Originally Posted by CruisingStef
I was studiously working on cutting out my quilt blocks several weeks back. I was having trouble with my rotary cutter skipping, so I figured I would "push" it hard and fast. Well that was really stupid of me to do that, because it slipped and cut my thumb. OUCH!! :XD: I ran to the kitchen crying and bleeding, praying that it would soon stop. Instinctively; I ran it under water, which only made it bleed more but I could see it wasn't that deep. Geez-----how dumb can one be, I got the blood to subside long enough for me to go call for help.
When my friend came, he almost passed out! O.K., he says, lets go to the hospital. No, I cried even more. It's not that bad, just a little blood. "But you've got a flap of skin there that's about to fall off. You need to get to the hospital."
" Alright, but only because I don't want to argue with you."
When we got there, we waited with a blood-soaked thumb for about 15 minutes. Then they took me right into the Fastrac and numbed it to stop the bleeding, and to my surprise they sewed it up with 7 stitches. The rotary cutter went down the middle of my thumb, they say I will lose the nail. I'm lucky though, it could have been much worse, I could have lost my entire thumb.
~~~~But this was only a minor setback.~~~~~
I can only laugh about it NOW....I did the same thing in September except my index finger was over the edge and I cut it through the nail, about 1/3 of my finger, with the flap about an inch long....sounds like yours. I didn't go to the hospital either; I would have to be dying to do that, so I pressed it together (it doesn't hurt long because of the clean cut) but two days later my husband made me go to Urgent Care. That is so much nicer and cheaper ($40 copay) than an ER. He butterflied it but I liked it better the way I did it and took that off after two days. Minor setback is right....I was quilting the next day but got a "clutz glove" a few days later on Ebay. Amazing how slow you cut after something like that, isn't it? LOLLLLLLL