Accidentally cut myself.

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johnerdem

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Hello all,

My question I guess is pretty long. I don't know. Bear with me. Yesterday I while I was at a gunshow I had a small accident with a knife. 90% of the vendors selling knifes always have signs saying "Be care: extremely smart" Even though alot of them have nothing but knifes that aren't even sharpened yet. However you are still careful. I was checking out one knife and I was not expecting the strength of a spring action one and it slip and flew back poking my thumb. It had a pointed edge at the end an these knifes WERE very sharp. So it broke the skin and drew blood. IT wasn't that severe, but it still broke it. basically a small, but deep enough pric*k. (kinda like a diabetic's blood testing thing pric*k maybe?). Now given the fact that this is in a large show and a large number of people probably held these knifes and the fact that the vendor had a sign that wittly said: "Stop cutting yourselves on our knifes and bleeding on them! - Band-aids - $2.00", I figure it is likly I wasn't the only one. That would bother me even so much normally, but a little awhile after it seemed that my thumb had swollen just a little bit and had a slight burning/numbness feeling to it, which was odd to me considering it was just a tiny pric*k and only drew a small amount of blood. Today the thumb feels fine, and the pric*k is barely visible. It's not red, swollen or numb or anything. I feel a little odd, but I blame that on my paranoia.

My question is why would that happen, the swollenness and burning/numbness, I've never had that happen before. and what are my chances I've come in contact with something like STSS, some kind of blood infection or other illness? Should I be worry at all?

-Jeremy

*Dumb filter is dumb. I don't me that word! =P
 
The initial injury would have cut through tiny nerves and the fingers are very sensitive. Did you suck it? wipe it on your clothes? It sounds like even if a little germ got in, it is healing well now, so I am sure it will be OK. If the knives are relatively clean and out in the open air, it is quite unlikely that anything really nasty (eg tetanus, hiv, etc) will be able to survive on them. Just look out for fever, swelling, and/or pain. You should be OK. If you are going to fiddle with knives at shows, maybe you should carry a little bottle of disinfectant and a bandaid with you. Sera.
 
I did not suck it. I did squeeze it a bit though. Might of wiped a little on my cloths. Ok, well thats good to hear, it's just that my fingers/hands don't normally swell a bit or burn when I cut them. I guess that makes sense, my only worry was that many, many other people held them and likely a few of them also cut themselves to some degree. I haven't come down with any of those symptoms yet, so I assume everything's fine.

LOL, maybe I should, I normally carry Germ-X, when ever I can, haha, it just caught me off guard. Nice knife though, I use to always carry one around which I used for work and everything else, but I don't have one at the moment so I've been looking around for a good one. I guess I feel a little silly as that I handle knifes and the whatnot all the time and yet managed to do that, oh well, it can happens to the pros even.
 
I hope you got a tetanus shot when you did cut yourself. It is an old wives tail that only rust causes tetanus, tetanus is caused by the bacteria which lives in dirt many animals can get into even a paper cut and cause it. tetanus shots here in canada are good for ten years minus 5 years every time you cut your skin and bleed. so if you had one ten years ago and have cut yourself 3 times you are definatly due for another one
 
Also symtoms of tetanus are as follows and do not always start at the wound.
lock jaw, painful or umcomfortable spasms in your muscles around your back and spine neck jaw sweating hard of breathing heart burn, the feeling of being very cold skinned around your sides and back.

good reason to get the shot now for sure is this.. I am pretty sure you do not want to feel what the spasm can do to your bones. spasm get so strong they can break the bones around your spine legs feet hands jaw neck. not a good infection and there is no cure just treatment which is usually hospitalization. and constant tet shots if you do contract it.
 
Nothing to worry about ...your body sent your infection fighters to the scene of the wound and seems they took care of it. Guess some lessons are hard to learn.
 
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