Cut fingernail with knife: I cut off half my fingernail; here’s what not to do – Live Full or Die Eating

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I cut off half my fingernail; here’s what not to do – Live Full or Die Eating

Last year for my birthday, my boyfriend Luke bought me a new set of Shun kitchen knives. I don’t mean the three-piece set with all your essentials, either.

It was an eight-piece student set complete with a knife roll to carry everything in and a honing steel – as if the blades would need any sharpening. Ever.

The six knives that may eventually lead to me losing an entire digit one day. Until then, I’ll learn how use them without any injury.

The first thing told him – after I could catch my breath and say thank you – was, “I just want you to know I am going to lose a finger. Or a fingertip, at the very least.

So here I was, more about eight months later, prepping some veggies in the kitchen to add to the pot of already sizzling onions and garlic. It was Angeli Wright’s last day at the office and we had a potluck at 2 p.m. I was making a mad dash to finish the fried rice I had decided at the last minute to bring to the farewell party.

(It’s going to get graphic – proceed with caution)

Then it happened. I was slicing away at the carrots I had already cut into strips and was preparing to dice when my 8-inch chef’s knife sliced into my index finger.

Immediately I set my knife down and squeezed my finger. The blood started coming quick. At that point I realized the cut was not just a slight incision on my index finger, it was far worse.

A few expletives escaped my mouth and Luke was asking if I was OK from the hallway. I could hear the concern in his voice.

I glanced over at the knife’s edge and I could see the dull reflection of the stove light on the fingernail that was still stuck the slick metal like a diced carrot. Thinking quickly, I swiped it off the blade and threw it into the sink. The sound of my fingernail hitting the stainless steel sink still echoes in my mind – it bounced off the side of the sink before it rested at the bottom. I turned on the faucet washed it down the drain.

Luke had made it to my side at this point and I was holding my hand above my head and squeezing my finger to slow the flow of blood. I nearly passed out, too. My body was soaked in sweat and I could feel myself losing balance, I don’t know if it was the blood lost or the sight of my finger, but I pulled through and rallied. I had to.

Motherfucker!

I was pissed. I knew better than to cut myself that bad. I’d cut carrots for fried rice countless times. My concentration was lacking; I still had stories to turn in before my sister arrived at 2:40 p.m., Warrior Dash was Saturday, I needed to pack for Austin for Friday and I still had onions and garlic going on the stove.

Hurriedly, I stuck some dry gauze on the biased cut on my finger, which if you are properly yielding a knife while slicing should not have been the case. I washed my hands, wrapped that sucker up with, I remind you, dry gauze and secured it with tape. That was the worse idea I had ever made – possibly in my life, yet.

The deed was done. I had wrapped her up tight without any ointment. Never do this.

Luke tossed the carrots, washed the cutting board and the knife and I started over again. I finished cutting the carrots and moved on to sautéing the celery I had diced earlier in the same pan as the onions and garlic that, thankfully, were salvageable. I finished the fried rice – remarkably on time despite my kitchen snafu.

We all brought our potluck dishes to the feast and the farewell party was a success. I left to pick up my sister and returned in time for Angeli’s goodbye speech. I even have the video on my phone still.

I suffered through typing without my pointer and we left the office. We ventured off to the mall so I could pay some bills and then returned home to celebrate Christmas in March. I got a rad Mr. Omelet Pan from my sister and a few other treasures from the family back home in New Mexico.

Later that night, after about 10 hours of having that gauze on my finger, I attempted to pull it off. It was useless. I couldn’t do it. That mother was all up in that cut and all because I didn’t put any triple antibiotic ointment on it. I tried repeatedly to run it under warm water, soak it in warm salt water and then pull it off.

The tiniest most stubborn piece of gauze I’ve ever met.

It wasn’t going to happen. So instead I hit the bar with a few friends and my sister, whose name is Julie by the way.

The next day, we tried to pull off the tiny piece of gauze again. I had to use a pillow to scream into while Luke tried to run my hand under water and pull it off without me looking. We decided it was time to hit up the walk-in clinic.

