Posted: 7/24/2014 10:53:26 AM EDT
Arfcom docs, will I keep this leg?
I was sawing small saplings down at knee height and I bumped the sawblade into my leg. I'll see if it let me videotape the stitching procedure. Xray to make sire it didnt get into the shin bone: 
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Yup. Chaps are cheaper than the ER. |
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Yeah those were in the truck.... Cause im a dipshit  
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| Dad nearly lost his leg last year from a cut not much worse than that. Infection set it badly within 3 days and got ugly fast. Lost a big chunk of skin covering his ankle that was recovered with a skin graph. Missed 10 weeks of work once all was said and done. Needless to say he respects his chainsaw much more than he used to. |
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Dad nearly lost his leg last year from a cut not much worse than that. Infection set it badly within 3 days and got ugly fast. Lost a big chunk of skin covering his ankle that was recovered with a skin graph. Missed 10 weeks of work once all was said and done. Needless to say he respects his chainsaw much more than he used to. Well shit, now im worried. They gave me a tetanus shot and it looks clean. Am i gonna need antibiotics too? |
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Well shit, now im worried. They gave me a tetanus shot and it looks clean. Am i gonna need antibiotics too? Quoted:
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Dad nearly lost his leg last year from a cut not much worse than that. Infection set it badly within 3 days and got ugly fast. Lost a big chunk of skin covering his ankle that was recovered with a skin graph. Missed 10 weeks of work once all was said and done. Needless to say he respects his chainsaw much more than he used to. Well shit, now im worried. They gave me a tetanus shot and it looks clean. Am i gonna need antibiotics too? A tampon and a shoulder perhaps? |
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Have they started scrubbing with a tooth brush yet? Fun times No, he said that hes going to run the needle below both cuts and pull them together. I told him to give me extra novacaine first and to scrub it extra well after that other poster related his dads ankle infection story. |
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Dad nearly lost his leg last year from a cut not much worse than that. Infection set it badly within 3 days and got ugly fast. Lost a big chunk of skin covering his ankle that was recovered with a skin graph. Missed 10 weeks of work once all was said and done. Needless to say he respects his chainsaw much more than he used to. Well shit, now im worried. They gave me a tetanus shot and it looks clean. Am i gonna need antibiotics too? A tampon and a shoulder perhaps? Y'all are a tough crowd to please. Should i go out into the parking lot, fire up the saw again and try harder on the other leg? |
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Dad nearly lost his leg last year from a cut not much worse than that. Infection set it badly within 3 days and got ugly fast. Lost a big chunk of skin covering his ankle that was recovered with a skin graph. Missed 10 weeks of work once all was said and done. Needless to say he respects his chainsaw much more than he used to. Yup, infection is a big thing any time your skin is "opened." I severely mangled a finger and thumb, both with exposed bone (at different times) over 26 years as a mechanic, and both times I was given Keflex as a prophylactic measure. |
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Yup. Chaps are cheaper than the ER. My understanding is that chaps won't keep you out of the ER, they'll just keep you out of ICU and maybe put you a little further back in the triage pileup. In my experience though, they triage drippy stuff like that faster one way or the other. Less cleanup.
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Yeah those were in the truck.... Cause im a dipshit 1st step is admitting come to think I do did the exact same thing |
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You're gonna have a sweet scar. Tell your grandkids you got it fighting a bigfoot or something. Don't tell them you suck at chainsaw. http://media.steampowered.com/steamcommunity/public/images/avatars/ef/ef358a0e8d7e8a00c114fe6fd6dbf1e5c58b9e4c_full.jpg lold out loud at the Bubbles ref. 
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what brand saw
I was being a dumb ass and standing on the bad side of a rotted 70' aspen with a xp562 and it went i kind of jumped /tumbled out of the way and felt heat on my leg figured i would be known as stumpy and or squishy ..... as you see i got real real lucky 
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