Aging

[Texas Ranger]

I have discovered a new thing in aging.  I cannot do a project, no matter how straight forward and simple, without drawing blood.  Usually simple, non catastrophic, non debilitating, but blood on the project.  I guess I could say I am leaving dna for future generations to struggle with.

[GAB]

I have discovered a new thing in aging.  I cannot do a project, no matter how straight forward and simple, without drawing blood.  Usually simple, non catastrophic, non debilitating, but blood on the project.  I guess I could say I am leaving dna for future generations to struggle with.

There is nothing like signing your work in blood.
GAB

[Crusarius]

I always call it marking my territory

[K-Guy]

About 12 or 13 years ago my son was 3-4 when he held up my hand and asked if everyone who worked had cuts all the time. At the time I still worked on the shop floor with stainless and aluminum. ;D

[sawguy21]

Yep. It goes with the territory. If I'm not bleeding I'm not working very hard. :

[doc henderson]

I try to wear heavy jeans and gloves working with wood. but if I am out in the shop and get into something without proper attire, it is amazing how just bumping into a log will scratch my leg.  My son is 18 and will always ask what happened and usually it is a minor bump on an abrasive surface, and half the time I don't even know.  He looks at me like it must of been catastrophic! .  I wear the double knee Carhart jeans and the mechanics gloves.

[moodnacreek]

Ageing is something I would not recommend .

[DFILER2]

...although getting older is better than the alternative.

[K-Guy]

I don't mind the bites I get from working with hands as much as the aches I get from waking up in the morning. :D :D

[Don P]

A good carpenter bleeds every day. A bad carpenter bleeds all day every day . Sad thing is I'm leaving a wider blood trail than I used to.

[florida]

This is no joke, the last time I bought Bandaids I bought 6 boxes of 100. I keep them in my car, truck, Atv, and my wallet. One day my wife asked me if I knew I had 9 Bandaids on  my legs and arms. I can't walk around the yard in shorts without bleeding.

[Texas Ranger]

I am not alone!

[charles mann]

even with gloves, i still i find a way to make my hands or fingers bleed. i was putting a 2"x6"x1/4", 6' long cross bunk in, and dang it if it was a mm to long. i was supporting it from the 1/2"x2" bar that would support it while i tacked in place. i wasn't thinking, mediumly whacked the main frame with my 3lb shop hammer, and dang it if that cross bunk didn't fall. i felt the tip of my finger open up and secs later, blood started oozing out of the glove finger. i pulled my glove off, looked at, got my blue shop towel off the roll, got some electrical tape, and made a big band-aid. granted i favored that hand the rest of the day, but i kept on trudging along. its nothing to bust my fingers, break my finger bones or dang near slice a finger off at least 3x a yr.

[tree-farmer]

Starting when I was old enough to follow dad around (carperter) I have beat, banged, scraped, cut, broken, and amputated various bits and parts of my poor old body. 30 years in machine shop accounted for a lot of unplanned body alterations. Chain sawing my knee joint was the most recent major boo boo. Some of my scars have scars. (Being a bit clumsy and impulsive has not helped). During one spell they knew me by name when I would go to local ER for a few stiches. 
Most things still work on the good days, ( knee still holds a grudge). Like the battery bunny, I just keep going. 
I'm a organ donor, but not sure anyone will want them when I get done with them. ;D

[Bricklayer51]

I am with you tree farmer laying blocks pouring concrete pounding nails for 40 years take their toll as far as organ donor I am pretty sure they do not want my liver

[lxskllr]

It's a rare day I don't bleed from something, and some days I look like a battle extra from Vikings. Have to walk through the woods loaded with gear, and it's either pussyfoot through the briars and take forever, or suck it up and blast on through. Builds character, or something...  :^D  My knees and shins look like they were chewed by a beaver from hitting myself with a hammer so many times. Amazing I've never broken anything.

[Onthesauk]

I left 40 acres and moved back into the city so doesn't happen as often any more but still seems to happen and never know how these things happened.

Woke up a couple of months ago with a black toe nail.  No pain, no idea how it happened but now losing the nail.  Big scab on my chins, where did that come from?

Doctor a few years ago told me many of these things are caused by birthdays.

[Mike W]

Getting old isn't for wimps...  I have broken multiple ( I do mean many many of them) bones throughout my days, countless stitches, cracked ribs, the whole nine yards plus some extra ones in there.  Just the other week seemed I tried to remove my left thumb with a butcher knife, luckily the bone got in the way and its still there, albeit some heavy nerve damage to one side of the digit still exists.  worst part was stapling the cut closed with one of many of our med kits (we don't go to the doctor for anything short of life threatening issues around here)  it was like putting your hand in a desk stapler and forcing yourself to slam down on it.  Last thing that will happen to me is someone saying "he died at age 90 with absolutely nothing wrong with him" in fact when I go, it will be well deserved and completely used up ;D 

[low_48]

Don't go in the ocean in Florida with those cuts, you might come home and die! I recently had a diverticulitis flareup that became septic. The CT scan showed up some other issues including stage 2 chronic kidney disease. My family doctor looked at the report and my blood work. He said, "For a guy of your age, your kidneys will be working after you die." So now I like to preface, "For a guy my age..........."

[Old Greenhorn]

HA yeah, happens to me all the time too. As we age, the skin gets thinner and less flexible so it tears easier. I have treated many of these in the elderly who usually have little idea how it happened. My Mom had it bad and with her blood thinners it could be serious at times. For me though I rarely pay attention to them, just wash it off with some water the first chance I get to keep it fairly clean. Friday I was milling up 2x6's and 8' in a controlled panic and I really pushed myself to make time. I was totally soaked with sweat when I loaded it up to move and that's when I realized my lower left arm was covered in blood thinned out with sweat. I have no idea how it happened, don't really care. After cleaning found it was just a couple of small holes probably from a bark rub or something. You just have to watch these for signs of redness that spreads or inflammation that could indicate infection, then don't take any chances. I lost a good friend to sepsis from a simple finger cut. You have to watch the signs and not delay in proper treatment.
 I can tell you I have more dark spots, scabs, and scars on my legs and forearms than a lot of cage fighters and very few of them have a good story attached that I can recall anyway.

[btulloh]

As far as I know, Neosporin will stop infection from any source known or unknown when applied promptly to a cut.

If that's not true, I'd rather not find out.

[Ohio Dave]

It's a rare day I don't bleed from something, and some days I look like a battle extra from Vikings. Have to walk through the woods loaded with gear, and it's either pussyfoot through the briars and take forever, or suck it up and blast on through. Builds character, or something...  :^D  My knees and shins look like they were chewed by a beaver from hitting myself with a hammer so many times. Amazing I've never broken anything.

"Builds character" translates as "it sucks deal with it"