Fresh stitches in the middle of the night

[Drache]

I was just heading to bed last night just after midnight. I got into my room and started getting ready for bed when my foot started feeling very wet and very warm. I started pulling off my sock when the pain started coming as well. I look at the bottom of my foot and find a 3 inch long and about an inch deep gash and the flood is flowing! (find out later whatever cut me cut halfway through a damn vein).

Luckily my grandmother was visiting and just happened to be up in the middle of the night and together we started grabbing first aid kits that I use on the construction site. My grandma decides that she can't handle the amout of blood that's coming out of there and we get in the car for the 2 hour drive into town to get to the hospital.

Once there the doctor comes into the room, sees the amount of blood and asks me if I was shot. He starts peeling off the pressure bandages and tells me the cut is almost perfect, as if a medical scalpel made it. He finally gets it frozen and stitched up although it was still bleeding like crazy and throws a very large pressure bandage around my entire foot.

By the time I get back home it's 4:45am! My grandma and I look until 5:30 to find what cut me but we can't find ANYTHING that could cut me let along make such a very fine cut.

Then when I woke up this morning and silly me I put weight onto my right foot and damn near collapse from the pain. Last time I got stitches was for crashing my bike 11 years ago....

[BigBlackDodge]

Dayum..................sounds like a razor blade got lost on the floor?

You been doing lines?

Has to be something pretty large to cut so deep I would think?

BBD

[SirNik73]

alien abduction maybe

in the middle of the night you get a cut and its almost perfect, as if a medical scalpel made it ?

O well i hope you get on your feet again soon. and good luck on the mystery of how you cut your foot.

[ChargerRob]

What ever it was, you need to find it before someone else get cut.

[Drache]

We are thinknig that it was a scalpel blade that somehow didn't make it into the garbage. I use them when building my models.... 

[PocketThunder]

You live 2 hours from the nearest Doctor?  holy crap...

[Charger_Fan]

Dayum..................sounds like a razor blade got lost on the floor?

You been doing lines?

Glad you're ok, Drache.
Don't walk around in bare feet for a while.

[Drache]

Heh nope, not doing lines although I wish I had better painkillers than Tylenol! I'm walking around with the help of a car since I need to keep off the foot and it hurts like a sonofabitch when I put any pressure on it.

And yes I live 2 hours away from the nearest city in a small mining town. We don't even have police out here ;-)

[Old Moparz]

You still have another foot, so what the heck are you worried about?     

Good to hear you got your foot fixed, but I know I would probably have torn the house apart trying to find out what it was that cut me. Your "very warm & very wet" description reminds me of a story my friend told me. They were on a construction site, & since they were working in a wet area, they had to wear those big, yellow, rubber rain boots everyday. One morning they're working & my friend's co-worker was complaining his boot was leaking & his sock was wet. When they took a break for coffee, he decided to take off his boot to see where it was leaking. Well, it wasn't leaking & his sock was covered in blood. He found the remains of a mouse that had crawled in before he put them on. I guess his foot kind of squished the poor little guy dry.  

[70charginglizard]

Time for a tetanus shot.

[SLIKK 70]

Should of been the last few steps you took before the bleeding started! Glad your ok!!

[Silver R/T]

wow almost sounds like you've experienced stigmata dude... that be scary

[Drache]

You still have another foot, so what the heck are you worried about?     

Yeah I do but this happened to the right foot! My gas pedal foot! 

[Dodge-Charger]

We are thinknig that it was a scalpel blade that somehow didn't make it into the garbage. I use them when building my models....

Darn young'ins, clean up after yourself ! damn.  Oh well, be glad you didnt lay on it.

[RD]

We don't even have police out here ;-)

but you have internet?   sounds like a pedophiles haven.   not saying you are one by the way hehe j/k

did you find out what cut you?

[Drache]

Still no idea what cut me! Although I smacked my foot with the cane I'm using to hobble around on! That hurt like a bastard... 

[TruckDriver]

Gives a new meaning to Bloody Canadians 
Guess that makes you a Cut above the rest
You know what they say about a stitch in time....
Bet when you got home you were Hoppy

Ok, I had to do it

I hope the doc looked inside the cut to see if it wasn't still in your foot. Least your ok now.

[Drache]

I hope the doc looked inside the cut to see if it wasn't still in your foot. Least your ok now.

Nope not in there! I hope I would notice when walking around although it hurts like a bugger! How do most of you "old guys" get used to your canes? 

[BigBlockSam]

you better not piss off gran-ma again, or she'll cut you again     

[myk]

I say that the knives you use to build models are responsible...

[BrianShaughnessy]

How do most of you "old guys" get used to your canes?  

I'm "old" but I don't have a cane.   What's it like?   

But come to think of it...  maybe I'll put one in the Charger just in case I get some careless smartass kid running into my car with a $100 Yodamobile.     I can whack him in the head with it for being stupid. 

Anyhoo... way back when I broke half a needle off in my foot somehow.   Yeah,   I built models and the needle fell off the table.     I found the other half.      I didn't know the half had broken off in my foot.   I had to get it cut out a few days later after I finally got to the doctor and they finally got their x-ray machine fixed.   I was in pain for a couple days and had to gimp it around school and work for a good week.

[Charger_Fan]

Gives a new meaning to Bloody Canadians  
Guess that makes you a Cut above the rest
You know what they say about a stitch in time....
Bet when you got home you were Hoppy

Ok, I had to do it

Yep, it HAD to be done!

[yellowcuda]

Ouch...poor foot.  With that clean of a cut you better be glad you didn't get cut somewhere else... does the name Bobbit sound familiar.

[DarkAngel0816]

I have had 100 stitches and about 7-10 staples in my arm/hand one time.  Not fun to have taken out.  (Yes you all read that right...I had a finger cut off and etc).

Glad you are okay, but man that would totally drive me bonkers not knowing exactally what cut me!  Take it easy!

[Brock Samson]

  i used to get a mystery slice every timei washed my '89 ram van,. took me forever to figgure out what was doing it. Turned out to be a little thorn of metal atop the drivers side drip rail which nearly every time i would wipe to clean it would slice my finger in the same way...