I know, this is a long post, but in the end you might thank me – or hate me for wasting your time. Nevertheless, I hope you leave this post learning something new.

So we hit up the walk-in clinic up the street. I wrote on the little piece of paper that is meant to explain my visit “sliced off my fingernail” and handed it to her. She read it and asked, “You what?”

“I sliced off half my fingernail and now I can’t get the gauze off.”

“When did it happen?”

“Yesterday.”

“Owwwwww,” she said as she shudders in her seat. “Does it hurt?”

“Not right now. ”

“OK. Just have a seat.”

We sat there for about 30 minutes Snapchatting our friends photos, videos and illustrations of my injury.

After a while of cracking jokes and laughing about my predicament in the waiting room, I was called back to the exam room for my vitals and then into a room where Julie and I made ourselves comfortable.

The nurse pulled out a pink plastic bin and filled with water and a bit of Hibiclens – great stuff to include in any home emergency first-aid kit. I was soaking my finger. Again.

And we soaked it for about half an hour. Probably closer to 45 minutes. Then Haley (her last name escapes me) walked in. She had a purpose. There as conviction in her step and a look in her eyes that meant she didn’t fuck around.

“Have you tried pulling off, yet?”

“Nope,” I responded quickly and with a glare in her direction. I wagged my finger in the water, and I told her I could tell it wasn’t coming off yet.

She walked over to the cabinet, pulled out a smaller pink kidney bean-shaped bin and filled it with warm water and more Hibiclens. Haley told me to continue soaking and left again.

Julie and I joked that this was my soaking for my upcoming manicure.

When she returned, she went back to the cabinet and pulled out a pair of sterilized medial forceps. The kind with the angled edge and two little round tips, better to hold gauze with. She told me to pull my hand out of the solution and she attempted to pull at the tiny, stubborn piece of gauze. I let out a whimper.

We were set on taking a trot around the Riverside Park after the walk-in visit so I was trying my damnedest to position my boys size 4 sneakers to brace myself. My other hand was firmly on my thigh and my fingers digging into my muscle.

She tugged once or twice more and returned my hand other the pink bin. She continued to try to pull off the gauze and I continued to let out a few short cries of agony. If you don’t think that shit hurt – you are dead fucking wrong.

Haley set down her weapon and left the room. This time, the door was left ajar.

What’s happening? Is she coming back with help? Is she going to give me drugs?

She came back and shut the door behind.

“You’re going to try again?” I asked disheartened.

“Yes. It has to come off,” Haley answered very plainly.

I covered my eyes tightly with my right hand. My fingers dug right into the temples and my eyebrow as though sealing all the light out of my eyes would lessen the blow that was about to happen. My feet were angled for impact as if I were in a roller coaster preparing for the highest descent. If I were in grass, the heel of my right sneaker would have been inches in the first and the toes of my left sneaker equally so.

Then I all I heard was Velcro.

That sound when you’re a kid and you’re taking off your sneakers after a long day at school and you finally get to take off your shoes.

It was that sound, but instead of Velcro. It was a the sound of that blasted piece of gauze that I haphazardly applied to my vicious wound the day before.

“FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Was all I heard for the next three seconds. I had jumped in the air and if I had a free hand (my right hand now gripping my left hand tightly to subdue the pain and bleeding) I would have punched a hole in something.

Two nurses came running into the room with worried looks on their faces. Haley was standing now, telling me things that were meant to soothe me. I was sobbing uncontrollably, probably cursing like a sailor.

She moved my hand back onto the lined tray and then into the kidney-shaped bin. There was so much blood. It was pooling at the bottom of the solution.

As I cried and looked at Julie, all she could tell me was, “You’re OK. You did good,” as she stroked my shoulder.

The nurses wrapped up my re-injured finger and we were left there to hang out again until my finger and all them tiny white blood cells did their thing and clot. Motherfucker.

