First aid - to hand

[Foxyboy43]

Following a particularly stupid attempt to free a strap on a feeder which involved rotating the knife handle and pushing down with the knife, my friend’s (ahem) hand travelled down the handle and slid half the length of the blade which of course is the serrated part (what else?) leading to a very nasty deep cut to (err) my friend’s. trigger finger (where else?). That and the blood thinners he (getting silly) is on led to quite a passable imitation of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre with this person in the starring role. Needless to say this happened half a mile down a narrow country track and well away from the nearest habitation (shocker!). He (honest) thought one (that’s better) had severed a tendon initially but said finger was still answering commands from slightly panicked neurons so the very immediate issue was really about blood or more accurately the loss of same. By a stroke of good fortune only 2 weeks earlier someone had replaced their (tenuous) very elderly car First Aid kit with a decent belt pouch crammed full of essential packages, lotions and potions from a no longer required substantial sailing First Aid grip. That said it was fun trying to open the zip, extract the padded bandage, tear the paper apart and wrap same around the crimson fountain with only one good flipper operational whilst at the same time holding the other very dodgy flipper skywards. The availability of this kit undoubtedly saved my friend quite a lot of grief and a fair amount of “claret” too so the point of this somewhat embarrassing tale is to remind all stalkers to carry a similar kit and to keep it updated. If you don’t have one - get one - I really do not know what else I, sorry my friend, could have used on this occasion.
Result of hand”iwork” shown below - other fotos are not suitable for the delicate SD audience.

 

[biffo]

Good call, and you were lucky. I also carry celox, which is that powder stuff for military wounds to stop the bleeding ...never had occasion to use it , but it could be vital.

 

[gixer1]

Steri-strips are a good idea! I’ve got myself friends out of a few spurters over the years!

I was once helping with releasing poults and unbeknown to me, I knelt down to empty a crate over a hole in the ground....a little army of yellow and black monsters erupted up the open section of my t-shirt and the other helpers around me laughed as I did the “pierced in several places” dance.....so antihistamines or Epipen are worth adding....it wasn’t a nice day after that...11 different stings.

 

[gixer1]

 

[dartmoordog]

Anyone who does things with saws, chain saws, knives, axes and firearms etc, and who does not carry a IFAK.......Is a fool.

It pays to know what do as well.

“It’s better to be looking at it.....Than for it”

 

[eldon]

Yep Aim rifle bag has minimal first aid kit plus celox and a cat tourniquet just in case

 

[dartmoordog]

Yep Aim rifle bag has minimal first aid kit plus celox and a cat tourniquet just in case

Cellox and CAT in mine to.