One for the fridgies

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Originally Posted by BradC

Can vouch for that. Got out of a spa at a party and trod on a stubbie which dutifully broke under my foot. Tootled off to the local private hospital. A large syringe of local wasn't fun, but the language that came forth when they put the stitches into flesh which might as well not have had anesthetic made the nuns blush.

There was a young kid on the bed next door with his dad in for a similar thing, and I heard his dad say "watch how brave this man is, you can be like him". Poor kid must have go the shock of his life hearing that yell.

That was almost as fun as me taking the stitches out myself. Plastic stitches, so I drenched the foot in metho and gave it a scrub, snipped the stitches with my swiss army knife and pulled them out. The cut left a barb on the end which dragged metho right through each stitch hole and scraped all the way through. Now I let the docs do it.

And oxy burns do heal. It would also appear they hurt slightly less than taking your own stitches out.

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WUSS! Bloody hell Brad! I think stitches were designed to pull the knotted end, not t'uther way round, but you know that now don't you? [bigrolf]

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Originally Posted by 4bee

WUSS! Bloody hell Brad! I think stitches were designed to pull the knotted end, not t'uther way round, but you know that now don't you? [bigrolf]

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Was at a mates place the other day.
Rex,his young Kelpie,had recently had his nuts removed,and needed to go to the vet to have the stitches out,that afternoon.

No worries,i said,he held him,stanly knife out of the van,long nosed pliers,and out the 3 of them came.[thumbsupbig]

Off ran Rex,i don't think he has realised anything is missing[bighmmm]

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Originally Posted by 4bee

WUSS! Bloody hell Brad! I think stitches were designed to pull the knotted end, not t'uther way round, but you know that now don't you?

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I was once told if you are stupid you'd better get tough. I never got tough. Education hurt less.

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Originally Posted by scarry

Was at a mates place the other day.
Rex,his young Kelpie,had recently had his nuts removed,and needed to go to the vet to have the stitches out,that afternoon.

No worries,i said,he held him,stanly knife out of the van,long nosed pliers,and out the 3 of them came.[thumbsupbig]

Off ran Rex,i don't think he has realised anything is missing[bighmmm]

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Just think, if you had been a week or two earlier you could have done the removal of his nuts with your teeth like the old Yorkshire Vet on TV who removed a Horses nuts like that just recently.

Properly sterilised no doubt?

No, not your Clinical Theatre equipment, REX?:Rolling:

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Originally Posted by 4bee

Just think, if you had been a week or two earlier you could have done the removal of his nuts with your teeth like the old Yorkshire Vet on TV who removed a Horses nuts like that just recently.

Properly sterilised no doubt?

No, not your Clinical Theatre equipment, REX?:Rolling:

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Hmm,bugga that[bigsad][biggrin]

Many years ago,we used to do it to the merinos on the property.Off they came,toss them to the dogs,a bit of tar on the wound,off they went[biggrin]
Tails off as well,same thing.

Now we put this green ring over them,then they drop off.They recon soon we won't be able to do that as the animal people are onto it.
Will need to use anaesthetic.[bighmmm]
In fact doing the tails on the Dorpers will be banned soon,but has to still be done on the merinos,as they can get fly blown.

never had anything to do with doing it to cattle,but i can imagine the dogs would get well fed while it is getting done.....[thumbsupbig]

Just thinking,off topic we are going[bighmmm][biggrin]

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Originally Posted by scarry

Hmm,bugga that[bigsad][biggrin]

Many years ago,we used to do it to the merinos on the property.Off they came,toss them to the dogs,a bit of tar on the wound,off they went[biggrin]
Tails off as well,same thing.

Now we put this green ring over them,then they drop off.They recon soon we won't be able to do that as the animal people are onto it.
Will need to use anaesthetic.[bighmmm]
In fact doing the tails on the Dorpers will be banned soon,but has to still be done on the merinos,as they can get fly blown.

never had anything to do with doing it to cattle,but i can imagine the dogs would get well fed while it is getting done.....[thumbsupbig]

Just thinking,off topic we are going[bighmmm][biggrin]

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So informative too. Title is "General Chat" We are chatting, but is it your turn to be The General this week or mine? Hard to keep up sometimes.[bigrolf]

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Originally Posted by scarry

Was at a mates place the other day.
Rex,his young Kelpie,had recently had his nuts removed,and needed to go to the vet to have the stitches out,that afternoon.

No worries,i said,he held him,stanly knife out of the van,long nosed pliers,and out the 3 of them came.[thumbsupbig]

Off ran Rex,i don't think he has realised anything is missing[bighmmm]

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Yep, removed plenty of sutures from dogs, horses, me...[emoji16]

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Originally Posted by rick130

Yep, removed plenty of sutures from dogs, horses, me...[emoji16]

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Do you class yourself as Canine or Equine or maybe even summat in between?[bigrolf]

Quite a few years ago I was replacing a TXV on a large freezer room and when cutting the liquid line tried to snap it off clean so I didn't get any swarf inside.
I resulted in gashing my thumb and severing a blood vessel, the resulting fountain was pretty impressive. The cut went half way around it.

I actually used a proper bandage, had the girls I the office help bandage it up and continued fixing the job.

Several hours later I rocked up at a clinic still leaving a blood trail everywhere so I was queued jumped ahead of everyone else.
The doc took one look, and in a thick accent said he needed to anaesthetise the thumb.
I said don't bother, just stitch it up.
He insisted, I argued, he jabbed me, hitting the bone with the hyperdermic three times
There isn't much flesh on the thumb.
The resulting invective towards him would've made a bullocky blush. [emoji56]
"Just stitch the bloody thing!" [emoji87][emoji85][emoji86]

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Originally Posted by 4bee

Do you class yourself as Canine or Equine or maybe even summat in between?[bigrolf]

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Hahaha, what you do when you've lived on the land. Vets are exxy!
When I look back and see how much time I've spent doing things earning money (sometimes) other than fridgieing, even I'm a little surprised.