This is the cleaned up version of the aftermath that ensued when that piece of gauze was pulled from my pointer. After Haley re-injured my digit, she wrapped it up and we had to wait for it to clot before we could bounce.

The doctor came in this time and asked me a few questions about the cut and if I had a tetanus shot within the past few years. Luckily I updated my vaccinations when I visited my friend Josh in Guatemala in 2011. Or was it 2012? Regardless, I could forego getting a shot. I friggin’ hate shots. Loathe them.

She inspected my injured digit and prescribed an antibiotic just to be safe. Fortunately, I wasn’t chopping raw meat of any kind. Just blasted carrots.

So here’s the best advice I’ve probably given so far in my nearly 30 years of living, which can be supported by the nurses and not just my stupidity: If you slice off half your fingernail or the tip of your finger, clean it as best you can and smother it in triple antibiotic, AKA Bacitracin. If you don’t have that, wet a towel or gauze – key word is WET – wrap up your wound and head to the walk-in clinic. To slow the bleeding, hold you injury above your head and use your non-injured hand to create a makeshift tourniquet around your finger.

Another big lesson to learn from this is to never ever use regular gauze. They sell this fancy non-stick gauze that is basically the same thing as that little patch of gauze on any Bandaid.

I recently discovered that they also sell Bacitracin with pain reliever now. That’s probably a must have for the emergency first-aid kit, too.

It’s been almost two weeks since the kitchen snafu and it’s healed up pretty nicely. I can type again and I’ve been able to go commando – no Bandaid – for about four days now.

As much as it hurt to slice off a piece of my finger, it hasn’t deterred me from picking up that 8-inch chef’s knife again. That’s not going to happen any time soon. I like to cook (and eat) too much.

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Medically reviewed by Elaine K. Luo, M.D. — By Erica Hersh — Updated on October 9, 2018

Overview

Nail bed injuries are a type of fingertip injury, which is the most common type of hand injury seen in hospital emergency rooms. They can be minor or they can also be very painful and uncomfortable, even limiting your finger movement.

Nail bed injuries can occur many ways. Often, they happen when your nail’s caught between two objects or hit by something heavy, such as being slammed in a door, having something being dropped on it, or being hit by a hammer. They can also be caused by cuts, such as from a knife or a saw.

Nail bed injuries are almost always treatable but in rare cases can cause nail deformities.

When your fingertip or your nail bed is pinched, crushed, or cut, it causes a nail bed injury.

Crushing can happen when your finger gets caught between two objects or in a doorway. Heavy objects falling on your finger can also cause injuries to the nail bed, as can being hit by a hammer.

Cuts to your fingertip, nail bed, or the tendons that you use to straighten and bend your fingertip can all cause nail bed injuries. Cuts to nerve endings in your fingertip can also cause nail bed injuries.

Nail bed injuries can cause:

blood to pool under your nail
your nail to crack into pieces
your nail to be torn off

There are many types of nail bed injuries, including:

Subungual hematoma

A subungual hematoma is when blood gets trapped under your nail bed. It’s usually caused by your nail getting crushed or hit by a heavy object. Symptoms include throbbing pain and your nail turning black and blue. This usually looks like a bruise under your nail.

Nail bed laceration

A nail bed laceration is when your nail and the underlying nail bed get cut. It’s usually caused by a saw or knife but can also be caused by a crushing injury. If you have a nail bed laceration, it’s likely to bleed. You’ll be able to see the cut through your nail. As it heals, you might have a large bruise.

Nail bed avulsion

A nail bed avulsion is when your nail and part of your nail bed are pulled away from the rest of your finger. It commonly happens to your ring finger and is caused by your finger getting stuck or jammed in something. Nail bed avulsions are very painful and cause your finger to swell. Finger fractures are also common with this type of injury.

If you have a nail bed avulsion, your nail will have to be removed if it hasn’t come off during the injury.

Other injuries

There are also nail bed injuries that affect more than your nail bed, such as a fingertip fracture or amputation.

