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You poor thing! This is why I bought the Accuquilt GO as I knew it was just a matter of time for me. Hope you heal fast and that Santa brings you some cutting gloves like they use on Fons and Porter TV shows.
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I did the same thing a month ago with my left index finger. Didn't go to the medical route, but spent lots and lots of time soaking in peroxide, which hurt like the dickens but healed it fast!
Also, be careful of that Olfa circle cutter. I was trying to close the blade and severly cut my thumb and index finger on my right hand! Keep sharp things away from me!!!!! |
I think we have all tried to use our blade until we absolutely had to change them. I learned the hard way too. When it starts to slip, change the blade. I am sure the hospital run cost more than a new blade. Get well soon!
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Wow now I knowhow lucky I was when I only did a little cut on my thumb.........bled like a fountain though. Someone suggested you keep some of that new skin around for the little nicks.
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My biggest fear!!
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Oh, I hope you are doing better. I know how traumatic a deep cut is. Heck, I get nauseous when I nick myself with a razor or kitchen knife. I made myself use the Gypsy Grippers, I have all three sizes. Now I feel like I forgot to fasten my seatbelt if I don't use them for every ruler. I am still a little scared of my rotary cutter and I've been using one for years. I dropped it and it put a deep cut in the top of my foot and I knew better then to wear slippers in the sewing room. It hurt a lot and the ER bill after insurance would have paid for The Go and every die made for it.
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I hope you didn't bleed on your fabric!
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Originally Posted by OHSue
I hope you didn't bleed on your fabric!
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So sorry to here about your thumb. Take the time for it to heal completly so you'll be able to quilt again. My daughter cut her finger with one of those wavey rotary cutters while at school. Bled like a son of a gun but healed completly. Good luck.
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I can feel your pain, Stef! I did a job on my index finger with the rotary cutter. I decided to use a 'shortcut', using my other hand to cut the material instead of moving my cutting board around. I almost passed out when I saw it. Blood everywhere! It happened on a Friday night so I decided to wait it out until Monday to go to the Dr.'s. 'Couldn't sleep because of the pulsing in my finger for days. Monday the doctor said it was too late to stitch it up so I had to cope with it until it finally healed. Now I have a big scar to remind me not to ever do that again! Some lessons are learned with a lot of pain!!
I hope yours in healing quickly and that it isn't keeping you from quilting for too long. |
Hi, my name is Jean and I also live in Lakeland. I have had near misses with the rotary cutter, but once actually sewed over my index finger and had to go to the hospital to have it looked at, just wanted you to know and also my birthday is September 19th although I am probably older than you
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It's a good thing you called your friend!
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Wow! Must be an epidemic. I sliced a little piece off my index finger last week. I have been using a cutter for 25 years and it was the first time. My blade was sharp,I just got in a hurry.
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Glad it was only a few stitches that you needed and not a replacement thumb (we can't do without our thumbs). Hope you heal quickly.
Rotary cutters should be changed a lot more often than most of us change them. I've been buying the Harbor Freight Tools rotary cutters and at $1.00 each you can afford to change them a lot more often. With the lady that almost stuck the seam ripper in her eye and now this with the rotary cutter, it is a great reminder that we work with extremely dangerous tools and need to be very careful with them. I know that sometimes I get distracted and have had a few near misses myself. It is always such a sobering feeling when it happens. Take care... |
Yowie! Have heard of this many times.
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Originally Posted by ginnie6
wow! I cut mine a few years ago with a buck knife...index finger and laid it open from first knuckle to end of nail on the side. Bled like crazy. I superglued it, splinted it to keep from bending it and after about an hour of sitting I was back in the kitchen.....I did NOT use that knife anymore though!
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Originally Posted by Chasing Hawk
Oh geez!! Get well soon
Get to healing, you have work to do. :) I did the same thing with one of those Mandaline slicers used in the kitchen. Soon as I stopped bleeding all over my newly redone kitchen I threw that thing in the trash. So now I use a food processor. +Glad you will heal. I did the same thing with one of those slicers--it too went into the garbage!!! |
weak stomach...off to throw up my French toast :oops: :? :shock:
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oh no..... thats terrible.. ( sounds like soemthing I would do... I HATE changing blades!)
