Thread: One for the fridgies

Originally Posted by 4bee

Gav, you'd be just the bloke to confirm or deny this story.


It was "believed" that an Oxy Acet flame Burn would never heal, I suppose because of the depth & damage of the burn.


True/False?





Rick, you will always be special to me.

As Rick said - False. Was a third degree burn that took everything off the back of my knuckle - was brazing 2 ingots of cast iron together and had a large tip absolutely blazing so couldn’t have got it much more wrong that I managed. Wasn’t actually that painful when I first did it, think I was in shock though. Pain started when they stuck 4 needles of local anaesthetic in my thumb so they could cut the burned tissue away. (As an aside I’ve had 4 needles in the back of both thumbs but that’s a story for another time - and also not something I’d recommend) After that and the local wore off it hurt for around 2 weeks solid and took quite a while to heal - they thought a skin graft may be needed but it closed over after around 4 weeks and healed well. You’d never really know now - the back of my knuckle is a lot shinier than my other one and doesn’t grow hair on the back like my other one but has basically healed 100% with no long term issues other than me being quite a bit more careful with the flame afterwards.

Was back at Welding School the next day all bandaged up and passed the course though so that’s the main thing.

But, overall my review is 1 out of 10 - Can’t recommend it. 🤣

Originally Posted by Homestar

As Rick said - False. Was a third degree burn that took everything off the back of my knuckle - was brazing 2 ingots of cast iron together and had a large tip absolutely blazing so couldn’t have got it much more wrong that I managed. Wasn’t actually that painful when I first did it, think I was in shock though. Pain started when they stuck 4 needles of local anaesthetic in my thumb so they could cut the burned tissue away. (As an aside I’ve had 4 needles in the back of both thumbs but that’s a story for another time - and also not something I’d recommend) After that and the local wore off it hurt for around 2 weeks solid and took quite a while to heal - they thought a skin graft may be needed but it closed over after around 4 weeks and healed well. You’d never really know now - the back of my knuckle is a lot shinier than my other one and doesn’t grow hair on the back like my other one but has basically healed 100% with no long term issues other than me being quite a bit more careful with the flame afterwards.

Was back at Welding School the next day all bandaged up and passed the course though so that’s the main thing.

But, overall my review is 1 out of 10 - Can’t recommend it. 🤣

Thanks Gav & Rick. The nays have it.

Originally Posted by 4bee

One wonders whether the "Thick Accent" was Vodka induced if you get my drift, hence the many attempts to get the needle in.

Hahaha, naa, he hadn't been drinking, was just trying to do the right thing, but thumbs have no bloody flesh to jab in the side at the knuckle.

Originally Posted by rick130

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.....................

Not as big a wound to my thumb, but heaps of sauce from a nic from a 1mm blade in a 4" grinder just in the right (wrong ) place.

Yes I have first aid ticket, yes I know how it works, yes I come from a medical parentage.

Could I stop it bleeding enough to get in the RRC without making a mess? Tried everything.

Not for 2 hours, even with all the stop bleeding measures and a towel around it.

Then it stopped and I thought that's good enough for me.

Can still see the scar and it's lucky I didn't take out the tendon on top as well.

DL

Originally Posted by 350RRC

Not as big a wound to my thumb, but heaps of sauce from a nic from a 1mm blade in a 4" grinder just in the right (wrong ) place.

Yes I have first aid ticket, yes I know how it works, yes I come from a medical parentage.

Could I stop it bleeding enough to get in the RRC without making a mess? Tried everything.

Not for 2 hours, even with all the stop bleeding measures and a towel around it.

Then it stopped and I thought that's good enough for me.

Can still see the scar and it's lucky I didn't take out the tendon on top as well.

DL

Bloody Hell, we are an accident prone lot here ain't we?

If you had been on blood thinners you probably would have been in a worse mess &

I assume you thought of raising your mitt skywards for a long while?

If that didn't work then you were obviously up for a bit of the olde Bloodletting.

Originally Posted by rick130

Hahaha, naa, he hadn't been drinking, was just trying to do the right thing, but thumbs have no bloody flesh to jab in the side at the knuckle.

Maybe he should have knocked you out with an Equine Anaesthetic in the arse. You'd probably still be asleep.

Originally Posted by 350RRC

Not as big a wound to my thumb, but heaps of sauce from a nic from a 1mm blade in a 4" grinder just in the right (wrong ) place.

Yes I have first aid ticket, yes I know how it works, yes I come from a medical parentage.

Could I stop it bleeding enough to get in the RRC without making a mess? Tried everything.

Not for 2 hours, even with all the stop bleeding measures and a towel around it.

Then it stopped and I thought that's good enough for me.

Can still see the scar and it's lucky I didn't take out the tendon on top as well.

DL

I cut a nerve, still only sort of pins and needles/not much feeling up one side of my thumb.

When we do ****, we do it well!

had a fight with a post driver [I lost]. All wrapped up in towels and head to doctors surgery
, told them at reception i had cut my finger off and told to take a seat in the waiting room, so I unwrapped the towels and they change their mind real quick. 40 stiches to piece it together again and the doc reckoned it would have to come off. To this day that finger gives me less grief than the rest of them
cheers
blaze
ps
you don't want needles in the big toe either