Owwwww!

Last month, I was trying to carve a hunting bow in the garage one night and badly cut myself accidentally with my Excel Hobby Blade Corp 16007 Wood Carving Knife that I was using. I was holding one end of the stick with my left hand and carving towards it. Blood drops splattered on the floor and I immediately stopped what I was doing to take care of the cut.

First I ran it under some water and after a few seconds decided I should first stop the bleeding. I got a paper towel to tie around my finger and when the bleeding slowed down, I applied some New Skin first aid antiseptic liquid bandage. After the liquid bandage dried, I secured some gauze around my cut finger with first aid tape. To prevent the bandage from getting wet while I was taking a shower, I covered it with some saran wrap. Whenever I removed the old bandage to put on a new one, I had to be careful so that the skin didn’t peel off with the bandage.

After two days of covering the cut, I decided to keep the cut exposed to the air. The cut didn’t appear to be healing while it was bandaged. I suspect that’s because the bandage traps in the moisture so that the damaged skin or cut can’t dry out and make way for new skin cells. Now the cut is almost healed!