Tripped on my Tractor

cat fever · Mar 3, 2016

If that were me, as soon as I seen lots of blood - - - - - down I go. Passed out and bleeding to death. Me and my own blood don't mix.:laughing:
Glad you are doing OK.

Sprinklerman · Mar 3, 2016

Rambo would have stitched it up himself

ovrszd · Mar 3, 2016

Sprinklerman said:
Rambo would have stitched it up himself

With a rusty nail.

Looking4new · Mar 3, 2016

There , but for the grace of God go I.
Glad you are okay.

s219 · Mar 3, 2016

jmc said:
My neighbor goes to the local fire station for major first aid. They've usually got time on their hands and don't mind practicing on him. And it's free.

You know, the day I had to drive myself to the ER for an injury, I was a bit shaky, but I knew the fire station was on the way, 3 miles down the road. I figured if I started feeling woozy, I could pull in to the fire station and go staggering through the front door for help.

Sawyer Rob · Mar 3, 2016

You forgot that "other" option......the one that I use. I stop the bleeding and go to my family doctor.

Last time it happened, it cost me $350.00 to get stitched up, instead of "hours" waiting in an ER and then getting a "thousands of dollars" bill!

SR

Looking4new · Mar 3, 2016

The last time my carelessness cost me 5 stitches in my foot, I went to the hospital the next day and caught all kinds of **** for not going when it happened. (I was too drunk to drive anywhere and told them so).

jerrybob · Mar 4, 2016

ovrszd said:
With a rusty nail.

And a shoelace.

PhysAssist · Mar 4, 2016

wawajake said:
Yes I hear you about infection but I had 8 (amoxilan(penicillin) pills left over from impacted tooth a few months ago so I self administered them over the three days after.......smile .....my "lives far away" daughter , being a nurse, was not impressed ........hey I don't throw anything away that's why the garage is so full! ...........it was 19 days ago so I think the risk of head amputation (smile) is over..

Howdy Jake,

I was reading down the page getting ready to congratulate you on your new club membership (one of my main roles as a charter member), and also on choosing the proper course of treatment, even though the reasons you gave- impatience, stubbornness and cheapness weren't really the rational approach, I try to get people to employ.

So, anyway, up until the point where you started to think that your Google search equalled my medical degree, you were doing pretty good.

However, the only thing that you that likely accomplished with your self-medicating was to work on creating some more drug resistant bacteria.

Yup, that's where they come from- both not finishing a full prescribed course of medicine, and/or taking inadequate and unneeded partial courses of it.

In truth, scalp and other head lacerations (cuts) most often don't get infected even if they're quite contaminated or dirty mainly for the same reason that they are so gory and bleed out of proportion to their size and depth- the brain needs a lot of blood, so the tissue around it (including both the face and scalp) is very vascular (has lots and lots of blood vessels) so not only does the freely flowing blood wash the wound out pretty well, the continued copious blood supply around it brings lots of antibodies and white blood cells and other immune factors there to fight infection.

If you cut your hand or foot though, that can really be a whole nother story.

Sorry, but after a very long day alternating between having to tell some people that they don't need antibiotics for their viral infection, and trying to convince those on the other extreme that, yes, they need to go to the ER by ambulance to have their chest/abdominal/or other red flag pain worked up, I get a little testy when folks self-prescribe...

My bad.

Now, my soapbox retracted, I am proud to say Welcome to the "club", and I'm glad you're OK!!!

Thomas

Ed of all trades · Mar 4, 2016

Years ago I was cutting a tree and a limb that was lodged in the top fell out and hit me in the head. Wife said I went over backwards and head butted another tree, just for good measure I suppose. I was rolling on the ground when I was aware of anything. I got up and started to go back to work and she said, Don't you think you should do something about the bleeding. I put my hand on my head and took it back down to see if there was blood on it and I saw a stream of blood breaking up into drops in front of my forehead. When I got to the Dr he said one stitch would do but that he would put in two. If I had known that I would have stayed home.
Be careful that you don't have a concussion. They can cause problems for you for a while. A week later I had a hard time putting a battery in my wife's car, I felt like I was going to pass put. Glad you are doing well. You might have done the best thing by not going to the Dr. Back in 2013 the number of people killed by their doctors was reported to be 440,000 and the number has been growing at a high rate. And God only knows haw many weren't reported. So you might have saved your life by staying home. Ed