Needa BAND-AID

[Magicman]

I keep a couple of boxes in my work truck passenger door and have one in my wallet.  They are in my shop, at the Cabin, and of course here in the First-Aid kit here at home.

I celebrate a day that does not require a Band-Aid. 

[doc henderson]

the cloth style conforms better, but I think the plasticky ones stick better in sweat etc.  We use tincture of benzoin with steri-strips, and you can barely pull them off with a fingernail.  It is a sticky skin prep that makes sticky things stick more stickier! 

[Old Greenhorn]

Gee I dunno. I have used those Band-aid brand plastic ones and find them pretty useless. Maybe you have a hospital variety Doc?
 I like the Moore Medical brand of fabric ones. I am not so prepared as Lynn, but I always have my little trama bag (or two) in the truck with a few in it. I also try to keep a few of the 2" wide ones handy as they can help keep a cut clean if it's bigger than a small cut. Mostly I just wipe it off and move on, then take care of it in the evening when I can do it right. Unless of course, I am bleeding all over what ever I am working on. If you think sticker stain is hard to get out, try blood stain sometime.

[gspren]

I've surprized a few people through the years by opening my wallet and handing them a needed band-aid.

[GAB]

Unless of course, I am bleeding all over what ever I am working on. If you think sticker stain is hard to get out, try blood stain sometime.

Tom:
I'm glad to read that I am not the only one who signs his work in blood.
GAB

[Magicman]

I am not so prepared as Lynn,

As you get older (more manure) your skin gets thinner so you tend to be better prepared.

[Old Greenhorn]

No doubt Lynn! I am experiencing some of that now. Bump a log with my shin and I bleed. Catch a piece of flying bark on my forearm and I really bleed. But I tend to ignore it and many times I don't even notice it. I went in the convenience store at the end of a workday full of sweat to get an ice cream to cool off and the clerk looked at me like I was the walking dead. Turns out my whole right forearm was covered in dried blood and I never noticed it...... But she did.
 My mom's skin was so thin I had to be very careful when I helped her get out of a chair. With her blood thinners it could be a ral bear of a job to get her to stop bleeding.

 I am just not as well prepared as may e I should be because all bleeding stops.... Eventually. Now I do usually have a tourniquet handy most of the time . Those type cuts are hard to ignore.

[Magicman]

My (late) Mom would sideswipe a door facing and take the whole side of her arm off.  I am talking about inches of skin rolled back.  It was sometimes a real job to get it folded back in place and then smear some antibiotic salve on and loosely bandage it.  

I have knocked hide off through my long sleeve shirt and not know it until I noticed the blood soaked sleeve. 

Actually I am not complaining, just glad that I am still keeping on keeping on.

[Peter Drouin]

I bleed every day when working cutting lumber. Bad cuts get supper glue. I clean it well with a sos pad first.

[Ed_K]

 I was a boarder line bleeder as a kid, now with a blood thinner and an aspirin a day I bleed and get black an blues real easy. A cut on your ear and it'll bleed an bleed. Just had a raspberry sized skin cancer cut off my ear, now that's something that hurts more than anything and bleeds for ever. Dr. had to cauterize a bunch of bleeders. When we cleaned it every morning and night the Band-Aids hurt like crazy when Rita pulled off the old one's, they were the cloth kind, with plastic one's to close the sides.