Knife Cuts (Accidental)

[Flattop5]

The Golfball Story

I was about 12 years old. I had just gotten a new Case hunting knife for my birthday [1].

I had heard about rubber balls, wrapped with miles of rubber "string", being inside of golfballs. So I just had to cut a golfball open to check it out. I took the little ball outside and sat on the curb to begin whittling.

Yes, you can guess what happened next! I had whittled about half-way to the center of the golfball, when...slice! I cut my left middle finger badly, at the base of it where it meets the hand. Blood was seriously dripping from my finger as I ran into my house, yelling loudly. My dad drove me to the hospital and I had to get 7 stitches in my finger. Not fun. I still have the scar.

Please add your own stories of getting cut by accident.

[1] the knife looked exactly like this one:

[arjay]

Same age. A friend and his brother had a clubhouse they had built from shipping crates that was three “stories” tall.Scott and I had ditched Kent and were sitting in the top level on the trap door when Ken poked a hunting knife up through tha gap. I got the bright idea to hit it with a pair of channel locks and bend it over..I missed!My first stitches. I have a scar running most of the length of my forefinger.Boy was their mom mad lol

[VaTom]

Worst finger cut I had was about 30 years (I was an adult) and was using one of those Rapala Filet knives while pier fishing at North Myrtle Beach, SC. Don't remember what I was doing, drove myself to emergency room with finger wrapped in towel. A number of stitches to close the wound. Those filet knives are sharp!!

[arjay]

My worst was catching my right thumb in a skilsaw.Cut a nice kerf out of the pad.

[30-30remchester]

Those of us that use sharp tools daily, cuts are common and just part of the job. Right now I have 17 cuts on my forearms and hands from putting plugs in my pickup. Of all the cuts and impaling's that are so common, the only 2 I can recall is being impaled to the hilt by a Buck 110 and the other is when I tried to cut off a fan belt from a vehicle as the engine was turning. If the cut had been any worse, I would have had my friends pick my nose from then on.

[dwh]

I was about the same age maybe 10 or 11. I had won a 3in folder at the county fair. That I could only use when I was camping or fishing. Well that lasted about 30 seconds before it’s was in my pocket constantly. Curiosity got the better of me one day and I just had to find out what was in the middle of a baseball. In the process of cutting thru the laces. The knife slips and get 4 stitches in my left index finger. I’m a slow learner because I’ve had 27 stitches in that finger. Not all from knives. I still have the knife and the scars.

[Breakaway500]

I have never injured myself with a firearms discharge. I have snapped a bolt or two on a thumb,though.

Knives...I am wearing two bandages as I type this due to knife cuts. I fear a knife 1000 times more than any firearm..especially if I am using it..

[Inusuit]

When I was growing up, mom said a new knife wasn't really mine until I cut myself with it.

Only cut that got stitches, although others perhaps should have been (no insurance in those days), was a Case folding hunter that went shut on my finger while I was trying to dig a .38 bullet out of a fence post.

[30-30remchester]

As I stated in earlier reply I have had a least a thousand cuts. Just my lifestyle. The only cut I received that HURT and hurt for years afterwards is when my thumb was folded downward to my palm, when I has a circular saw cut through both bone and flesh of my thumb knuckle. The kerf was still visible through the blood and meat scrapes. I cried down both pantlegs. For years afterwards there was still a dull ache. Several broken bones, and knocked out teeth did not hurt as bad as the day I got my thumbnail caught between the tool rest and grinding wheel of a bench grinder. My thumbnails was burned and ground away as well as the flesh under the nail. Hurt too bad to cuss.

[Echo40]

Although my body is covered in various scars from a number of accidents/incidents, fortunately none of them are from knife wounds or anything quite so drastic. In fact, most of my scars don't even merit a story, as they can be summed up as simply; "I slipped/tripped and fell" for the most part, with the only variation being what I slipped on or tripped over and what I landed on.

Fortunately, I've always been extremely careful with knives since I've gotten some pretty ghastly scars from things that were less sharp/pointy, and didn't want to know what an accidental knife wound might look like when otherwise mundane accidents involving broken glass had left me needing stitches.
Sure, I've cut myself before, but only minor little cuts on my fingers which aren't worthy of mentioning. Boo-boos, as it were.

The closest thing to a real knife wound that I ever got was a shaving accident in which I got distracted by a commotion downstairs, slipped with the razor, and cut my upper lip open, leaving behind a little scar across my upper lip. Still, no big deal, didn't need stitches or anything.

