Exterous blog part 2: Ouch

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Wasn't paying attention to where I was walking while trying to get a picture of a hummingbird bathing itself in a waterfall. Put my foot down where there should have been trail but the spot had been washed out instead. I went down hard on rocks. Cut my hand and cut up my knee with blood running down my leg a little bit. It was a local park so of course we left our first aid kit at the hotel. Hundreds of miles hiking with no issue and the first time I need it...

Fortunately we had a couple hand wipes with alcohol to clean my knee and then limped a mile to a grocery store for supplies.

Those dark lines aren't dirt but dried blood in the deeper cuts:

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Sat outside the grocery store cutting away some skin, cleaning and then dressing.

Now I'm in a brewery drinking away the pain
 
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Iron Woode said:
when I was a kid that was a common messing around outside injury. Kids would just walk that off rather bothering our parents.

The good old days. :)
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The bruising doesn't come through very well in the pictures and I don't remember needing to mop up blood every couple of steps before it clotted
 
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UsandThem said:
We need a full bottle of Bactine and some Q-tips stat!

If you didn't cry from hitting the rocks, some good 'ole Iodine will get you there. ;)
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The peroxide and wiping to clean everything outside the grocery store was fun. I'm sure a few people were wondering what was with the weird guy outisde the store
 
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Exterous said:
I figured you guys would react nicely
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c'mon you know ATOT better than that!
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i fell similarly on a lava rock hike on hawai'i a few years ago. turned the bottom of my palm into hamburger and i certainly wanted to cry.

but i was brave, put a handkerchief on my hand, and walked a couple miles back to a store to buy bandaids because i forgot to pack them.

one person seemed alarmed at my blood-soaked hanky, but showing them my lava-pierced hand allayed their fears.
 
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Iron Woode said:
mercurachrome?
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Yeah, that must be the stuff.

I just remembered having my grandma out that stuff on scrapes when I was a young kid. I hated the burn so much, whenever I was at her house and cut myself, I'd try and hide the cut just to avoid the "red dropper of death". :oops:

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brianmanahan said:
c'mon you know ATOT better than that!
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i fell similarly on a lava rock hike on hawai'i a few years ago. turned the bottom of my palm into hamburger and i certainly wanted to cry.

but i was brave, put a handkerchief on my hand, and walked a couple miles back to a store to buy bandaids because i forgot to pack them.

one person seemed alarmed at my blood-soaked hanky, but showing them my lava-pierced hand allayed their fears.
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My wife asked why I was ignoring her at the bar and I said "so people can take potshots at me online"

Is your hand still hamburgery?
 
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UsandThem said:
Yeah, that must be the stuff.

I just remembered having my grandma out that stuff on scrapes when I was a young kid. I hated the burn so much, whenever I was at her house and cut myself, I'd try and hide the cut just to avoid the "red dropper of death". :oops:

Mercurochrome.jpg
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I have lots of memories of that stuff. My mom was a reg. nurse and she used that when I had boo-boos. The glass dropper and the joy (not) of that stuff in a cut. Nearly every kid I knew was treated with that stuff.
 
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Exterous said:
My wife asked why I was ignoring her at the bar and I said "so people can take potshots at me online"
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got your priorities straight!

Exterous said:
Is your hand still hamburgery?
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nope, as far as i can tell the base of that hand looks younger than the other

maybe scraping it up and causing all new skin to grow rejuvenated it... perhaps i've found the fountain of youth
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(don't think i'm gonna test it though)
 
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Iron Woode said:
I have lots of memories of that stuff. My mom was a reg. nurse and she used that when I had boo-boos. The glass dropper and the joy (not) of that stuff in a cut. Nearly every kid I knew was treated with that stuff.
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Do you remember these tiny pills they gave us for "caughs"? I remember Ma saying whooping cough but might have just been bronchitis. Very distinctive taste.
 
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highland145 said:
Do you remember these tiny pills they gave us for "caughs"? I remember Ma saying whooping cough but might have just been bronchitis. Very distinctive taste.
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Vicks vapor rub in a small 'vaporizer' (steam gizmo). For bad coughs. Or, having it rub on the chest - used to make my eyes burn.
 
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Iron Woode said:
when I was a kid that was a common messing around outside injury. Kids would just walk that off rather bothering our parents.

The good old days. :)
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yeah, there was a time where I did that to myself about every other day. We lived in a cul-de-sac at the bottom of a very steep hill. I had decided that the best way to ride a skateboard, was to start at the top, sit on it, and steer it all the way down towards the neighbor's driveway at the finish line--to try and launch as far as I could. All I ever did was shred my knees, every single time, but I'd come back the next day and do it again.
 
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So just checking to make sure @Exterous is still alive. Hope youse are doing well. Any extra TLC from the missus?
 
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zinfamous said:
yeah, there was a time where I did that to myself about every other day. We lived in a cul-de-sac at the bottom of a very steep hill. I had decided that the best way to ride a skateboard, was to start at the top, sit on it, and steer it all the way down towards the neighbor's driveway at the finish line--to try and launch as far as I could. All I ever did was shred my knees, every single time, but I'd come back the next day and do it again.
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Yes, and we healed in 3 days. Now it takes two weeks and still looks pinkish for a while after that :rolleyes:.
Wait, every day?! Damn, that like when I was learning guitar. Kept cutting up my finger tips. Couldn't use bandages, so I think I just taped them up tight, but they still bled till the calluses start building up.
 
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Ajay said:
Yes, and we healed in 3 days. Now it takes two weeks and still looks pinkish for a while after that :rolleyes:.
Wait, every day?! Damn, that like when I was learning guitar. Kept cutting up my finger tips. Couldn't use bandages, so I think I just taped them up tight, but they still bled till the calluses start building up.
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this is why i don't learn guitar even though i'd like to

can't mess up my fingers for playing piano
 
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