My wife was stabed

[J Smith]

Well it finally happened,she stabbed herself.She was trying to pry apart fozen hamburger patties with a kitchen knife.It went in the inside of her palm and out the side of her hand,barley missed the artery.You could see it pulseing every time her heart beat.If she will let me I will take a pic of it and post it.Looks bad,I would hate to see what a SE Spydie would have done.The cut on the inside is about 2 1/2 in and the one on the outside is about 3 1/2 in.The blade on the knife she was useing was about 3/4 in wide.



JEFF .............Sooooo I see the internet is on the computer now.-Homer Simpson

[tbarahon]

I am sorry to hear that. I hope she gets well soon.

alex

[cmassicotte]

Jeff, Hope she heals quickly. I have never cut myself doing that - but came close once and now use the closest thing to a butter knife in terms of edge to separate frozen hamburgers.

Chuck
Patiently waiting for the ParaMilitary


The journey is the best part of getting there

Edited by - cmassicotte on 8/24/2002 10:28:46 AM

[Jeff/1911]

Jeff,

Sorry to hear about your wife's accident. Hope she heals quickly.

Jeff/1911.

[Al]

Jeff ~ Ouch!, I hope your Wife's hand heals quickly and there's no tendon damage. Maybe she'll have more respect for the old humble kitchen knife in the future as I have found.

[4 s ter]

Jeff

I hope your wife has a complete and speedy recovery!!!

You're probably right - a <img src="spyder.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> bite might have been much worse. But that's likely little consolation to her now.

(no need for pictures however <img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> )

David

"Not all who wander are lost"

[AllenETreat]

Gotta hurt!<img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

ATE <img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

[rainman]

Jeff, Echo on the concerns about tendon damage, and hope your wife recovers compleatly. Personally, I feel pics might be a little over the top.
Good luck to you both,
---rainman

[Big-Target]

Respectfully, I dis-agree. A picture or 2 would make a perfect object lesson on knife safety. Even if you handle a knife safely,,,,,,,,$#it happens!!!<img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

You can't be too careful!!!<img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

BIG-TARGET>>>>>"Time is an illusion. Lunch time doubly so!!!"-Ford Prefect(The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy)

[Tightwad]

Hope you wife enjoys a speedy recovery.

One lesson that can be drawn from this incedent is
that there is no such thing as a harmless knife. Kitchen
tools often are overlooked for the danger they pose.
From a table dull butter knife to the sharpest knife in
in the rack all must be respected.

[KBR]

Sorry to hear about your wife's accident, Jeff. <img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> I hope that she has a speedy recovery.

Survive, Adapt, and Overcome...

[Windwalker]

Jeff,
Really sorry to hear about that... hope your wife heals fully and quickly.
Forget the pictures... it would only put you in the same class with the news people... who have no sense about that that sort of thing.
This is not entertainment... I really feel for her.
Windwalker

[glockman99]

It's a good thing she didn't lose a finger...Those seemingly harmless kitchen knives CAN be dangerous! Maybe it's time to buy your wife a pair of Kevlar gloves!.<img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>.

Dann Fassnacht Aberdeen, WA glockman99@hotmail.com ICQ: 53675663

[Ted]

Ouch... <img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

Hope it heals quickly!

Ted

[BaldBlade]

That's a MAN-O-MAN!!!!

Makes my hand hurt just thinking about it!

-John

[Xibalba]

Jeff,
OUCH! I hope she recovers quickly. That had to be excruciatingly painful.
Mike

"'Good!' said Legolas. 'But my count is now two dozen. It has been knife-work up here.'" -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

[Sword and Shield]

Yeeeeeowwwwww!!!! <img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0><img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

She's lucky that the artery wasn't cut, those can be extremely nasty to repair. Any fine motor/nerve damage? Something like that would worry me, too many delicate things hiding in a palm. <img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

Keepin' it real...real sharp, that is.

[dialex]

Jeff, you surely know how to scare someone! In the first minute, I thought she was attacked! It's bad she hurt herself in the kitchen, but the good part is that it was just a domestic accident. I hope she'll recover soon. Surely she'll be more cautious with knives next time <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

[kraziekurtis]

Ay yi yi! That sucks! <img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

I hope she has a speedy recovery!


<img src="spyder.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> <img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> <img src="spyder.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

[vampyrewolf]

Thats GOTTA sting!

hope she didn't damage any tendons...

[Pachucko]

Hope shes OK.

I stabbed myself once with a pyrometer (sp.?). In through the pointer finger, out the other side, in through the middle finger, and out that one also. They were kind of stuck together, but a little bit apart. It didn't actually hurt that bad until the doc took it out. Whoa!

Pachucks

[jaxon]

Mrs. Jeff,

So sorry to hear of your accident<img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>. I tell my wife to be careful every morning. She's the Cook/Baker at our High School. Neverhtheless she sometimes comes home with cuts and burns. Hope your hand recovers completely and you don't have too much discomfort. Take care<img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>.

Jaxon

[J Smith]

She says thanks to all.I cleaned and dressed it this morning for her does not look near as bad now.They did not put any stiches in the entery hole so that anything that might have been on the blade could work its way out so she can't close her hand with out the wound trying to pop open.

JEFF .............Sooooo I see the internet is on the computer now.-Homer Simpson

[glasshartt]

Jeff,

Give her my sympathies from someone who has been there, done that, and has the t-shirt. I have a nice scar in the web between the pointer and middle fingers on my left hand from just the same thing. Only I was using a steak knife at the time. I was working for an ambulance company and my co-workers had great fun bandaging it up for me. You would have thought I had cut my hand off after they were done. The only remnant from it is the scar. It should heal up just fine. <img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

Linda

<img src="http://www.spyderco.com/forum/spyder.gif" border=O> Integrity is being good even if no-one else is watching <img src="http://www.spyderco.com/forum/spyder.gif" border=O>

[CalypsoKid]

Jeff,

I'll say a prayer that your wife heals quickly, I am very, very sorry to hear that this happened.

~C

[jkc59]

Hope she is okay and healing quickly...

[spydieman]

Ouch! That sounds like a pretty big slice. I am sorry to hear about that but I am glad that it wasn't any more severe. These knives can do nasty things at the most unexpected time.



Edited by - spydieman on 8/25/2002 12:52:36 PM

[Knife Knut]

I can sympathize: knives love my left index finger:
First <img src="spyder.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>, diagonal slice across fingertip, stitches.
Exacto to the 3rd knuckle from tip, requiring tendon stitches (fortunately a specialist in these things was on duty).
Police tip across 2nd knuckle, more tendon stitches, first solo ER trip.


Knife Knut on a shoestring budget.

[Kaizer]

OOOooooooo Mama!!!
That must have really hurt a lot. My sympathies to your wife. Hope she heals quickly.

BTW I thought she was stabbed as in attacked. Scared the hell outta me!

Have a nice day,
Kaizer.

[sam the man..]

Sorry to hear about the accident Mr Smith.. My thoughts and prayer are with you and your wife..

Sam

have bone implant will travel..

[java]

Jeff,

Sorry about Mrs Jeff’s accident. As am EMT my curiosity was aroused on the nature of the wound but, for propriety's sake thanks for not posting a pic. Glad to hear she’s mending well! Be thankful there appears to be no tendon or nerve damage.

Some of you other <img src="spyder.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>lings sound pretty dangerous!!

Pachuks,
How on earth does one make a pyrometer want to share the same dimensional coordinates as a pair of fingers. Was this job or school related. Our pyrometers are of a kinder, gentler and obviously more dull nature. We use dual color pyrometry to control the power delivered to semiconductor wafer surfaces during rapid thermal processing. More chance for burns than the toothy sting of a rogue pyro.

Linda, They give shirts for this!??

Knife Knut,
Dude, with all them stitches, maybe you can save a trip to the ER by carrying medical grade cyanoacetate (super glue) I bonded with my G10 Rookie 3 years ago. The Doc compared his Rookie with mine in the ER and said Spydies were the best blade to be sliced with – beautiful incisions with clean edges and.....they heal well. Instead of stitches, he used the super-glue and the 2 cm cut was healed within 10 days – no scars.

Stay SAFE! Uh….stay sharp!? <img src="spyder.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

[glasshartt]

Java,

No scars huh? They should have used that stuff on my shoulder, and elbow, and hands.... Oh well, maybe next time. <img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> Maybe I need to get some for my horse, he is as big of a klutz as I am.

Linda

&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.spyderco.com/forum/spyder.gif&quot; border=O&gt; Integrity is being good even if no-one else is watching &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.spyderco.com/forum/spyder.gif&quot; border=O&gt;

Edited by - glasshartt on 8/26/2002 5:58:58 PM

[cmassicotte]

JEFF - Good to hear that the wound will heal well.

All you other klutzy <img src="spyder.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>lings - Whew! I sure am glad to be in such good company. I thought I was the only <img src="spyder.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> klutz out there. Most recenty my Ti Salso bit the back of my left thumb - and Java - I did use crazy glue. Seems to have worked too! I got the idea from having recently used Band Aid Liquid Bandage on a scrape.

Chuck
Patiently waiting for the ParaMilitary


The journey is the best part of getting there

[Pachucko]

Java,
I might have the terminology wrong. I'm referring to an electronic thermometer (approximately 5*2*1/2 inches) with a six inch, very sharp probe attached to it. I was the assistant manager of a fast-food place in college, and we used it to make sure the meat was kept at the right temperatures. I had stuck this thing in my shirt pocket for a second to write on a pad, bent over to pick something up, as I reached out with my left hand it fell out of my pocket and impaled the first two fingers. Nobody said anything as I slowly turned my hand around and we looked at the fingers. I detached the electronic part and then did something really stupid, yeah, I tried to pull it out. OUCH, it didn't budge, of course, and we were off to the ER a few minutes later. What happened when we got there is a whole other story.

Pachucks

[glasshartt]

Chuck,

That Salsa didn't waste any time did it?

Linda

<img src="http://www.spyderco.com/forum/spyder.gif" border=O> Integrity is being good even if no-one else is watching <img src="http://www.spyderco.com/forum/spyder.gif" border=O>

[cmassicotte]

Linda - Nope, didn't waste any time. Was out in the garden cutting basil to make Pesto. I new it was the wrong knife for the job, but heck, hadn't &quot;CUT&quot; anything with it yet. Ya'll do understand, don't you?
Next time, perhaps I should use my Civilian.
Drat! I don't own a civilan.

Chuck

There is no right way to do a wrong thing

[glasshartt]

No comment <img src="tongue.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

Linda

<img src="http://www.spyderco.com/forum/spyder.gif" border=O> Integrity is being good even if no-one else is watching <img src="http://www.spyderco.com/forum/spyder.gif" border=O>

[earthworm]

Adding my prayer for a speedy recovery.