[dave1918a2]

I think I got more cuts and bled more after I purchased a karambit knife. Watched a few videos on how to present them and ended up buying 2 practice karambits amde out of plastic and very dull. Saved the price on bandaids alone.

[Rustyt1953]

Early on I learned to keep super glue nearby.

[Marshwheeling]

The most recent cut that required attention came while attempting to re-sheathe a Becker BK14 in a horizontal cross-draw rig worn at 11:00. In that location, the sheath is out of sight over the “event horizon”, so I was trying to guide the blade by feel, and took a pretty good gouge out of my left index finger. It bled copiously, and for quite a while.
The EDC cimeter by David Mary also bit me.
A doc probably would have given a stitch or two. I made do with some Gorilla tape until I could find a stout Band-Aid.
I must cut myself on knives two or three times a year, but never bad enough to require the emergency room. So far.

[brucev]

Knives! Like 'em! And ... most of the time ... knives like me! Have had three people decided they wanted to do some cutting on me with a knife ... one fellow used two. Happily none of them knew what they were doing ... at least they knew less than I did ... which gave me the necessary advantage to come out of the little affairs w/ no cuts.

Have had a knife of one sort or another since 1966. Cutting tent pegs, fire starter sticks, ropes, etc., there have been times when I got a little knick, etc. The first time I ever carefully whittled a nice fire-starter, I cut my knee (failed to consider what would be the outcome using my knee as a base for the cutting). Fortunately I was using a exceptionally sharp knife which I was controlling. As soon as it bit ... I stopped. Cut my BSA uniform pants a bit. Cut the skin of my knee but a bandaid took care of that. That is the first and in all honesty the only time I can think of when I've cut myself w/ a knife.

Now ... if anyone wishes to discuss the first time or last time they got stuck with a knife or stuck themselves with a knife ... I'll be glad to participate. Sincerely. bruce.

[Ol' Drover]

My wife and I came in from the lease with five deer to cut up and package so I was working in a hurry. I was using a handy little plastic knife sharpener with crossed carbide sticks to keep my butcher knife sharp. It had a plastic guard to keep your thumb off the blade.

My hands were slick with blood and my thumb slipped off the guard just as I started a stroke and I ran the tip of my thumb all the way down the 10" blade. I held it up to see the damage and, before the blood started, it looked like one of those old Buckhorn rifle sights.

The flesh healed, eventually, but I had a permanent split half-way down the nail that lasted 20 years.

[hittman77]

Oh this was a classic stupid trick from just a few years ago. Had nothing to do with a knife.

I needed to put some model car paint on the front site of an old revolver. You know, those little glass bottles of “Testor” (sp?) brand.

Lid was stuck … maybe because I didnt clean the jar before I stuck it back on. So ….. out come the pliers to get extras good leverage. Who’d a thunk you could twist the neck off that glass jar so easily? When the glass gave way I drug the jagged edge down the outside of my index finger. Blood spewing …. Little pieces of glass everywhere …. Including the cut …. Paint slung all over the work bench and wall and my shirt and in the cut.

Tried to call the wife but she had no cell service where she was shopping with our daughter and grand daughter. Drove myself to the ER. Naturally, they needed to dig out the glass and clean out the paint before the stitches came … (ouch!!).

While getting stitches my cell is blowing up ….. wife has made it home …… nobody there but she claims it looked like a drive-by shooting happened in the workshop and basement sink. Obviously I was in trouble 1. For the cut and 2. For not calling her. LOL

[crazyphil]

My younger brother was chopping wood in the back yard, and I heard him
yell in pain. I ran out to where he was. He had chopped a finger off. Not
totally off, but it was hanging by a little bit of flesh and skin.
I bound it up as best I could to stop the bleeding and took him to the
hospital. The doctor put it back together and bound it up. I was surprised
when it turned out good as new.

[jimmyj]

In the past when I thought that I was 10 feet tall and bullet proof, I responded to a "Man With a Knife" call. I arrived and detected screaming and shouting inside the residence. Backup was several minutes away. I made the decision to go it alone. Entering the residence after anouning myself I was charged by an intoxicated man armed with a large butcher knife. During the ensuring fight I lost my grip on his knife hand and received a serious cut on the forehead. The backup officers dragged the suspect outside and handcuffed him. First aid was applied to my "War Wound" and several stiches were applied at the E.R. Later the scar was covered up by wrinkles and did not detract from my good looks.

