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WCT 22-26 Feb 10
Kugai:
Focus Hanner-san, focus.
Mr Miyagi has left the building
Jeff7:
--- Quote from: westrim on 21 Feb 2010, 21:20 ---Granted though, it is pretty creepy putting the heated end of a paperclip through your fingernail...doesn't hurt though, just don't push too hard and it's easy as pie.
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Yeah, I've never heard of this "treatment" either.
Jimor:
What I've been told to do is to apply pressure to the nail to prevent the pooling of blood beneath it in the first place. I've never smashed a digit hard enough to really test that, though.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: westrim on 21 Feb 2010, 21:20 ---... insane! I wonder who it was that first tried this solution?
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Someone who had lost a nail once before, and realized it was from the pressure beneath. It probably goes back to the days of blood-letting!
You really only need this if the damage infiltrates beneath most of the nail, like Marten's. Smaller trapped blood-blisters just grow out with the nail. It's fun when they reach the end and you can finally scrape them out...
Border Reiver:
--- Quote from: ysth on 21 Feb 2010, 21:54 ---
--- Quote from: westrim on 21 Feb 2010, 21:20 ---
--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 21 Feb 2010, 20:22 ---It's 2322 here in the nation's capital and I'm bored.
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Which nation, Ecuador? How is Quito this time of year?
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You forgot to say "You insensitive clod!"
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I'd be insulted if I actually cared, I don't think that I've come across as Equadorian, or have I?
There are examples of trepanning going back before we know how to write, so the principle of what Hanners is doing is fairly old (cut a hole to release the blood and the pressure to prevent worse damage). I'm just glad that even after all the time I've spent in HMTQ's service, going hiking/hunting/fishing and doing home renos with without safefty boots or glasses I haven't needed more than a band-aid to fix the boo-boos.
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