D.I.Y Bandaging.
Because I'm a daft fool, last friday I ended up chopping into my thumb whilst chopping cabbage very fast with a big, sharp knife for someone else (the same dish what I ended up burning the otherhand with about half an hour later) leaving me with a nice slit going half way around my thumb and into my finger nail. Fortunately this hasn't actually hurt at all, it being a clean cut and me thankfully having a high pain tolerance. I ended up with 5 butterfly stitches and a sodding great bandage on my thumb, making life incredibly difficult with regards to pretty much everything from trying to put on a pair of socks to using a knife during dinner.
I have actually found the last couple of days midly amusing, finding all sorts of different ways to get around the lack of a thumb - I really don't know how animals manage without them! But anyway, I ended up getting into a snowball fight sometime today and my bandage got a bit soggy, and seeing as how I was meant to keep it on for several days without it getting infected, I trooped back to the first-aid bit to get it redone.
This is the part where something so easy gets complicated. I honestly reckon if all the materials had been placed infront of me, I could've done it myself in half the time. It took about a minute to cut through one little string of bandage around my wrist, then another 2 cutting enough of the bandage to slightly roll it off, before I offered to just take it off myself - and did so without even causing any twinge of pain in about 5 second flat. Then there was a tiny bit of gauze attached to the stitches, which I just tugged off before the first-aider had even managed to pick up the scissors to cut it off. Then I removed my own stitches, dried the cut and held a bit of gauze to it while he faffed with some of that rubbish adhesive tape to hold it in place - saying that as it was healing nicely it wouldn't need any more stitches, and tried to give me a waterproof finger cover despite me saying that I already have one at home.
To prove how useless the final thing was, I was able to take it off and show the cut to people and still put it back on afterwards. I then used much more heavy duty and semi-waterproof adhesive tape that I have at home to stop it from doing that.
Basically my point is, if you hurt yourself, most of the time you're just better off fixing it yourself.