[jbtrucker]

Few months ago almost cut top of knuckle off left hand with very sharp Spyderco . I couldn't stop the bleeding had to go to Clinic and have very sticky tabs applied . Now when make a fist have a tall knuckle from scar tissue.

[Karnivore]

Me and my hunting buddy were loading 4-wheelers on the trailer to head to Georgia. He had some brand new ratchet straps in clamshell packaging. Using his razor sharp Benchmade AFCK, he started to try to free the straps from the vault-like package. Ended up running the tip nearly through his hand at the base of his left thumb, severing the tendons that allow you to pick up items.

Hunting trip went on hold for that weekend as he went to the ER. Ended up with several surgeries to get back most of the use of his thumb.

He learned a hard lesson that day...

[Rustyt1953]

Originally Posted by arjay

My worst was catching my right thumb in a skilsaw.Cut a nice kerf out of the pad.

Glad it wasn't worse.

[Golddollar]

This involves the orange Bucklite knife that I pictured with the $2 bill in the "because I like it Knife" thread. We were in northern Quebec having the annual family fishing trip and I was trying to slice a bagel with that knife. Somehow the knife slipped and I put a serious cut in my left pinkie. So there we were, up on the lake in camp, miles from the nearest paved road and a good 45 minutes away from the nearest town that we thought would have medical facilities. But amazingly, everything came together and we didn't have to make any kind of visit to the emergency room. One of my uncles brought along a bottle of medicinal turpentine. He poured some turpentine on my finger to sterilze the cut. Then I remembered something that I might have read in National Geographic about how the Indians in South America used cayenne pepper as an astringent to heal cuts. I had planned to make chili during the week so I had a can of cayenne pepper handy and poured the pepper on the cut. We bandaged the cut and the cayenne pepper crusted over it. The bleeding was stopped and we didn't have to go to emergency room.

By chance, I had a scheduled doctor appointment right after we got back from Quebec. I told this story to my doctor and his comment was, "You guys did pretty good with your backwoods medicine."

I still have the knife and now I have my own bottle of medicinal turpentine in the bathroom. I also now have a plastic shield for slicing bagels in.

[STCM(SW)]

Won't go into details, Both rules are never be in a hurry with a sharp knife and always cut away from you.....
Now, how would I know that.....

[THE PILGRIM]

I like to give Knives to Kids. Boys mostly.
Only with their Mother’s approval!
OK! Sometimes just with the Dad’s!
I always tell them there’s two significant things to consider here-
Don’t Lose this Knife.
And don’t cut yourself!

[lihpster]

Me and my father were fishing one of the lakes in the moutains. We each had an 8' boat. It was raining buckets. Just a deluge. No fish of course. Well, I have to go download some corn. Row all the way back to the truck and the TP is locked inside. I don't have a key. OK. No problems. I'll use leaves. We're in a fir forest. No "leaves" to speak of. OK, fir needles then. I get out my knife and cut some small needle covered twigs. Then I reach back and wipe. With the hand that's still holding the knife! Sliced my cheek open. Now, I've got a dirty, bleeding ***. Set the knife down and finish wiping as best I could. Pull up my pants and back to the boat. Row all the way across the lake where my dad is. Tell him the situation and ask him to follow me back to the truck as I can't see how bad I've cut myself. So we row back. My father is in an inflatable raft. Did I mention it was also windy as well as pouring rain. He made it about halfway back, cursing and struggling and finally beached the raft and walked back to the truck. Using the truck for cover I drop trou and moon my father. He said it didn't look to bad. About 3" long and not too deep. Also, unbeknownst to me, there was newspaper in the back of the truck in his fire kit. Packed my drawers with newspaper and went back to fishing. Still got a scar 20 years later.
Oh, and from that point on, Clear Lake has been referred to, in my house, as Cutbutt Lake.

[GSP Fan]

I was deer hunting in Wyoming and had shot my buck. I was positive he was dead. I grabbed a back leg to get it out of the way and as soon as my knife pierced his flesh he gave a kick. That knife came back across my thumb. I said a few curse words wrapped my thumb with a handkerchief and finished the job. Back at camp I was celebrating with adult beverages as I had used my little brothers rifle and he had left us just two months prior to this.

