Post by: SteveW on January 15, 2021, 08:44:59 PM
Not the usual cuts and bruises, something a bit more juicy.
I’ve had to have splinters of an MGB door skin removed from my eye.
Post by: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on January 15, 2021, 09:38:19 PM
I swore a lot found some Swarfega to clean my hands - there was just a small entry would from a sharp fragment that I pulled out. I finished the job making sure I wore thick gloves on the other wheel.
Fast forward about ten months as I was getting into bed that evening I noticed a glint under the surface of the skin on my left forefinger. I pressed the glint area whereupon I saw what looked like a shiny chrome splinter.
It hurt like hell as I pressed it so I went to the bathroom to unwrap a brand new safety razor blade that I snapped in half. To numb by finger I went downstairs & out of the freezer I took a cube of ice that I held onto the forefinger.
I then cut the skin near where I had seen the glint. There was little blood so with a new ice cube I cut a little deeper - with the help of some tweezers I pulled out a curved arrow head shaped piece of the wheel bearing. It was almost half an inch long - at its widest end it was about an eighth of an inch squarish in profile narrowing to a point like a needle end.
No hospital visit no sutures - just some Germoline and a plaster - the scar was visible for decades - now it only seems to be visible in extreme cold. What surprised me was that until that evening the massive splinter did not cause me any pain!
Post by: Athame57 on January 16, 2021, 03:21:37 AM
In the 1980s I had spent hours working on the top end on my CB250RS that was one of many I'd used for dispatch riding, the one in question I've put a pic off here. Well, for reasons I can't remember I couldn't start it after all that. ::) After a while with the hell of a cuss I kicked it in the sump .....I nearly went mad with pain and I went to A&E, nothing broken but I was still 'off the road' a few days! :'(
Post by: Johnwebley on January 16, 2021, 10:05:53 AM
Got a thorn under my thumb nail.
Only way to get it was through the nail.
Used a knife to scrape away the nail till I could get the thorn out.
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Post by: Johnny4428 on January 16, 2021, 10:18:25 AM
Post by: ST1100 on January 16, 2021, 12:59:28 PM
... something a bit more juicy.Fortunately no serious bodily harm yet... the usual micro splinters or wire copper threads impaled in the skin you've to search for days...
Some years back I'd forgotten to unscrew the fork-caps on my ST1100 before opening the drain plugs on the low outside of the bottoms...
POOF!!
...blackish, stinking stuff everywhere... face, mouth, nose, eyes, hair, forearms, shirt, pants, shoes, workbench, cabinets, wall, ceiling... took me days to get rid of the stench (and taste!)... ;D
Post by: Bryanj on January 16, 2021, 02:29:49 PM
Got a scar halfway round left thumb from whem it got trapped between a large hammer and speedo drive ring on Triumph T140 rear wheel, hospital thought they may have to set the joint in one position for that one but no, now i can feel the end of my thumb in two places, at the end and at the scar!! Also i probed you can get a 3ltr Capri round a right angle right turn at 70 with one hand
Post by: smoothoperator on January 16, 2021, 04:42:04 PM
Post by: MCTID on January 16, 2021, 05:58:22 PM
We were nattering over the garden wall one sunny day and talking about incidents and accidents at work when she said "When I worked in A & E, I saw some really unusual sights......it's incredible what people can get up to with bottles and things" !!!!!
When I get a bit low or depressed, I turn on YouTube Fails and see just what lunatics there are out there stealing oxygen from the rest of us ! Always cheers me up no end.
Stay safe Folks........this will all be over soon.
Post by: Laverda Dave on January 16, 2021, 06:17:19 PM
Post by: allankelly1 on January 16, 2021, 09:29:48 PM
Went to a skateboarding party with my son when I was 48 and came a cropper
Was half piping with him for about 20 mins then the board got away from me
5 days in hospital but all Logan mates thought his dad was “well cool” busting his arm in two places
Oh well I guess at least it was “much cooler” than just falling down the stairs
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Post by: SteveW on January 16, 2021, 09:45:20 PM
It was Friday the 13 September 2013 and it was the day I was due to have my staples out.
