Hanging out my shingle
As a nurse…….dad called about 30 minutes ago and said he cut his hand with a dull axe! He was splitting kindling down in the basement….rushed over with a handful of boxes of gauze pads not knowing if we’d have to make a flying trip to ER or not.
He had a wad of paper toweling wrapped around the hand, which of course stuck to the wound. It was a gash about a little over 1/4″ but deep. The corner of the axe (point) got him. The minute I took the towel off, it started bleeding again, his hand was covered in blood. Made him go to the kitchen sink and I grabbed the bottle of perioxide. He wanted me to use an eye dropper to drop the perioxide. At that point, I somewhat lost it and told him that he called for the nurse and the nurse was gonna pour it over his hand.
After cleaning off the hand and area, I had to put a double 3×3 pad on it, then wrapped the hand in tape to keep light pressure on it. He wasn’t happy when I gave him instructions to not go back in the basement.
And how was your Sunday?