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Had something similar happen. After work I lit up a blunt before driving home, and pulled up next to my manager at a red light as he was lighting his.
It ended up saving my ass, because I cut my thumb open a month later, and he saw me in the break room with a wad of bloody paper towels on it.
Instead of starting the workplace injury crap that would have resulted in a drug test, he just said, "got yourself a bit of a paper cut, huh?"
The cut was 100% my fault for using a box cutter stupidly, and wasn't bad enough to need medical attention.
Glad to hear it went fine. Sad to hear that you could not get medical attention without risking your livelyhood. That is so fucked up ๐ข
Yeah, it's definitely stupid that smoking weed within 30 days of the injury fucks you.
But I wouldn't have gotten medical attention regardless. Applying pressure and holding the wound 12in above the heart is all you need the majority of the time for minor to moderate wounds.
Lol yeah, fingers can be dramatic. I cut off a part of my fingernail as a blood sacrifice for using a mandolin instead of chopping my celery normally (worth it, mandolin is so much faster) and there was so much blood from that tiny little wound. Had no idea if I should wrap it up and just get back to making lasagna or go to the ER because it just kept bleeding, preventing me from putting ointment on it. I eventually made a zip tie touniquette and it slowed down enough to slap some ointment and bandaids on it.
The lasagna turned out really well, though finished a bit later than intended.
I understand a mandolin to be a musical instrument. I have no idea wtf this comment is talking about.
One of those vegetable slicers, spelled mandoline. Image search for "mandoline cutter" but without the safety gloves or plastic thing, back of my finger went just a little too low and caught the blade right on the fingernail and it went through it like nothing.
Get some steri-strips/butterfly bandages. That's how I reattached the tip of my thumb when I cut it almost completely off with a mandolin.
Lol I bought a bunch of fingertip ones expecting to need to wear them for like two months while my fingernail grew back. Instead the skin under it healed to the point where running water on it felt normal instead of like someone stuck a blowtorch on it and I've only got a slight indent left after only 3 weeks.
So I'm well stocked on finger bandaids for the next blood sacrifice (which of course I could only find in packages that had the knuckle type as well, so I have even more of those lol).
Yeah, the nail bed can be pretty wild. It contains stem cells that can actually regrow part of your finger if it doesn't also get cut off.
What's fun is that the piece I reattached wasn't lined up perfectly, so now a portion of my fingerprint is wonky like 10 years later.
Also it would be cool to have a misaligned fingerprint. If you do crime, they might end up spending extra time figuring out if someone is trying to leave fake prints behind but isn't good at it.
One part I'm still not very clear on is if the nail bed refers to the entire area under the nails or just the part at the base of the nail, where it grows from.
My incident didn't touch that base but absolutely exposed some of that skin underneath. The regrown nail seems to be adhering well to that skin, too (that was my biggest worry, that I'd be left with a "bubble" of nail seperate from the skin underneath).
The nail bed is the part under the nail. The germinal matrix is the part that grows the nail and has the stem cells, iirc. It's under and behind the cuticle.
It's pretty hard to get the nail to not stick to the nail bed. I had both big toenails permanently removed, but eventually a very thin layer of nail came back a year or two later, and it's as affixed as strongly as the old nail was.
Well, actually stronger because I used to remove the nails myself to avoid the surgery to fix ingrown nails, and eventually they just kinda popped off without issue.
Well that got a shudder out of me. Hope it isn't as unpleasant as it sounds for you these days.