One week ago I helped a friend fix an old cedar fence.
The wind had blown down several sections and we installed five new pressure treated posts and quite a few pressure treated 2 X 4 stringers. I did all the cutting with my old skill saw.
I got a splinter or maybe got bit by a spider and the next day my index finger was sore. Maybe I got a splinter and some of the chemicals from the pressure treated wood entered the wound – I don’t really know what happened.
Each day last week the swelling increased and the soreness persisted and I finally went to the Weekend Emergency Medical Facility today (not the ER in the hospital). The finger was really swollen.
The doctor used a medium size needle and syringe to drain it and gave me prescription for anti biotics (Cephalexin 500 mg)
Guess I’ll get some kind of work gloves. This was really painful.
^^^^^^
“The Older We Get, The Better We Were”
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You're lucky - Mike Guertin did a short article about getting a splinter and almost losing a body part - I don't always wear gloves but I do check for any new breaks in the skin or splinters - anything new gets cleaned and then triple antibiotic with a bandage - rather look silly with multiple bandages than counting to 9 and 1/2
and safety goggles and respirator and ear plugs and hard hat and ......yeh, I'll wear gloves every time : )
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My first laugh of the day : ) LOL
and I did over 40 sq of cedar roofing in those...just scored a new pair offa Ebay : )
Gloves? We don't need no stinkin' gloves......lolIf Blodgett says, Tipi tipi tipi it must be so!
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Maybe the title of this should have been "Wear Protection" but that might have been confusing.^^^^^^
"The Older We Get, The Better We Were"
I wear gloves a lot. Probably because of growing up on the farm, where we frequently wear gloves. Another reason is that since I work in an office most of the time, I don't build up callouses. That means my hands are softer and I get splinters easier. Soft hands are much better for holding babies, playing with boobs, and other similar activities....
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Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
When you stop by to visit you can ask her.(-:
Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.
done...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Soft hands are much better for holding babies, playing with boobs, and other similar activities...."
I dunno, from your handle I thought you were a tough-guy biker who opened bottles of beer with his teeth and smoked straight Camels. Women who like guys like that are not looking for soft hands.
I also wear gloves a lot. But there are tasks that I fumble with for a while and then take them off because they make it harder to do anything precisely. Then I get doing something else where the protection would be a good idea, but I forget to put them back on. Seems I'm always waiting too long to take them off, and waiting too long again to put them back on.
-- J.S.
I use the "Framing gloves".....with the finger tips cut off of the thumb, pointer and middle fingers. Put em on in the morning, take em off at the end of the day.
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
Thanks for all the input and suggestions about gloves. I'm looking at the cheap 100% cotton gloves for a buck a pair. I also like the gloves that look like golfing gloves or a baseball glove but those sell for $18 to $25 per pair.Looking back one of the mistakes I made was I should have drained the finger myself rather than going to the doctor. I think I'm going to pay the physician $85 for his services.In the past I've dug out splinters with a sharp knife and sometimes I've left them in.I've just never had a medical problem like this before.The doctor drained it on sunday. He removed a lot of yellow puss.His instructors for me were to squeeze the finger everyday and keep draining it through the relief hole he provided. I drain it several times aday and it's just a clear liquid and it's felling a lot better.^^^^^^
"The Older We Get, The Better We Were"
ACQ will rip ya new one...
imagine using that stuff for decking material and bare feet.... or kids playing on it.... or the pet romping....
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Cedar splinters kill me. Even the little ones fester and swell.
If I rip alot of cedar on the table saw, mask or not, I soon find it hard to breathe.
Like alot of guys I know, I think I'm developing an alergy to cedar.
On the other hand.
I built a playset out of ACQ the other weekend. I grabbed some gloves because shortly after handling it with my bare hands I could taste the ACQ.
I got a couple of small punctures, no splinters, that day and they hurt like a bugger.
I kept digging with a knife but couldn't find any splinters. Opening the punctures up did offer some relief.
I'm normaly the kind of guy who grunts when I whack my finger with a hammer, wipe the blood off on a pant leg and keep right on working. But man, I sissy right up with a cedar splinter...
PT and cedar ...
always instant puss filled splinters.
just have a sharp utility knife handy. Dig it out and get back to work.
I have gotten into the habit of gloves for rougher work ... had a smashed knuckle to work with for a coupla months ... then right after it healed ... got my "mystery injury" where I couldn't bend my finger .. lotsa pain for another coupla months ...
while babying those ... I started wearing gloves for extra padding/protection.
spent the whole last week in gloves ... tearing apart the partitions of an old barn ... if it wasn't old splinter/bat sh!t covered wood ... it was rusty old nails ... and/or big a$$ barn spiders on everything I touched. I started using the velcro to tighten them up at the wrists after one big spider fell on right on the cuff.
figured I didn't wanna find out what happens when a pissed off barn spider falls into yer glove ... and I'm still trying to pretend it was just a mouthful of cobweb that went down my throat on Thurs morning ...
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
I also had a finger swell up like a mother after painting a house a few years ago; attribute it to a spider bite.
About a month later and a doctors visit, it only hurt when I moved it!!!
Damn thing hung around like the IRS.
PT lumber has no effect on me.
Oh, yeah, I do wear gloves.
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Edited 4/17/2006 12:10 am ET by RRooster
Fugedaboudit !!If you are average, you'll eat at least 8 spiders in your sleep before you die anyway...
We spend zillions on smart bombs.....how about spending zillions on creating smart kids?
~jjwalters
that's the problem ... I'm pretty sure I'm at 9 or 10 already!
I know for a fact I've swallowedmore bugs than I'd like to know about ... used to play in abandon coal mines ... spent my whole youth in the local woods ... choked on lotsa critters ... got a mouthful evey now and then riding the motorcycle ...
actually split my lip wide open when a damn beetle wouldn't yield the right of way ... saw if coming the whole time too! Had to pull over to make sure I didn't chip a tooth ...
But this last ... uh ... cobweb.
yech ... way too "thick" for my tastes ...
had to sip water for about 20 minutes before the scratchy dry spot went away ...
what ever it was ... she was big!
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
LMAO..you too huh?
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
You gotta be kidding me ..Jorge is @ what %? Now?
That is an urban legend the last I heard. But I still think it might be true anyway.
1 - measure the board twice, 2 - cut it once, 3 - measure the space where it is supposed to go 4 - get a new board and go back to step 1
Edited 4/17/2006 11:42 am ET by Ricks503
with Luka that's fact...
he gets the munchies everyso often and town a little too far away...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I've worn gloves since 1987. My hands used to feel like sandpaper. Now they are softer than my wife's.
blue
Yep....been wearin' em for five or six years now.
No matter what I'm doing....framing....finish...demo.
Wife appreciates it a bunch too.
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements