Nurses on my flist!
Jun. 5th, 2008 10:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ihearthings_iiAnd other people knowledgable about owies: ( I apologized for grossness )
Tuesday afternoon I shaved my legs. I had my left leg up on the sink and the razor above my ankle. My foot slipped and I took off a strip of skin about 1x0,5 inch right above my ankle.
It's not deep, but it bled a lot. and it kept bleeding. and bleeding. ( I suspect I have thin blood. I seem to bleed a lot, when I do. ) it was still sort of bleeding yesterday afternoon. not as fast or as much, but definitly bleeding.
My mom always told me to not keep bandaids on during the night to let the wound air out, but as I said, it kept bleeding. also, it's a fairly big area, and I didn't want stuff to get in it, so I left it on.
This morning I woke up, and after putzing about for a while, I wanted to take the bandaid off and put a new one on - I actually would have left it, but there was a drop of something that ran from it - it was pinkish. (the bandaid I took off yesterday was very wet as well. is it infected? )
the problem:
it's stuck. I tried to take it off, but it really, really hurts.
for now, I've let it sit. I've wrapped some clean cotton wool around it, and then wrapped that in gauze, but please tell me what I'm supposed to do? (you're going to tell me that I have to take it off, right? >_< )
please halp!
Tuesday afternoon I shaved my legs. I had my left leg up on the sink and the razor above my ankle. My foot slipped and I took off a strip of skin about 1x0,5 inch right above my ankle.
It's not deep, but it bled a lot. and it kept bleeding. and bleeding. ( I suspect I have thin blood. I seem to bleed a lot, when I do. ) it was still sort of bleeding yesterday afternoon. not as fast or as much, but definitly bleeding.
My mom always told me to not keep bandaids on during the night to let the wound air out, but as I said, it kept bleeding. also, it's a fairly big area, and I didn't want stuff to get in it, so I left it on.
This morning I woke up, and after putzing about for a while, I wanted to take the bandaid off and put a new one on - I actually would have left it, but there was a drop of something that ran from it - it was pinkish. (the bandaid I took off yesterday was very wet as well. is it infected? )
the problem:
it's stuck. I tried to take it off, but it really, really hurts.
for now, I've let it sit. I've wrapped some clean cotton wool around it, and then wrapped that in gauze, but please tell me what I'm supposed to do? (you're going to tell me that I have to take it off, right? >_< )
please halp!
