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Topic: Anyone ever cauterize a wound?
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68F100
Gearhead Posts: 2377
From: Fort Madison, Iowa USA - United We Stand
Registered: Oct 99
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posted 03-07-2005 03:53 PM
   
 I went to the hospital about a week and a half ago for a funky growth on my foot. Doc said it was "proud flesh" - tissue that grows out from a wound when the skin doesn't heal around it fast enough. Anyhow, he sliced it off and cauterized it with silver nitrate, but obviously didn't do a good enough job, because it's growing back. I have a blowtorch and could probably find some steel rod... 
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SteveLaRiviere
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From: Saco, Maine
Registered: May 99
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posted 03-07-2005 04:37 PM
Yes, several times. A couple times on purpose, even!------------------
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Big D
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From: WELLS, NEVADA USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 03-07-2005 06:14 PM
I'd get back in and have SOMEONE ELSE take care of it.. Something like this can effect you forever.. That doesn't sound good.. Wondered what happened to you.. And,, Take It Easy.. ------------------
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mustangs68
Moderator Posts: 22320
From: Buckroe Beach Va MCA#39406 M&M #12 Member Mustang Club of Tidewater
Registered: May 99
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posted 03-07-2005 08:06 PM
It seems I was growing another left side of my head..went to the Doc and she asked if I wanted it off now or go to a surgeon.I said now Numbed it,Got out that trusty rusty pocket knife and cut it off...
My head woke up and hour and a half later WOW!
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Fastback68
Gearhead Posts: 3093
From: Sucat, Paranaque, Philippines
Registered: Jul 99
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posted 03-07-2005 08:30 PM
Never having heard of "proud flesh" before, I just had to find out! According to this URL ...
http://www.equisearch.com/care/treatment/eqhumble530/
... cauterizing is NOT the recommended course of action, at least not if you're a horse. It also says proud flesh often refuses to give up easily, so you just have to keep going at it.
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68F100
Gearhead Posts: 2377
From: Fort Madison, Iowa USA - United We Stand
Registered: Oct 99
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posted 03-07-2005 08:49 PM
Well, that's pretty much how the doc explained it to me too. Never mentioned anything about horses, though.I had never heard of it either. It's growing in between my toes- looks like a 6th toe growing in. I guess I'm just a mutant freak now.
That article is right about it bleeding. Bleeds like a faucet was turned on if I poke at it.
I could write one of the funniest books you ever read about bad luck, but it would probably never get published. 
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missing link
Journeyman Posts: 58
From: kansas city mo
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 03-08-2005 12:02 AM
Have had silver nitrate used before. The way the dr said it worked was by melting (burning) the skin. Hurt like a SOB when it got to the good skin. Was begining to think he was demented for using it the way it started to burn. Sounds like you need to get a 2nd on this one.
Dave
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Dave Witthoeft
Gearhead Posts: 2246
From: IL.
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 03-08-2005 05:32 AM
Sounds painfull.  Please take it easy....
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SteveLaRiviere
Administrator Posts: 43152
From: Saco, Maine
Registered: May 99
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posted 03-08-2005 08:24 AM
I had a wart on my index finger once, I tried getting rid of it 3-4 times using Compound W. It would go away for a while, then come back. One day I was doing some brazing and I saw that wart and said to myself "WTF." I sizzled that baby off and twenty years later all I have is a tiny dimple there. ------------------
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68F100
Gearhead Posts: 2377
From: Fort Madison, Iowa USA - United We Stand
Registered: Oct 99
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posted 03-08-2005 11:57 AM
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Originally posted by Dave Witthoeft:
Sounds painfull. Please take it easy....
Actually, it's not. Just annoying. When the doc sliced it off, I couldn't even tell until I felt the blood dribbling down my foot. I felt the silver nitrate, but it didn't hurt. (didn't help either, obviously)
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johnny 4-speed
Gearhead Posts: 149
From: Larkspur, Ca. USA
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted 03-08-2005 01:34 PM
You remember tat scene from Rambo III? Rambo had an arrow hole in his rib cage, What did he do? Pulled the arrow out, poured fuel in the wound and lit! Presto cauterized wound!
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