Many injuries to your nail bed can be fully repaired. For example, your nail should return to normal after a subungual hematoma is drained. However, some severe injuries can lead to a deformed nail. This is more likely when the base of your nail bed is injured.

The most common complications of nail bed injuries are hook nail and a split nail. A hook nail occurs when your nail doesn’t have enough bony support and curves around your finger. It can be treated by removing your nail and trimming some of the nail matrix, which is the tissue your nail rests on.

A split nail happens because your nail can’t grow over scar tissue. It’s treated by removing the nail that’s already grown and treating or removing the scar so new nail can grow properly.

If all or part of your nail is removed, it will grow back. It takes approximately a week for a fingernail to start growing back and three to six months for it to totally grow back. After the nail’s removed, you’ll need to keep your fingertip covered while your nail starts to grow back.

Many nail bed injuries require a doctor. However, there are several steps you should take before seeing a doctor when you injure your nail bed:

Remove all jewelry from your hands. If your finger’s too swollen to get a ring off, call your doctor immediately.
Gently wash the injury, especially if it’s bleeding.
Apply a bandage if necessary.

If your injury is minor, you may be able to treat it at home. For example, if your subungual hematoma is small (one-fourth the size of your nail or less), you don’t need to see a doctor. In addition, if your nail is completely removed and the nail bed or rest of your finger isn’t injured, you may not need to see a doctor.

If you have a deep cut in your nail bed, you should see a doctor, especially if it doesn’t stop bleeding. Subungual hematomas that cover more than a quarter of your nail also need medical treatment.

If your finger is very swollen or painful, or if you think it’s fractured, you should see your doctor for an evaluation.

Last medically reviewed on July 11, 2018

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Many people are tormented by the question – why do some grow a long nail on the little finger. If you ask the owners of such “decorations”, you can hear many options. Someone will tell you that he uses the nail as a handy tool, and someone will tell that he needs it for beauty. But the very custom of growing such a nail, it turns out, is very old and was used at different times for different purposes.

It is believed that for the first time the nails on the little fingers of the left hand began to grow in the 17th century by European nobles. The nail had a purely practical meaning – they opened letters sealed with wax seals. In offices and offices, this was done with special knives, but in “field” conditions this could only be done with a sword or a long nail.

Of course, it was extremely inconvenient to open letters with a sword, so the aristocrats grew a special nail on the little finger of their left hand. They held a weapon in their right hand, and the left was, as it were, out of business and the device for printing out correspondence did not bother anyone. But even a left-hander had no problems with such a nail, since in fencing the main role is played by the index, middle and ring fingers.

The fashion for a long nail in high society persisted until the beginning of the 20th century, until letters began to be sealed not with sealing wax, but with glue. But in France in the 18th century, the nail on the little finger had another purpose, more delicate. At one time, knocking on doors was considered a sign of bad taste, and well-bred nobles scratched with their fingernails. Surely it was not easy to “get across” to the sleeping lady, but the fact remains.

In the 20th century, the nail on the little finger from the privilege of aristocrats became a sign of a person involved in the criminal world. In Soviet, and then in Russian prisons and colonies, only authoritative inmates could afford such a nail. Thieves in law and various “statists” did not work, and the nail, as it were, said that its owner was not used to dirtying his hands and could afford to do manicures.

Often by the little finger they recognized card cheats, whom a long nail helped to make a fraudulent eat, called a “volt”. With a fingernail, the “katals” skillfully separated the cards, achieving such an order in the deck that they needed. Young people, among whom criminal romance has always been popular, imitated the representatives of the underworld and also got themselves such a nail.

In the 70s of the last century, a real drug boom began in the United States. To make it convenient to separate portions of cocaine or heroin, drug dealers and ordinary drug addicts used the nail on the little finger. It was also used for the use of cocaine – a portion of the powder was “sniffed” from the nail. This is how a measure of the weight of cocaine called nail (nail) appeared.

