch! All the best.

 

[Puff Daddy]

Well you and I can exchange wound pics, have us a little contest. I had a hernia surgery last week. They said it would just be a small incision, but when they got in there they found issues, the little incision they promised is a good 6 inches long and one wicked looking summbitch :shock: :x

:bball:

 

[puros_bran]

Bet with Pdiddy.. he's a white boy.. you know a cut finger is worse than a 2.5 inch wound.

 

[Puff Daddy]

:lol!:

 

[riff raff]

You'll heal, give the new knife another shot. 20 years from now you open it and laugh every time.

 

[calipuffer]

When I was a teenager while making a model I stabbed myself just above the kuckle on my left index finger. Turned out that I cut the tendon. Now I can not fully bend the finger. After any major cut make sure you have full functionality pretty quickly, as things like tendons have a short time to get repaired. All the best on your healing.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Martin, heal quickly. Mistakes we survive are only lessons in the end.

I was thinking those must have been some mighty marshmallows to require sharpened sticks... :lol: ...hell, even hot dogs got the forked-branch routine with the right length made by just breakin' the suckers.

Also, I was recently trying to remove a button from a coat with my knife and nailed the tip of my middle finger pretty good. Hindsight begged the question, "Why exactly was my finger in the path of the blade?" :lol:

8)

 

[Harlock999]

Martin, heal quickly. Mistakes we survive are only lessons in the end.

I was thinking those must have been some mighty marshmallows to require sharpened sticks... :lol: ...hell, even hot dogs got the forked-branch routine with the right length made by just breakin' the suckers.

I was so thinking the same thing, but I was unsure whether I should goof on Martin in his time of pain
Martin, next time spring for fresher marshmallows, it's totally worth it...totally.

 

[Richard Burley]

My commiserations, Martin. I know the feeling of "I'm really stupid" too well, with respect to knives. We just get way too casual with them. If it will make you feel any better, which it won't, let me tell you of a friend of mine, an intelligent, educated man. He recently drew his kukri from its scabbard the "wrong' way, holding the scabbard with his left hand. He managed to slice several tendons of that hand. Living alone in the desert of east El Paso, the drive to the hospital was a bit messy and angst-ridden. I've done the exact same thing, to a lesser degree, and with a lesser knife, but your story is really like deja vu all over again. Live and maybe learn. Keep the knife; it's not its fault. There--feel better?

 

[user 1862]

Martin, simply consider the knife officially christened.

 

[MartinH]

Ha! - and thanks for all the replies. Typing is difficult and I just came home from the camping trip. The cut is still pretty ugly looking and I'm taking massive anti-biotics. I was very lucky in that the knife stopped millimeters from the tendon. Very lucky. My little boy has been freaked out by the large bandage because I think he saw the whole thing happen. I reply for all the well wishes and it must be getting better as I've been laying off the Vicodin. I'll be curious as to what kind of scar I will have.

Later,

 

[plumbernater]

Send me the knife and I will protect you from the evil thing :roll: