I'm a wee bit concerned about the cut I gave myself with a bread knife on Sunday. While it stopped bleeding after about an hour, my finger was pretty swollen and it took me a couple of days to regain a full range of motion. But I'd been keeping a band aid on it and it seemed to be healing even though it's right on one of the winkles on my knuckle.
So today I go to the gym for the first time since I cut myself. Do an hour on the elliptical, get changed and when I'm walking through the place to leave my finger feels wet. When I take a look I discover that my finger is leaking pretty well.
Fortunately, there was a paper towel dispenser right beside me and I'm hoping no one noticed that I've got a couple of red fingers. I'm walking back to the change room so that I can clean up a bit and only notice a couple of drops of blood on the floor, which I wipe up, so I'm thankful that it hadn't been bleeding for that long and that I'm wearing black pants and jacket. It's 45 minutes later and there's still a little blood coming out of the cut.
Can working out really cause cuts to start bleeding again?
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