I'm thankful ur thumb will be ok.. and I"m even more thankful that DH does nto read this board!! I'd never hear the end of it! he would try to take away my cutters.... altho I have NEVER cut my self with the rotatries or a razor blade.. I cut my self with dumb stuff like.. the finger nail clippers or the letter opener..* ... sigh....don't ask*...... |
Originally Posted by OHSue
I hope you didn't bleed on your fabric!
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OH MY that must be a really sore owie. Take good care of it, I'm sure you have a lot of projects to finish up. Oh, and by the way. Change the blade.
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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.~~~~~ |
hello : hope you get" all better" soon, lots of folks here are praying for a good recovery. I' m in Winter Haven, is there something I can do to help you?
Jacie |
hello : hope you get" all better" soon, lots of folks here are praying for a good recovery. I' m in Winter Haven, is there something I can do to help you?
Jacie |
owie, owie, owie...mice have a low threshold to pain.
That's it, I'm either getting guards for my rulers or some of those gloves..um, what are they called? I'm a klutz on two hind paws...don't want to learn the hard way. thanks for sharing. Sorry you had to. Glad you didn't argue either. hugs :thumbup: |
Thanks to everyone. I will get a pair of Klutz gloves off Ebay. I get my stitches out Tuesday. But as someone mentioned on the board, it's surprising how slow I use my rotary cutter now that this has happened.
A special thanks for all your prayers. I'm convinced that if it weren't for my quilting buddies, I would not be healing so quickly. Thanks loads. |
I think all quilters have a finger story and I hope yours gets better. I agree, if you needed that much pressure you should stop I didn't say I would have either. I know how cutting off a finger slows us down. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Ouch! Hope you heal quickly...and thanks for the story will remind me to be careful when using my rotary cutter.
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MY HUBBY CAME IN THE DOOR......CALLING MY NAME "I THINK WE MIGHT NEED TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL.THE LAST TIME HE DID THIS IT WAS VERY MINOR...SO I KEPT ON SEWING....THEN I HEAR "I MEAN WE REALLY NEED TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL". SO I WENT TO THE KITCHEN WHERE HE WAS PULLING OFF HIS GLOVES AND POCEEDED TO SHOW ME 2 AMPUTATED FINGERS HOLDING ON BY THE SKIN........CAUGHT THEM IN THE SNOW BLOWER..WHICH HE HAD USED FOR OVER 20 YEARS. THIS IS TWO YEARS LATER AND $35,000.00 TO SAVE THE FINGERS.
LUCKILY WE HAD GOOD INS....WE ONLY PAIN $100.00 OUT OF POCKET. THIS GOES TO SHOW YOU, YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL NO MATTER HOW LONG YOU HAVE DONE SOMETHING. |
I am so glad you didn't lose your thumb ! Take care !
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Geepers kreepers good thing you called the right friend who insisted you go to the hospital... Time for a new blade. Then be extra careful.
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Originally Posted by amandasgramma
I'm sorry --- I did dumb last summer and cut the end of my middle finger almost all the way off. I don't care that they say I'm an adult -- it HURT! I cried!!!
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Not going to the ER or Dr. and waiting... WHY? That is very dangerous. When I hurt I want relief immediately I don't care what day it is.
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I am sorry, I hope your finger heals fast. I did the same thing only did not need stitches.
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Oh the pain! the thought of what could have happen,
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Dang! I am so sorry that happened to you!
I watched a friend of mine slice her thumb using a rotary cutter so in the back of my head I'm like careful... careful... careful... I know one of these days it will be my turn... |
Originally Posted by BellaBoo
Not going to the ER or Dr. and waiting... WHY? That is very dangerous. When I hurt I want relief immediately I don't care what day it is.
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I felt pain as I read your post. Got up from my computer and went over to make sure I had locked my rotary cutter because I have a bad habit of not doing that. I will think of you each time I look at and use that thing ! Glad your neighbor insisted on taking you to the hospital. This is for him :thumbup:
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I cut the end of my finger off with a rotary cutter about 3 years ago. I now use gypsy gripper to hold my rulers. These cuts are very painful. They would'nt sew mine back on. Glad yours is going to be okay.
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I hope it heals quickly with no problems.
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