jusnikki
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never open a tube of super glue with a stuck cap by biting down on the cap and turning the tube.
you end up picking chunks of glue out of your teeth for weeks.
How to treat a cut finger
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Chief Longwind Of The North
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Many years back, when I was but a lad of 26 years, I spilled gasoline on my right pant-leg. It flashed and burned for less than a minute. I took the pants off , turning them inside out to kill the flame, as stop, drop, & roll wasn't cutting it. I immediately headed for the house. We lived out in the sticks outside of Spokane Wa. at the time. Our house water came from a very cold spring. At my wife's suggestion, we filled the tub half full of the icy-cold water and I climbed in. I stayed in until the pain was too much to bear. I had entered the tub minutes after the burn.
When I climbed from the tub, I was introduced to the most pain I have ever felt in my life. The meds at the hospital didn't touch it. I lived with it for many months and bear the skin damage to this day, almost thirty years later. All I have to do is lightly bump that shin against something and it blisters and creates a sore. Then it scabs over and heals. But between the time of the bump, and the formation of the scab, it is tender, new skin, and hurts (not like the original burn of course, but rather like skinning an elbow).
If you ever spill a flammable liquid on yourself or your clothing, get it off immediately, no matter where you are. Years of pain are not worth the momentary embarassment. If you have to, buy a new pair of pants and go into the dressing room. Change them. You really can't imagine how painful a nasty 2nd degree burn really is.
Seeeeeeya; Goodweed of the North
When I climbed from the tub, I was introduced to the most pain I have ever felt in my life. The meds at the hospital didn't touch it. I lived with it for many months and bear the skin damage to this day, almost thirty years later. All I have to do is lightly bump that shin against something and it blisters and creates a sore. Then it scabs over and heals. But between the time of the bump, and the formation of the scab, it is tender, new skin, and hurts (not like the original burn of course, but rather like skinning an elbow).
If you ever spill a flammable liquid on yourself or your clothing, get it off immediately, no matter where you are. Years of pain are not worth the momentary embarassment. If you have to, buy a new pair of pants and go into the dressing room. Change them. You really can't imagine how painful a nasty 2nd degree burn really is.
Seeeeeeya; Goodweed of the North
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Timothy
Head Chef
Actually, after thinking more about it, my treatment and information is about 40 years old.
I have no doubt that better information is now available. Princess Fiona is up-to-date on the current treatment and is actively involved, licenced and employed in the medical field. I would suggest strongly that anyone with this problem go with her suggestions instead of mine.
What worked for me, then, may not be the best way to do it now. Four decades have passed since then.
buckytom
Chef Extraordinaire
omg, the horror!
gw in a gold lame' thong!!!
on fire!!!
well, i guess the latter is a given, once exposed.
gw in a gold lame' thong!!!
on fire!!!
well, i guess the latter is a given, once exposed.
Actually, my best suggestion is to go find all that information now, read it, learn it...BEFORE you need it. We should all know what to do in an emergency and stop asking strangers on the Internet while the blood is pouring or the skin is blistering...the child is choking...
Dawgluver
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PrincessFiona60 said:
Couldn't agree more, PF.
purple.alien.giraffe
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buckytom said:
Dad says you're a very bad adopted son and will be taken to the wood pile to pick a switch.
Btw, glad I'm not a visual thinker. Not an image of my dad that I want in my head. You should be glad of that too otherwise you'd be paying my resulting therapy bills.
CWS4322
Chef Extraordinaire
A little bit of sugar goes a long way...that is, if it is like a paper cut...
Timothy
Head Chef
I will never use plasters for cuts ever again, their evil things. I was chopping carrots and sliced the top off my finger, after a bit of a panic I calmed down and stuck a plaster on it to carry on cooking. After eating dinner I tried to take the plaster off but it had dried onto the cut and was stuck. I tried soaking it in water and peeling it off gradually but it was too painful so I just had to go for it.
I know it sounds pathetic but it was very painful. A few months later my brother did exactly the same thing and was in agony too, he is 6ft 5in and plays rugby!
I know it sounds pathetic but it was very painful. A few months later my brother did exactly the same thing and was in agony too, he is 6ft 5in and plays rugby!
Timothy
Head Chef
Hey! You sayin I'm strange?
Oh yeah!
I'm as "normal" as you are!
I don't think either of us would win the "Normal" award!
JoshuaNY
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I learn new words from folks across the pond every day. I was like what the heck is a plaster!! Had to google it. Cheers
Claire
Master Chef
It's just funny. When peeling potatoes Thanksgiving, I peeled my finger tip. Not an unusual occurence, but hubby came in and commented on blood in the food and took over while I staunched the blood and cleaned the peeled potatoes and took care of the "peeled" forefinger. No one was knowledgeable, but I do have a friend who made me one of my favorite canned condiments (confit de l'onion) and warned me that blood, sweat, and tears went into it; literally. OK, so we're cannibals!
babetoo
Chef Extraordinaire
hey folks, drugstores sell liquid bandages. come with a little brush applicator. works great on small cuts.
I cut about 1/8th of an inch off the end my index finger on a bandsaw...blood everywhere and a not so bright office worker at the Junior High use Merthiolate to paint my finger...that hurt worse than cutting off the finger. Hopefully, liquid bandaid doesn't sting like that!
Point made then.
