Comments | gardnerhill: Put SuperGlue in your First Aid kits.

gardnerhill

Put SuperGlue in your First Aid kits.

Oct 09, 2005 21:22

Last night I was washing dishes and reached to pull off the CuisinArt slicer blade one-handed. Slip. I knew instantly, the way you do, that my thumb was cut deep and bad, and was going to bleed bad. It did. Bandaids didn't stop the drip.

But amid my fury at myself (oh shit oh shit, emergency room, stitches, dumbass!) I remembered hearing, or ( Read more... )

Comments 8

rabidsamfan October 10 2005, 04:42:15 UTC

Hmm. Good advice. I don't have any superglue at the moment, but I'll put it on my shopping list. When you live alone anything which keeps you in one piece long enough to deal with calling 911 is a good thing.

frodosweetstuff October 10 2005, 13:56:50 UTC

I've gone a bit green reading this but thank you for the advice! :)

gardnerhill October 10 2005, 19:59:21 UTC

My sister is a doctor, and she uses Superglue on small cracks in her skin from all the scrubbing she does.
You're green? I'm the one who had to watch my own thumb dripping into a sink! (Fortunately, clean cuts like that don't hurt much -- you're pissed at yourself more than you're in pain.)
My thumb is still sealed up, and the cut is starting to look like it'll stay closed on its own once the glue wears off. (I wear a rubber glove to take a shower.)
Superglue...maybe Aragorn should have had some for Frodo's Morgul-wound.

frodosweetstuff October 12 2005, 13:45:20 UTC

Superglue...maybe Aragorn should have had some for Frodo's Morgul-wound.
... and he could have glued Frodo's finger back on, if Gollum didn't swallow it!!

pixiecatfish October 10 2005, 23:08:54 UTC

Thanks for the good advice. And OUCH!!!

patk October 13 2005, 14:44:48 UTC

That actually works? I'm baffled. *g*

PatK
:-)

gardnerhill October 14 2005, 03:32:08 UTC

I did not know this until recently -- but Superglue was originally created as a medical adhesive, invisible sutures! (Which is why the glue bottle warns you to avoid contact with skin -- it isn't toxic, it'll just stick really fast and really tight. As I found out, fortunately!)

It's been five days, and thumb is looking good. Bandaid's off, and there's just a scary dark crescent scar on the ball of my thumb. (I touched up the glue once or twice to make sure the ends stayed together.) I'll probably have a scar, but I still have all the feeling in the thumb so it don't matter.

patk October 15 2005, 15:30:38 UTC

>>It's been five days, and thumb is looking good....I'll probably have a scar, but I still have all the feeling in the thumb so it don't matter.<<

I'm very glad to hear that. :-)

PatK
:-)