When my buddy came and took one look at the thumb and it was off to the ER in Newcastle. A tetanus shot and 10 stiches (no pain killer doc said I was already pickeled) and we were done. I still have the scar. The cut went almost to the bone. That was almost 40 years ago and I remember it like yesterday.

[Ed Fowler]

About age 5, helping my grandmother peel potatoes. She said don't cut toward your self. I did and cut myself real well. Tried to hide it but can't hide blood in potatoes. She just taped the cut shut and bandaged it. That was 78 years ago!

[mikerjf]

One year at Christmas my mother gave dad and both of us boys each our own Leatherman... but within two weeks, all three of us had cut ourselves with it.

[AlHunt]

Pretty harrowing stories here ...

The best I've got is about 50 years ago a folding knife (Barlow?) folded shut on my right index finger. I still have a lump near the knuckle.

Any folding knives I have are now lockers.

[Squarebutt]

Bunch of us were helping a buddy clear a building lot for his new house on a rainy Sunday afternoon. He got careless with a chain saw and it cut into his hand between thumb and forefinger. Off to the ER, where he happened to get the foremost neurosurgeon in the valley doing a rare Sunday shift. The doc reattached nerves and tendons for a few hours, saving Steve's photography career.
The following Sunday he managed to slice his knee open with a machete. Same doc at the ER was so disgusted he wouldn't give him any anesthetic while he stitched him up. Being the empathetic friends we were, we ribbed him for a couple of years.

[Muss Muggins]

Pretty sure I've cut myself with every knife I've ever carried. Nothing as spectacular as the tales related here. I count my blessings . . .

[WuzzFuzz]

I'll soon find out who some of the old timers are here, when they admit to the puncture wounds and cuts they got as a kid playing Mumbley Peg.

Not a good idea to play with tenny shoes, or flip the knife off of the fore arm, or try doing the point on the head and flipping it off..(That had to be the most stupid throw)., throwing it to see how close you could get it to your foot.....
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Oh the stupid things we did with a knife when we were young.

You're supposed to whittle AWAY from you..not towards you...Dumb...

Or after you've done the super duper knife sharpening with a whet stone and it's supposed to cut a piece of paper, so you have to test how sharp it is by trying it with your thumb...Dumb..


Maybe there was a reason the toy stores sold those rubber knives to little kids.

But, some like me were slow learners around knives..I could not even be trusted to peel potatoes with a paring knife.

But I did go to Hog Heaven when I got my uncles K Bar, when I was around 11 or so. I was in fat city!!!!!!

I have more, but you get the idea, me and knives are like some of the girl friends I've had over the years...they would be best left alone.



WuzzFuzz

[lihpster]

Originally Posted by WuzzFuzz

throwing it to see how close you could get it to your foot.....
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Oh the stupid things we did with a knife when we were young.


Wuzz Fuzz

Was at a New Year's Eve party one time where the drinking had reached Herculean levels, and therefore the thinking had reched Gumpian levels. I was standing and talking to a friend when another of my buddies asks to borrow my knife. I'm not sure what he needs to cut but all my friends know I'm the guy with the SHARP knife. I hand it over and turn back to my conversation. Suddenly, in mid-sentence, I get a premonition of BAD THINGS about to happen. I turn around and in the kitchen, 2 of my friends are facing each other with their left feet placed in front of them. Both of them are holding knives. Before I can blink, one of them sinks his knife into the floor about 2" from the other's foot. "Beat that!" At this point I still don't know what the game is. Apparently, it was who could stick the knife closest to the other guys foot. The guy I loaned my very sharp knife to apparently didn't understand the rules either as he rears back and sinks the knife in the floor. Right through the middle of the other guy's foot. We're all just staring at it in amazement. He pinned that foot right to the floor. As we watch, suddenly blood starts bubbling up out of his white sneakers. I pulled the knife out, with some difficulty, I might add, and freed his foot. They took him into the bathroom and stopped the bleeding. Then they bandaged it and taped it and back to the party we go. That was just one of several incidents that night and nowhere near the most dramatic.

[diyj98]

I was going through some Case XX knives from my gun safe just last week. I had opened one to examine the blade and of the knife slipped out of my hands. Of course my natural reaction was to grab the knife before it hit the ground. The knife never hit the ground, but I got a nasty little slice in one of my fingers.

[TX-Dennis]

I've cut myself with knives, of course, but nothing requiring medical attention. I remember this one time, though.

I was about five years old. Dad had roofed a barn with corrugated sheet metal. Afterward he decided the overhang was too big, so he was trimming the sheet metal in narrow strips about four inches wide. He let them fall to he ground with the idea of picking them up later. I, of course, had other ideas. What fun it was to pick up those strips and throw them over the fence. I was having the time of my life until one sliced my right index finger wide open from stem to stern. I remember seeing the bone and screaming like I'd been killed. The finger was bundled up in a rag and off to the hospital we went. Five stitches is a lot in a five year old's tiny finger, but that's what it took to close the wound. That finger is still a funny shape, and I still have the scar.

[dwh]

Originally Posted by WuzzFuzz

I'll soon find out who some of the old timers are here, when they admit to the puncture wounds and cuts they got as a kid playing Mumbley Peg.

Not a good idea to play with tenny shoes, or flip the knife off of the fore arm, or try doing the point on the head and flipping it off..(That had to be the most stupid throw)., throwing it to see how close you could get it to your foot.....
\
Oh the stupid things we did with a knife when we were young.

You're supposed to whittle AWAY from you..not towards you...Dumb...

Or after you've done the super duper knife sharpening with a whet stone and it's supposed to cut a piece of paper, so you have to test how sharp it is by trying it with your thumb...Dumb..


Maybe there was a reason the toy stores sold those rubber knives to little kids.

But, some like me were slow learners around knives..I could not even be trusted to peel potatoes with a paring knife.

But I did go to Hog Heaven when I got my uncles K Bar, when I was around 11 or so. I was in fat city!!!!!!

I have more, but you get the idea, me and knives are like some of the girl friends I've had over the years...they would be best left alone.



WuzzFuzz

My mom showed my bubbies and I how to play I’ll never forget what she said! Remember just flip the knife just hard enough to stick in the ground. Mom must have found out the hard way.

[Rustyt1953]

I learned not to play mumbley peg while wearing Chuck Taylors.

[Popeye21]

When I was about 12 years old I was just learning how to sharpen a knife. I had my old timer pocket knife sharp and ready to go i thought. While goofing around with it, the knife folded and cut my index finger into the finger nail and to the first joint. I had really laid my finger open! This was in the 70's and our family did not run to the ER for just anything. I cleaned the cut as best I could and wrapped it up, no stiches.

[robertrwalsh]

A few years back I was in my office. I had just finished cutting the packaging off of some printer ink and put my short, heavy pocket knife down on the desk top while I put the ink in the printer. I was wearing house slippers and not shoes. I knocked the knife off of the desk and it fell point down into the top of my foot, just nicking one of the large veins in the top of my foot. The Dr. was vastly amused.

[jeffrefrig]

I'm really surprised I have never been cut by a knife enough to earn stitches, nor have I ever broken any (of my own) bones. But, I was in the ER 3 times for stitches before I was 4 years old, some more from wrecking my van or other stupid things. Lots of scars on my forearms from burns while brazing or soldering or working on hot boilers; enough to make me look like an ex-junky with track mark scars. That being said, I must now take extra precaution when using any sharp object.
The scar I have on the right cheek that I got when I was less than 2 I tell people it's from a bar fight, broken beer bottle! For street cred, ya know?

[gwpercle]

Mom always said the Good Lord looked after children , fools and drunks .
Because although I have been a huge knife person since the time I can first remember ... make wooden knives when a kid ...my granfather was a Blacksmith and made knives , I would "help" him... I'm sitting here , three knives in my various pockets and I look at desk and see swiss army . Leatherman multi=tool and Big Cold Steel Long Hunter ...And I haven't even left the house ...
What I mean to say I love knives, handle them every day , sharpen one or two every day ... but never cut myself bad enough to require a stitch .
Sure I've nicked fingers but nothing a band-aide wouldn't take care of ...
that's just strange ... I never thought about it until I started reading all these post ... Mom must be right ... The Good Lord surely looks after children and fools ... nothing else explains it !!!
Gary

[Chukar60]

I have cut myself, impaled myself and almost took my hand off in a miter saw once. The miter saw was thwarted by a very tough Swiss Army watch which was sacrificed but it saved my hand.
Years ago while elk hunting with a friend, we were having no luck with elk but spotted two whitetail bucks across a drainage from us. We ended up shooting both. While we were skinning his buck I had him holding one of the front legs and told him “whatever you do, don’t let go of that leg” which he did. My knife went into my left thumb and cut all the way to the nail from the side. Back at camp super glue and hydrogen peroxide took care of the mess. To this day some 25 years later that thumb nail is still boogered.