Today, most men with such a pinky nail simply think that it is original and stylish. In Asian countries, where some guys don’t cut their nails at all for months, the little finger jewelry can be astonishingly long.

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How to cope with the task without the help of a professional master? For tips on how to remove cuticles yourself, search below

Contents

Tools for removing cuticles at home
How to use the cuticle remover?
Cuticle removal at home without circumcision
Proper cuticle removal: 4 tips

In such a case as removing the cuticle, if not the knowledge of an experienced nail master, then at least a great deal of neatness will be required. The fact is that this skin roller around the nail plate performs an important function – it protects the nail roots from pollution and damage. By “covering” the nails at the base, the cuticle ensures that the nails grow healthy and strong. Therefore, when removing it, you need to be especially careful – you can damage the nail even by careless pressing.

Cuticle removal tools at home

To remove the cuticle yourself, you must first have all the necessary items, tools and tools.

Tray . The cuticle is in any case removed much easier in a softened state. Therefore, getting down to business, you must first hold your fingertips in warm water for 5-10 minutes.
Pliers . This is a cut manicure tool: if you are sure that you will not leave wounds on the skin in the process, you can use this method. However, unedged manicure is a more gentle procedure that eliminates almost all unpleasant consequences.

Pusher . This is a metal tool with a spatula tip, which is convenient for pushing back the cuticle and completely removing dead skin particles separated by the remover gel.
Orange sticks . They are used in the same way as a pusher. However, this is a less traumatic tool, as it is made of wood.
Remover . This is a key tool for those who do not want to risk wielding tweezers. As a rule, it is a gel or cream that exfoliates dead skin cells and thus allows you to “clean” the space around the nails – there will be no more “growths”. It is important that fruit acids are the basis of the formula of such a product, so look at the label for the composition.

It is worth noting that experts usually advise not to trim the cuticle.

Firstly, in order not to deprive the nails of the very protection on which their health depends.

Secondly, in order to completely exclude the possibility of injury or cuts – any damage in the cuticle area, as a rule, becomes very inflamed and heals for a long time and painfully. And if the instruments are not sterile, there is a risk of infection.

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How to use the cuticle remover?

It is very easy to do an unedged manicure without the help of a professional: you can even do without a bath, although adding this step to the procedure will not be superfluous.

All that is required is to apply the remover to the skin around the nails and wait the prescribed 5-7 minutes, which are necessary for the chemical composition of the product to work.

Using a pusher, gently remove the gel mixed with dead skin particles – the space around the nails should become “clean”.

Using the same pusher or a softer orange stick, push the skin further away from the nail plate. This will not only make your hands visually even more well-groomed, but will also allow you to varnish your nails with more care afterward – there will be no risk that it will “flood” your skin.

Finally, soften the skin around the nails with cream or oil so that the result maintains a flawless look for as long as possible.

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Cuticle removal at home without circumcision

If there is no cuticle remover at hand or, for example, you are not sure how to use it, you can do an unedged manicure without using it.

Soften the skin around the nails in a warm bath. You need to lower your fingertips into it for 5-10 minutes. You can add sea salt to the water. She disinfects. Also, it strengthens the nails. Both will be useful in manicure.

As soon as the skin is no longer dry, you can push back the cuticle with a pusher or an orange stick. Work on each nail in turn. However, strong pressure is contraindicated – if you overdo it, perhaps after the nails will grow bumpy.

This method of getting rid of the cuticle, however, is only suitable for those who do not grow much. When the growths, on the contrary, are very noticeable, the skin will “bully” if you just move it closer to the base of the nails. It will not work without completing the procedure with tweezers or nail scissors.

Proper Cuticle Removal: 4 Tips

Neatness comes first: take your time and do not make sudden, careless movements using the pusher and orange sticks. Do not press on the root of the nails, do not scratch their surface. Otherwise, it will be difficult to restore them in the future.

Try to reduce the use of tweezers and scissors to zero. Cut the cuticle only where it is really necessary, in other places it is better to push it back.