Cut Yourself Skinning?

[ScottyG]

I got in too big a hurry a few years ago gutting a deer and, oops... I'm still missing the feeling in about a two inch area on the backside of my left thumb.  A quick stab severed a nerve.  It didn't bleed all that much, but it gives me a pretty regular reminder to take my time with the gutting work.   

[poohdog]

I cut myself a few years back getting the last few hairs around the base of the horns and it didn't bleed.  A few days later I notice a red line from my finger to my arm pit.  I went to the hospital and they told me a few more inches and I could have been dead.  Just a reminder to clean any cut good if it bleeds or not.

[SilkWWU]

I cut myself a few years back getting the last few hairs around the base of the horns and it didn't bleed.  A few days later I notice a red line from my finger to my arm pit.  I went to the hospital and they told me a few more inches and I could have been dead.  Just a reminder to clean any cut good if it bleeds or not.

What did you have?

[longstevo]

Holy S**t!   

You guys need to be careful!  Bleeding out all alone in the woods is nothing to take lightly.  Whenever I'm skinning something out, its always slow and careful. 

It wasn't too long ago that that one dude up in Alaska sliced his leg open and nearly died from blood loss while his buddy went for help.  They finally airlifted him out, but it was close. 

Sorry, I don't mean to come on here and harp and b!tch, but this is a serious risk.  I know that a lot of the posts are of knicked fingers and close calls, but like the topic creator's post of getting stabbed next to the femoral...

Damn...wow.  Scary. 

[SilkWWU]

Holy S**t!   

You guys need to be careful!  Bleeding out all alone in the woods is nothing to take lightly.  Whenever I'm skinning something out, its always slow and careful. 

It wasn't too long ago that that one dude up in Alaska sliced his leg open and nearly died from blood loss while his buddy went for help.  They finally airlifted him out, but it was close. 

Sorry, I don't mean to come on here and harp and b!tch, but this is a serious risk.  I know that a lot of the posts are of knicked fingers and close calls, but like the topic creator's post of getting stabbed next to the femoral...

Damn...wow.  Scary. 

Um, ya scary is an understatement...But thankfully, after going into the doctor and getting my tetanus, I asked him how close I was to any danger, and he told me I wasn't really close.  He said it's pretty tough to actually slice your femoral because it's down by your groin, my cut was more on the top inner thigh.  But still, I will be moving 100% slower for the rest of my life.  I was cutting safely, but I think I was moving to fast and that's what did me in.

[longstevo]

Um, ya scary is an understatement...But thankfully, after going into the doctor and getting my tetanus, I asked him how close I was to any danger, and he told me I wasn't really close.  He said it's pretty tough to actually slice your femoral because it's down by your groin, my cut was more on the top inner thigh.  But still, I will be moving 100% slower for the rest of my life.  I was cutting safely, but I think I was moving to fast and that's what did me in.

So glad to hear that you're alright.  Had to be pretty painful too, huh?
Did you get a good animal out of it at least?

[robb92]

Done it a couple of times gutting deer and also cutting them up. If I am out in the woods I carry my first aid kit with some super glue in it, I will clean the cut with iodine and then dry it and close it with super glue.

[poohdog]

I had blood poisoning and if the line makes it to your heart it can kill you.  You cant miss the line if you get it.