I always wanted a nice cutlery set. About 8 years ago for Christmas I bought myself a top end set of Wusthof cutlery. The place I bought it was a high brow kitchen specialty store. Alfonso or maybe his name was Johan informed me that because I had bought such a nice set I had qualified for a free class on using kitchen cutlery. I told him that I was and had been for a long time a certified redneck and knew how to use a knife.
Next morning while making breakfast the paring knife, aka scalpel went right into my thumb disproving my theory about my knife smarts. Doc at the immediate care place offered me his congratulations as it was the first time he had to put 6 stitches in a thumb.

[merl67]

Too many to tell. If you use sharp things long enough it's going to happen. As far as knives go keeping them sharp will go a long way in preventing accidents. The reason is you aren't forcing the knife to work. Also if you are tired you are more prone to accidents. Then there are the ones that make you scratch your head as you wonder how in the world did I do that. I seriously don't consider any job done unless I lose some blood, or skin in the process I'm almost superstitious about it lol

[CajunBass]

Cut fingers and such were so routine that I don't even remember them...except for one, and it really wasn't that bad.

I worked on a farm as a teen, and one fall day we were cutting the tomato plants off the stakes. We used what we called a "corn knife" sort of a thin machete I suppose. No hilt, just a wooden handle. My hand slipped on the handle and went up the blade, cutting my pointer finger at the knuckle joint. I don't remember it bleeding all that much so I just wrapped a rag around it and went back to work. I had a scar there for years but it looks like it's gone now.

[Muss Muggins]

Not me, but this one has always stuck in my craw . . .

Cards Lose Catcher For Playoffs - CBS News

Nobody has ever come out with what brand knife it was. Given the deep pockets and the significant wound, I've always thought it was a Randall, but some accounts have blamed a defective sheath, which I find unlikely for Randall . . .

[Old Corp]

Learned the hard way about the dangers of using a 'dull knife' to do a job intended for a sharp knife.

It had been a good deer season and I'd used my primary blade several times without sharpening it.
IIRC, did an all-day hunt and took a deer late afternoon.
As so many stories go, I was tired, wanted to get the deer skinned, dressed, quartered, on ice and go home.
Probably got careless, pushed where the blade didn't wanna go and cut the area of my left index-to-thumb area about to the bone.
Remember the deer blood and hair entering the wound felt like fire....

Was in the landowner's shop and used up a bunch of his shop towels and duct tape to stem bleeding. Also recall feeling a little woozy.

Did finish up and get home, feeling like a real D.A.
I put a good edge back on that same knife soon thereafter.

[turnerriver]

I wish I hadn’t read this.
50 years ago I was working at a bar and restaurant in Tallahassee. I grabbed a bar towel to wipe off a big chef’s knife and next thing I know I’ve gotten what felt like an electric shock. That was the knife hitting the bones on the last two fingers of my left hand. I looked down at the blood pouring out, looked up at the manager who had come over right away and I fainted.
The manager was a Marine and I was embarrassed when I came to. He explained that people often fainted after a shock like that, I didn’t explain that the 2 shots of vodka the bartender gave me might have played a role. I think I remember getting 11 stitches all told, 6 in one and 5 in the pinkie. I can still see them. I haven’t thought about that in a long time-I learned which way a knife’s edge should be facing and that a good chef’s knife is a sharp chef’s knife. And to stay sharp at work.
Regards,

[walkinghorse]

Lots of knife cut stories here. Told before, but many years ago sliced my right thumb open carving the Thanksgiving turkey, moral aways wipe your hands dry before carving! Too add to other stories the ER staff has seen it all, but when the doctor is female along with the nurses they seem to take some humorous glee in how many many men they will see during Thanksgiving day with similar injuries!

[soFlaNative]

Digging the meat out of a coconut shard with a Buck Lite I managed to punch into the middle of my left palm. I guess it went in a little bit and left a 3/8 - 7/16 inch of a scar. I cleaned it while it bled and wrapped it with no ill effects.

[Biggfoot44]

Always use the proper tool. Do NOT use the back of a knife blade for unintended mechanical purposes , even if you convince yourself it is a necessary roadside expediency .

Severed finger tendons can result , including repair surgery , and months of constant physical therapy .