[Swamp_Thing]

Uh, if you die of infection, can i have your models?

Seriously dude, allthough that tale was kind of funny and all, go see a doctor. At least try to desinfect the area. Get a razor, cut the hair, and empty a bottle of peroxide. You don´t want a bacterial infection that close to the brain.
And without wanting to derail this, even if your health insurance has expired, shouldn´t you be able to receive free treatment in your local hospital´s ER? I mean, if you were dying, would they deny you treatment until the check cleared at the bank??

[Clave]

Ouchie! - get someone to look at that...

Hmm.. I remember bolt-bombs, those things were extremely dangerous...

[Nico]

...
idiot

[Nuke]

the most devistating homade weapon i made was a makeshift bow and arrow i fashoned from fiberglass tent poles that someone threw away.  i attached two poles together etched notches in each end and used a length of twine to make the bow bow. for a projectile i used electrical shrink wrap to attach 2 metal spines to the end of another pole, which had wires going to a charged 220 volt capacitor i had shrink-wrapped to the side of the shaft. after electricuting myself a couple times i charged it up with a voltage generator and went into the woods. i shot an unsuspecting squirrel. it was quite intresting, singed his fur pretty bad and made a kick ass spark effect, though i think it was the impalement that killed it.

[Flipside]

Bobb, any head injury is a risk, get to hospital and at least get it looked at, it looks like a surface wound, but better safe than sorry
My main concern is that several rather large veins run up the side of your head to feed blood to your scalp for cooling. If you've damaged one of those you 'might' have bleeding, which will increase pressure and possibly lead to concussion or worse.

[Nico]

pah, that's just a scratch, he won't die from that

[Grug]

This is our SCP whizz!?

LMAO!

[Kie99]

Singh's right, you should definitely go to a doctor.  When you have a piece of metal, that's not necessarilly clean sticking into your head, its insane not to.

EDIT:  And if you die from this I'll start a thread about giving you a Darwin award.

[Flaser]

aaahh....

The American Spirit: either don't do **** or immediately go see a doctor...
It's still just a wound, albeit on his head - but not a bonebraking or deep one it's simply long and painful.
Clean it out and apply acohol (make sure you don't use it up all internally).

I often used to go fishing with my father and grandfather and had fishing hooks in me several times - for the reference those hooks were inside fishguts, covered in worm blood and ect. befor making it into my hand and so on...

Bleed out the wound, clear it with clear water, apply anti infectant (alcohol, booze, iode solvent), leave bare and sit back.

[Mefustae]

Originally posted by Flaser
Bleed out the wound, clear it with clear water, apply anti infectant (alcohol, booze, iode solvent), leave bare and sit back.

I'd go for the Booze, you can get into a nice rythm there; "One for you *Splash*, one for me *Gulp*, one for you *Splash*, one for me *Gulp*, etc.

[Flipside]

Originally posted by Nico
pah, that's just a scratch, he won't die from that

LOL I 99.9% agree with you Nico, but even 0.1% chances have to crop up sometimes Personally, I'd just go see the Doctor and see what he says, but I'm not sure how the whole medical system works in America

[Carl]

Bobboau one week from now:

well i went to the docter and he sed that i had the brane damege. my hed bump is not good feelin. ther is lots ov not good colers of goo coming owt of it. tey tuk teh cote hanger owt but my hed are feling bad stil.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Flipside


LOL I 99.9% agree with you Nico, but even 0.1% chances have to crop up sometimes Personally, I'd just go see the Doctor and see what he says, but I'm not sure how the whole medical system works in America

I beileve it's more like 99.99999% there's a chance of that ridiculous scratch of nothing turning bad.
I've had rusty nails through my foot, I've fallen along a whole tree, peeling all my skin on that side (from shoulder to half thigh, yeah, it hurst a lot), the true being covered with lichen, and so my woulnd being full of it too, I've fallen many times ending with little rocks sliping under my skin (fun to remove ), I've once been stupid enough to try to open a can with a cutter, and had the rare opportunity of watching my hand's vare bones (very cool ), etc etc, and I've never been to the hospital just for that My stance on it: unless it hurts to the point it's unbearable, you lose lot of blood, or you have something broken, it's not worth it

Okaaaay! Let us compare our wounds of war, matey!

Carl: that's Bob's usual spelling, no?

[Ford Prefect]

Originally posted by Carl
Bobboau one week from now:

well i went to the docter and he sed that i had the brane damege. my hed bump is not good feelin. ther is lots ov not good colers of goo coming owt of it. tey tuk teh cote hanger owt but my hed are feling bad stil.

LMAO @ "the brane damege"

[Grug]

Originally posted by Carl
Bobboau one week from now:

well i went to the docter and he sed that i had the brane damege. my hed bump is not good feelin. ther is lots ov not good colers of goo coming owt of it. tey tuk teh cote hanger owt but my hed are feling bad stil.

LMAO.

[Bobboau]

yeah it seems the brain 'damage' has actualy improved my spelling.

I have a pollicy of not getting medical intervention unless it's absolutely nessisary, it A) helps my imune system by letting it develop a nice library of pathgens, B) reduces the problem of anti-biotics being overused and thus haveing resistant bugs, and C) saves me a lot of cash (and exploritory pain)

I've only had to go to the hospital once in the last few years, it was when I had a blader infection and pissing blood, unable to stand, and on the pot 24/7. and I still consitered just ignoring it and going to work. at times I wish I had, the **** they put me through 'just to make sure'


it didn't hit any arteries, because it hardly bled at all (I actualy would have prefered it had as to wash the wound out) but this isn't a scrach, all you see is the opening, it's more of a puncture wound. it doesn't hurt any worse than it did last night (slightly sore) it'll probly be totaly healed in three days from now.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]No luck Bob. I stopped doing **** like this a while back when I accidently slashed into my palm with a scalpel whilst cutting PVC piping.

I take every precaution now, I think I'd be a bit more pissed about losing a finger or eye than about fudging something I was working on.
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[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by Flaser
The American Spirit: either don't do **** or immediately go see a doctor...

These days, the American Spirit is not going to a doctor and then suing them for malpractice.

[Taristin]

So... so close to a Darwin award...

[Bobboau]

I tried my best...