04-29-2019, 11:54 PM
Well, I certainly wasn't fishing. Lol, I was loading my dishwasher and reached in without looking and grabbed a dirty knife. It wasn't a bad cut at all, no bleeding, etc. I never thought a simple cut could cause something like this. I cleaned it with alcohol or peroxide (can't remember which, and put a bandaid on it. When I woke up in the morning it was swollen and blistering. The blisters were like bubble wrap--I could press on them and hear popping. I actually went to a CVS Minute Clinic and they freaked and told me I had to go to the ER. I thought they were full of sh*t, and thank goodness did within the hour. I've never gone to an ER and not waited hours to be seen. I was triaged immediately and they made me go by ambulance to a hospital with a hand surgeon on duty who was waiting at the ER when I got there and immediately took me into surgery. It still didn't hit me how serious it was until after arguing that I felt fine that they bluntly told me I was 4 hours away from losing my hand and 12 hours from dying. I always thought this stuff was kind of an urban myth until it happened to me. I learned quick that it's always better to be safe rather than sorry later.