Medical question

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2004-01-03 07:04am

I was doing something moronic (making a hole in a piece of metal while my finger was behind it) and I ended up stabbing the back of my finger. I wouldn't really care normally, except that it isn't bleeding. It made a little hole and the skin around it has swolen, but nothing leaks out. It's sort of freaking me out. Can anyone explain what's going on?

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2004-01-03 07:41am

how deep and how hot was the drill bit when it went in?

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2004-01-03 08:34am

Were you thinking cauterization from heat? That might have been it, except that it was an awl. As far as I can tell it hit the bone. I'm not exactly sure becase as soon as it happened I jerked my hand away.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-01-03 10:06am

You might have just poked a hole straight through, pushing vessels out of hte way. Awl's are thin, so I doubt you would bleed much unless you hit a vein or something. Try squeezing at the edges and see if blood wells up.

The Aliens · Post by **The Aliens** » 2004-01-03 11:31am

Watch for infection as well. And never put your hand behind something you're poking a hole in.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2004-01-03 11:44am

I don't know if you know this, but I am a funeral director. This is easy: Dead people don't bleed. Since you did not bleed, you are obviously dead.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2004-01-03 11:48am

You'll live, but as others have said, watch out for infection or tetanus, and no I don't know the symptoms of the latter. Working in a bike shop with no safety rules I've slipped wrenches and bashed my hand against sharp objects. Usually it draws blood, sometimes it doesn't, but I haven't had that swelling that you've mentioned before.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-01-03 12:30pm

A guy in my neighborhood decided that it would be fine to hold a block of wood to drill a hole through it. When the bit broke through, it punched through his hand and ripped the bone apart.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-01-03 12:53pm

StormTrooperTR889 wrote:A guy in my neighborhood decided that it would be fine to hold a block of wood to drill a hole through it. When the bit broke through, it punched through his hand and ripped the bone apart.

So he masturbates with his other hand now?

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2004-01-03 12:57pm

He could be ambidextrous...

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-01-03 01:01pm

He's married. And his wife is fairly attractive. And he was holding the block in his left hand with the drill in his right.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-01-03 01:04pm

Darth Wong wrote:
StormTrooperTR889 wrote:A guy in my neighborhood decided that it would be fine to hold a block of wood to drill a hole through it. When the bit broke through, it punched through his hand and ripped the bone apart.
So he masturbates with his other hand now?

Is it really sick that I thought it would just make it easier to masturbate with that hand now?

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-01-03 01:05pm

InnerBrat wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:
StormTrooperTR889 wrote:A guy in my neighborhood decided that it would be fine to hold a block of wood to drill a hole through it. When the bit broke through, it punched through his hand and ripped the bone apart.
So he masturbates with his other hand now?
Is it really sick that I thought it would just make it easier to masturbate with that hand now?

Nah...just shows how you so rightly belong here

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The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-01-03 01:06pm

InnerBrat wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:
StormTrooperTR889 wrote:A guy in my neighborhood decided that it would be fine to hold a block of wood to drill a hole through it. When the bit broke through, it punched through his hand and ripped the bone apart.
So he masturbates with his other hand now?
Is it really sick that I thought it would just make it easier to masturbate with that hand now?

Even if it heals perfectly, it wasn't a big bit. It's hole about the size of a pencil, although the internal damage was much more due to the fragmenting bone.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2004-01-03 01:10pm

StormTrooperTR889 wrote:
InnerBrat wrote:Is it really sick that I thought it would just make it easier to masturbate with that hand now?
Even if it heals perfectly, it wasn't a big bit. It's hole about the size of a pencil, although the internal damage was much more due to the fragmenting bone.

The expression "pencil-dick" comes to mind now for some reason...

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-01-03 01:13pm

aerius wrote:
StormTrooperTR889 wrote:
InnerBrat wrote:Is it really sick that I thought it would just make it easier to masturbate with that hand now?
Even if it heals perfectly, it wasn't a big bit. It's hole about the size of a pencil, although the internal damage was much more due to the fragmenting bone.
The expression "pencil-dick" comes to mind now for some reason...

I have NO knowledge to that. I just know about his hand; he came to my mom for wrapping before he went to the hospital (my mom is a nursing assistant, and will probably go back and finish once my brother and sister are in school).