re: PSA - knife safety

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owner artery

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Ulner.

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14 stitches a life flight and two hours of surgery due to carelessness.

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Glad you're ok, and they could fix you up.
That is a pretty significant injury to get tagged with away from facilities.

I hope you didn't have to cut your vacation short.

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Suicide is not the answer

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Some say it's painless, but brings on many changes.

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severing the owner artery

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You don't have to be specific, we know you own your artery.

Thanks for telling us in a timely manner

growing up, we had parquet floors in my second home. as a kid, i was messing with my knife and tossed it in the parquet floor and forgot about it. a while later, (barefoot), i forgot about the knife and got up to get something. I kicked that blade with my big toe and nearly cut it to the bone. I was in middle school at the time and it was the Fall and I had football practice nearly every day after school. that damn toe would heal during the day and split open during practice and i would bleed everywhere even with tape.

knife safety is sometimes something you have to learn the hard way.

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owner artery

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I say this with all due respect, but are you retarded

I cut the radial artery of my right index finger. Blood was squirting out of it as I made a fist. I bumped it on the edge of a mower blade that was in my vice. I had just sharpened the edge, turned away to get a rag, turned back and touched it ever so lightly. That was enough. 5 stitches. I am all eyes now with anything sharp.

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a life flight

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Over/under: $75k bill

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Ulner.

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That's on the pinkie side of the hand, now I'm very curious so to how it happened. I've accidentally cut the radial artery at the wrist, and somehow didn't die with no IFAK or torniquet.