Re: Tony's law on falling dishes


"Rich" <joshew@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"T" <nospam.kd1s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <PM000415713FCF63E7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
oyobo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
T wrote:
Don't try to catch a falling dish - or you'll end up like me with a
gash
in your left hand.


one of the worst cuts I suffered was from running up the stairs with an
armful
of dishes to be washed. I tripped right at the top and everything
smashed and
I bled like mad. Probably should have got stitches in a couple places
but I
hate stitches more than I hate bleeding like that.

The funny thing is I never minded getting stitches until I sliced my
left index finger while trying to repair a connector. Bled like all
hell, I finally sop up enough blood that I decide to hit the emergency
room. By the time I'd gotten there the blood had clotted nicely and the
bleeding stopped but the doctor decided to clean it out.

The worst part of that was the fact that he had to do a local
anesthetic, shot right between my index and middle fingers. Yow! That's
one tender area let me tell you.

That's called a "digital block," by the way.



Then he proceeded to rinse it out and the bleeding started anew. Four
stitches later and all was well.

He did the job properly. The clot you had would have interferred with
proper closure of the wound, and failure to irrigate a wound often results
in infection. An infection in a finger is serious. Blood circulation there
is not great, so infections can heal poorly, and they often result in loss
of the digit if not treated properly and promptly.

Your paragraph makes me wonder if the same applies to clotting in a pulled
tooth.

I was amazed when my last extraction I was asked to remain still for a very
long time so that it 'would form a clot,' and I was not allowed to spit for
24 hours so the clot would not be broken. The main instruction was that the
formation of a clot was necessary.

Dee Dee



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