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1st "wound" for 2011


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Well injury lovers :P

Seems the 2000+MG daily antibiotics are doing there work, the swelling has gone down big timey, can almost bend thumb but not much

but the surface skin has died and was sort of loose stretched and n hangin', and as the postman arrived tday with my new

'Proffesional HFH DIY Surgery Kit', I had another poke and pull of the scab and dead skin and managed with the new tweezers and scalpel

(yup your right Jef - they is loverley :wub: and the scalpel super shapr :) ) to cut and remove some of the dead skin.

The infected area seems clean now, only the top part is a bit pusy & weepin', but the new skin exposed is somewhat sensitive :moglite:

so have been told to keep it covered and put the stuff on it hospital gave me till Monday for final check up, but its defo

settling down. Looks like the skin above the scab area is also going dead, so will have more practise ahead for skin trimmin' :lol:

For the sickos :

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Anyway, guess the message here for all is to remember than splinters are not just a whussy thing, we will all get them, but don't

underestimate the nastyness of a workshop / oils etc and infections can set in good and strong and quicker than you think :( and

there is a point that you should go and get them looked at :)

Hey ho

Nige

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Your wierd, :wacko::unsure: there's nothing remotely sexy about forceps.can't even imagine why you think they are either :rofl:

Oh but there is! Have you seen the the engineering that goes into these things? I got some with tips that are precision ground to less than 10 thou. Got self opening and closing ones. Got aluminium ones with replaceable tips and low pressue closing ones to prevent RSI(now got athritis in my finger joints). Seriously according to the Swiss manufacturers of my favourite ones, theres like 10 man hours go into making em. Tweezers are serious bits of, all be it small, engineering!!!

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and as the postman arrived tday with my new

'Proffesional HFH DIY Surgery Kit',

Errr Nige?...... Didn't this little episode teach you anything? DIY surgery is what caused you all this pain and anguish :rolleyes:

You clearly have an pain fetish. I think you may be able to find help with this in some specialist areas of tinternet :moglite:

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Hi Western, attached is a photo (not brilliant quality, but it was taken thro a microscope and CCTV system so the resolution ain't grand and I couldn't get em in the same focal plane) of why I find forceps sexy! The tips are next to a 0.5mm pure carbon rod (I use em to make microscalpels for dismantling water fleas)- now hows that for precision grinding!

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Oh but there is! Have you seen the the engineering that goes into these things? I got some with tips that are precision ground to less than 10 thou. Got self opening and closing ones. Got aluminium ones with replaceable tips and low pressue closing ones to prevent RSI(now got athritis in my finger joints). Seriously according to the Swiss manufacturers of my favourite ones, theres like 10 man hours go into making em. Tweezers are serious bits of, all be it small, engineering!!!

I don't doubt the engineering that goes into making them but still wouldn't call any tool sexy regardless of what it's used for.

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Hi Western, attached is a photo (not brilliant quality, but it was taken thro a microscope and CCTV system so the resolution ain't grand and I couldn't get em in the same focal plane) of why I find forceps sexy! The tips are next to a 0.5mm pure carbon rod (I use em to make microscalpels for dismantling water fleas)- now hows that for precision grinding!

the precision engineering that goes into producing these 'tools' is superb.

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The last time i had to go to A & E was at a party/BBQ/Foody type thing in the wilds of Worcestershire. I was asked by a friends wife to remove a super sharp knife from a blister pack. I slit all around the pack with a knife and once the new knife was free it celebrated it's liberation by leaping out of the pack, spinning around and removing 80% of the skin on the top of my index finger.

Ages waiting in Redditch A & E with a really rude receptionist would didn't give a Donald Duck.

After waiting 3 hours during which time I'd seen a triage Nurse and been given a temporary dressing, the snotty receptionist announce that the wait would be "5 hours or more" as 4 ambulances had just arrived.

When we go back to the camp, I directed my wife in re-dressing the wound with things from my own first aid kit and she made a grand job of it!

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a very lovely lady Dr peered at it. I explained what I had done so far, and

she sort of just looked at me

Probably similar to the look I get when I go to the local garage and say, "there is something wrong with my car, here's what I did to try and mend it...."

Cheers

Blippie

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