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I smashed my finger on Sunday - (got it caught in the gears of a woodchipper - wasn't running though, but still - mmmpain.)

So blood, blood .. ow .. yeah, that's all over with, except that my fingernail is sure to fall off in the next few weeks..

It's the crushing of the finger that still hurts. And it's still tingly-numb. After 5 days, is it normal for it to still be numb? (I still have feeling in it, but it's a weird, tingly feeling.) lil bit swollen too. But it feels a little better every day.

Maybe you're not a doctor, but you play one on the internet?

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

1-800-DOCTORB

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you put ice on it? Or maybe tobasco sauce?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Go get it checked out, you have more sense than this!

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Then again, you post on ILX...

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, perhaps you should consult a proper doctor. Unless you're one of those tough guys who'd rather suffer in silence than go see the doctor.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd say that you should return to the wood chipper and let it finish the job, but that's my answer for everything.

Other than that; tylenol, ice and the amazing regenerative properties of the human body is all I've got.

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe some lemon juice?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

You're also a Canadian = better health care = NO EXCUSE NOT TO GET IT LOOKED AT.

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Numb is "normal" only if it is very swollen. If it is still very swollen after 5 days, go to the doctor. If the skins is red and angry you may have an infection. Go get an X-ray of it. They will give you something for pain, and make a little splint if it needs it. If blood is pressing under the nail they will drain it and that will take care of a lot of the pain.

If you can't get to a doctor, here's what you can do to relieve the swelling caused by blood under the nail (if that is indeed a problem): heat the end of a straightened paperclip in a flame and use it to carefully make a hole in the top of the nail. Don't go down too far and burn the nailbed. Since the nail is coming off anyway, it won't matter. Drain the blood wash, put on an anti-bacterial cream and bandage it. Wait for gangrene to set in because you wouldn't go get a proper X-ray.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Wasabi?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not red - it doesn't seem to be infected. There is no blood under the nail because the nail split, so all the blood leaked out..

I've been soaking it in cold epsom salt solution which has helped to clean it & maybe reduce the swelling ..

The numbness - it kind of feels like I have dried glue on my finger or something .. I think it's just a really really fucking deep bruise & it should get better over time. I really can't get to a doctorb, but I'll certainly keep an eye on it.

Imagine slamming your finger in a door (really hard) .. it doesn't seem bad enough to see a doctor over. And it doesn't really hurt anymore - it just feels weird..

And I can always count on Dan for a samrtass answer .. and anyone on ILE to provide a simpsons reference ...

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 17 June 2004 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I suggest the Moises Alou method of hand therapy.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 17 June 2004 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know anything about baseball, so you lost me .. but I see that Moises & I were born 12 days apart & we're the same height. Also his salary is exactly not the same as mine.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 17 June 2004 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

ask gygax! about it sometime.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 17 June 2004 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

hahaha
(psst he wants you to piss on your hands!)(it's a lil fetish stence has)

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

my fetish? sure, that's why gygax! brought it up.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh I'm just "anyone."

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i didn't bring anything up you sassafrass!!! stop perving out on moises alou and lauren's friends!!!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't find a single post on ILB about Alou by ######@#####stud###.com.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

whoops, shit, shouldn't have posted your email dude.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

leee changes his email every 3 seconds.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I still posted a moderation request, don't want the wrath of leeeee.

So anyway, where's that original Alou pee pee post so we can enlighten dave225?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I mistope my email, this is the right one.

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

okay, found it, and guess who the pee pee-bringing-up culprit is?

so is it true that Moises pees on his hands?!??
-- oops, May 21st, 2004.

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He certainly hasn't denied it.
And after getting three blisters at the batting cages last night, I might give it a try myself.

-- boldbury, May 21st, 2004.

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Vlad doesn't wear gloves either.
-- Leeefuse 73, May 21st, 2004.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

my name is cleared.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 17 June 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

But stence is casting aspersions in my direction!

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 17 June 2004 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Leee you are safe. It's the oops/boldbury pee brigade we gotta worry about.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 17 June 2004 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, you were clearing my name. Giving it a shower, you could say.

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 17 June 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

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