47 staples 3 inches below belly button to 6 inches above.
It was being done by the nurse at our local surgery, the rooms are named after colours and I was asked to go to the black room.
I said jokingly as I went in that this was going to go well being Friday the 13th in the black room.
Sure enough as she removed the staples, half of the wound burst open, she freaked out and called the gp who said I had to get to hospital immediately. They bandaged the hell out of me to keep me together while I went to hospital.
I finally saw the surgeon later who said they could not re stitch or re staple as it would create a void under the skin.
So I had to stay bandaged for 3 months whilst it healed from the inside out, getting the dressings changed at local surgery every other day.
My stomach now looks as if I’ve had an accident with a chainsaw.
Post by: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on January 17, 2021, 10:54:57 AM
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Post by: mike the bike on January 17, 2021, 03:32:58 PM
My second worst sprang was when I got thrown off a push bike of all things, by a speed hump. I buggered up my right wrist big time and that's held together with more Meccano. That aches like the devil as well but at least I can still use it.
I've also broke the other wrist, a couple of ribs, a toe and lately I slipped on the ice and dislocated my finger.
None of the above injuries were caused by motorcycling in any way, which is surprising because I don't hang about.
Post by: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on January 17, 2021, 04:22:43 PM
Post by: Johnwebley on January 17, 2021, 05:23:05 PM
I got mine somewhere.
That is how I met the present Mrs W.
49 years ago
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Post by: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on January 18, 2021, 09:41:56 AM
Have you got the K nail?
I got mine somewhere.
That is how I met the present Mrs W.
49 years ago
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Wow that's a great story - I kept the "Kuntersnail" in my briefcase for over 10 years moving home several times then when I divorced the briefcase & contents were lost.
Mine was 18" long with a triangular type profile. The scar when they removed it was as long as the original operation as it was well stuck inside the bone. I remember the agony of the post operative pain like it was yesterday.
I was in the old Derby Royal Infirmary Ward 1 where a third of the patients were in traction with similar injuries - when the Matron did the ward rounds she simply asked me
"What make Motorbike was it" lol. Oh the indignity of 3 months of Bedpans for an 18 year old boy.
Post by: Johnwebley on January 18, 2021, 11:33:34 AM
A C section. The exit was a 2" incision in the buttock. Pulled it out from the top.
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Post by: AshimotoK0 on January 18, 2021, 11:50:24 AM
Post by: philward on January 18, 2021, 12:43:07 PM
This is one for Mr. Davo ;D... Harry Hewitt in Coronation street was killed when the jack gave way on a van he was fixing in 1967. ;D ;DI remember that Ash! Jacks and cobbled streets don't mix well!
Post by: Bryanj on January 18, 2021, 06:46:55 PM
Post by: Nurse Julie on January 18, 2021, 07:05:49 PM
Cobbled streets dont mix with anything except the carthorses they were designed forThat's why I hate riding up that road through the Tram Museum at Crich, me wheels want to go in every direction at the same time 😁😁😁😁
Post by: davefirestorm on January 18, 2021, 07:45:57 PM
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Post by: K2-K6 on January 18, 2021, 08:03:28 PM
Being nineteen and proud owner of a 3ltr Capri "Flintstones edition" and rusty as hell, this obviously influences the choice of pipe. Garden hosepipe, a long piece (you can see where this is going can't you) bit of a suck and nothing, goes for a good bit of pace, a woosh and a glug with something like half litre of output consumed involuntarily and there we go :)
Soapy water they use apparently to get it all back up, plus a stay for observation to make sure they'd got it all.
We don't remind it of him at all, even now.
