Just a minor flesh wound !

[Intoelectrics]

Yes, I did the hot needle treatment to drain off the swelling whilst waiting for a referral. got a right -------ing from the nurse when she saw the holes though as I could have introduced infection.
I have removed my own stitches before too to save a day off work. Don't mind a bit of first aid at home at all. Now the kids are out on bikes all the time, and coming off them occasionally, I'm passing the skills onto them in the likely event of there being no NHS in the coming decades.

My mate is a bit like you, accident prone but hates hospital. I had to force him to go one time though when he was removing tiles to add sockets and ended up with a ceramic chip in his eyeball. The plank wanted to finish the afternoon off despite his eye streaming with water and not being able to see properly. We were back on site within the hour.
He's great. If there's a shelf he'll bang his head on it, if there's a carpet gripper he'll shred his fingers, if there's a step he'll stumble down it. Constant source of amusement for me.

I could spend all day listing my work related injuries! I'm scarred up like Rambo ? Luckily these days I spend more time office based than on the tools so the accidents have become very rare (probably for the best!)
I've been told off a fair few times by doctors and nurses also for doing d.i.y treatment. But that's just the way I was brought up. My father always medically treated himself unless it was really serious.

 

[Zerax]

I used to do alot of sailing... and one of the good things with that is that everyone is at least first aid qualified, and often far more...

I remember after a long race a mate of mine falling off a bar stool onto a stone floor... cut his forehead open... there were like 8 people in the bar all trained in suturing ! ...and most of us were keen to give it a go... it's not often you get the chance to practice !!

 

[telectrix]

I used to do alot of sailing... and one of the good things with that is that everyone is at least first aid qualified, and often far more...

I remember after a long race a mate of mine falling off a bar stool onto a stone floor... cut his forehead open... there were like 8 people in the bar all trained in suturing ! ...and most of us were keen to give it a go... it's not often you get the chance to practice !!

can just imagine the poor sod being stitched up with rigging cord and a sail needle. he' d have thought he was going to be buried at sea.

 

[Midwest]

My father always medically treated himself unless it was really serious.

My father had a similar philosophy.

I recall he had a tooth that needed extraction. Rather than going to the dentist, he tied a piece of string to it and the other end to a door handle. Then slammed the door shut. Took him several attempts, but he got there in the end. Not satisfied in his own dentistry skills, he constructed a new dental implant, fashioned from a chicken bone. Which if I recall, was where my Mum drew the line and packed him off to the dentists.

 

[littlespark]

Tying string to a tooth and the other end to a door handle?

Have you been reading the Beano again?

 

[Midwest]

Tying string to a tooth and the other end to a door handle?

Have you been reading the Beano again?

Perhaps me Dad did; but when you young and impressionable, these things like this can affect you for years

 

[telectrix]

Perhaps me Dad did; but when you young and impressionable, these things like this can affect you for years

you can get counselling.

 

[Andy78]

I used to do alot of sailing... and one of the good things with that is that everyone is at least first aid qualified, and often far more...

I remember after a long race a mate of mine falling off a bar stool onto a stone floor... cut his forehead open... there were like 8 people in the bar all trained in suturing ! ...and most of us were keen to give it a go... it's not often you get the chance to practice !!

So the moral of the story is if you need a gash seeing to, find a bar full of sailors. Always wondered what our lass was on about.

 

[telectrix]

So the moral of the story is if you need a gash seeing to, find a bar full of sailors. Always wondered what our lass was on about.

i'll go to the snall amimal hospital. they made a lovely job of Misia's leg.