I carefully peeled off the band-aids (the cut had stopped bleeding), I gingerly wiped the fingertip clean with sterile gauze and alcohol (the two cut parts of fingertip flesh stayed together) then liberally painted the cut with three coats of the liquid bandage letting the liquid bandage dry between coats, finally I applied two Band-Aids, one over the top front to back and another around the finger.
The cut was a "clean" one, no jagged edges, so a half hour to forty-five minutes after cutting myself and returning from CVS I set to work. This time I went another route, once the cut was cleaned using anti-bacterial soap and water then alcohol, coated with antibiotic cream, and bandaged I went out and hit the CVS picking up their generic/store brand CVS Health Liquid Bandage (with brush). I had fingertip stitches before (1985), the local anesthesia hurt worse than the two stitches so after the four shots for the index finger which didn't fully numb the fingertip and two stitches I had them stitch the other three fingertips, two stitches per finger without the anesthesia (2 stitches per fingertip require 4 shots of local anesthesia for each finger). Needless to say I was pissed when I realized what I did as it was totally avoidable, I should've been using scissors rather than a razor-sharp lockback knife to open a bag of Hershey's Kisses before sitting down to play guitar.Ī trip to the Emergency Room was considered but with the flu rampant, waiting time, and co-pay I wasn't enthused about the prospects of a bill or worse getting sick (the coughing and sneezing would kill my already blown-out back) so I decided to take care of this one my own.Įven with local anesthesia fingertip stitches are PAINFUL, this cut would've required 3-4 of them.
The other night (approx 10:30pm) I sliced open the index finger of my left (fretting) hand, the cut is deep (not to the bone), nearly straight down on the tip, partly offset opposite the nail and the width of the finger, it's quite nasty. As some here know I've spent over three decades in a bus garage as a mechanic (now working foreman) and over the years suffered many injuries some of which required getting stitches due to the type of work/nature of injury and have had carpal tunnel surgery to repair nerve damage in my left hand after being struck by a car as a pedestrian in addition to broken bones/fractures and spinal injections/nerve severing/lower back surgery.
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