Post by: AshimotoK0 on January 18, 2021, 08:23:38 PM
Years ago went round to my mate's house to see him, to preserve his dignity I'll call him Pete, well actually that is his name :) he was out and his mum said he'd just nipped down to the local hospital to have his stomach pumped! "Oh, why was that" I asked. Well he'd decided to test the concentration of his anti freeze with a hydrometer, needing a sample from the car cooling system had decided to suck some out with a tube, and this is where it had gone wrong.
Being nineteen and proud owner of a 3ltr Capri "Flintstones edition" and rusty as hell, this obviously influences the choice of pipe. Garden hosepipe, a long piece (you can see where this is going can't you) bit of a suck and nothing, goes for a good bit of pace, a woosh and a glug with something like half litre of output consumed involuntarily and there we go :)
Soapy water they use apparently to get it all back up, plus a stay for observation to make sure they'd got it all.
We don't remind it of him at all, even now.
An ex-workmate who is a bit of a boozer came in from the garden hot and sweaty and his wife had just cleaned out the kitchen sink cupboard. She found a wine bottle with rosé home brew wine in it .. well so she though.. it was actually anti-freeze. My mate swigged quite bit it and then realised what it was. He ended up in hospital overnight and they were convinced he had tried to top himself. Evidently they give you whisky to drink after they pump your stomach out.
Post by: K2-K6 on January 18, 2021, 08:47:07 PM
Post by: Honda Al on January 18, 2021, 08:49:47 PM
Back in my hospital pharmacy days anyone that had taken an overdose of anti freeze would be treated with high strength alcohol, or an unlicensed infusion from abroad costing thousands.
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Post by: K2-K6 on January 18, 2021, 08:59:42 PM
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Post by: allankelly1 on January 19, 2021, 04:25:03 PM
I can’t remember the exact science behind it but anti freeze doesn’t break down in the body naturally and slowly poisons you because it can’t leave the system. So the highest strength alcohol available is used to convert the anti freeze into a substance that can be excreted from the body.Yes antifreeze is not good for you
Back in my hospital pharmacy days anyone that had taken an overdose of anti freeze would be treated with high strength alcohol, or an unlicensed infusion from abroad costing thousands.
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It crystallises in the kidneys that then quickly leads to kidney failure hence why is not good to leave out as it tastes sweet so cats and other animals like to drink it
Not nice stuff
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Post by: Erny on January 20, 2021, 12:06:18 AM
It was sometime in Feburary, freezing outside a lot (about -10°C), my wiper motor was running slow. As I planned to go to ski next day 300km away, I knew I need it working properly and fast...
So I started to clean motor gear from old grease.
Due to low temp I was using old fashioned heater (3 red hot spirals,~500W each, not covered at all sat on my working bench around half meter from me). For cleaning, I did not have any better have idea than to use normal gasoline to clean wiper motor inside small baking pan with brush just in front of it.
You can imagine what happened...
I still remeber that moment, brush full of gasoline spaying gasoline directly to non covered red hot spiral - the same second all - baking pan, brush, motor and my hands too (that time no gloves) in big fire!
Fortunately, I quickly extinguished fire on my hand (don't really know how?), opened garage doors and looking on bench in fire (baking pan with gasoline) and fumes from it, started to look for options - no water available, just totally frozen snow outside (-10°C, garage is located outside w/o any heating), no fire extinguisher available... found there one old thick blaket from our couch - took it and threw it onto fire. Fire fortunately stopped immidiately, uffff
really cannot imagine what I would do otherwise, garage full of other flammables like acetone, propane gas bottle etc just nerby..was really happy nothing else happened, even wiper motor was intact ::)
Stupid young impatient 🤦♂️
Post by: gtmdriver on January 20, 2021, 07:56:58 AM
Post by: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on January 20, 2021, 10:23:45 AM
I was doing an oil change on a Triumph Herald and just as the drain plug came out my arm jammed between the sump and the drain can so I drained an entire sump full of hot oil down the sleeve of my overalls.
Ouch - I've none similar but only a relatively small spill as the sump plug came out sooner than expected.