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Old 11-06-2011, 09:43 PM   #9
pylon
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Protip for the next time you slice yourself clean and deep:

1) Make sure you keep in your medicine cabinet a few caustic pencils (silver nitrate sticks) and crazy glue.

2) Wound yourself with a knife or razor blade. (This method does not work well with pressure, or punture wounds.)

3) Rinse under cold water for 5 minutes or so to slow blood flow, and numb.

4) Apply caustic pencil to to cut to cauterize.

5) Seal with a liberal dose of crazy glue.

6) Sit back and marvel in your time savings, and handi-work.

I have done three cuts this way that would easily have required stitches, and they heal beautifully. I learned the trick on the side of a highway in Montana when I took a rock to the head on my motorcycle, and I was not wearing a helmet. A truck driver stopped, and glued me together.. albeit skipping stage three, and using a little vodka to rinse the wound. When I got home I went to the walk in clinic to get it properly fixed, and the doctor says "That truck driver did a nice job. If you notice it start to get infected come back, otherwords, it should heal up fine."

Just sealed up a nasty one from a carpet knife this summer, and it barely left a scar after healing.

From what I understand, dermabond, is just medical grade crazy glue anyway.

You're welcome in advance.
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