I saw it coming, knew better, didn't think then wam! My thumb went through the table saw blade. It was like an electric shock and the pain was going to take a minute to set in. I shut off the saw and got the nerve to look. there was meat hanging loose, I could see the bone and the bleeding was copious. I was wishing this hadn't happened and wanting to pass out. alone in my shop, a mile from the nearest person and 15 miles from an emergency room. I wiggled the end of my thumb and was grateful the bone was not cut through. A clean rag wrapped tight was the best badge/tourniquet I could do. I tried to cell phone for help but got no answers and busy signals. Decided to drive to the hospital, I was bleeding heavy but figured that was good, clean it out. Shock and pain were my problem now. Took twenty minutes to get to the Emergency room at Martha Jefferson. Got a call through to a friend and asked him to call the hospital and tell them I was coming.
In America not having health insurance is messed up. I was told to wait for a doctor in the waiting area. They took away my tourniquet and gave me a sterile 4x4 gauze to "place on my cut". I sat there and slipped into deep shock, passed out and was pouring blood on their floor. My friend had followed me to the hospital and was holding me and looking for help when I came around. They brought me to a room. Put on a new tourniquet to stop the bleeding and I waited an hour for a "Specialist". Some dumb ass came in and tried to collect a few hundred dollar fee from me as a deposit. Then a doctor rolled in a big cart and said "so your the one who needs a skin graft". I asked if he could just sew it up and he said there was nothing left to sew. He looked at my chart, saw that I had no insurance and pushed the cart back out of the room with his foot. "Stick your hand under the sink". He ran water on me, gooped me up with neosporin, scripted me some codeine. and walked me to the back door to the street. Come back in three days and let's have a look at it then. No antibiotics? No, he said.
Three days later I went to the local doctor, he wasn't in but his new young partner unwrapped me and looked at it. "Hold on". he says. A minute later a nurse walks in and say the doctor wants me to clean it myself in the sink. I do so and when the nurse tries to re-wrap me I stop her and do it myself. when the doctor comes back I ask if I need a skin graft. "That would have worked a few days ago, but now it's too late". I asked what am I supposed to do and he said hope that scar tissue can start growing. And if it does I'm looking at months to heal, poorly. No antibiotics. This is how doctors work....if I get infected they will amputate. It's easier money for them than actually healing you. I had to help myself or lose the thumb. I keep a paper in my wallet now telling the doctors to let me die, with my lawyers cell phone number on it.
At home I read my chinese medicine book and thought about how the best care I got was in my shop and how shitty doctors could be. I called my veterinarian, he's a born healer, I have helped him operate on cancers and do amputations on my pets. they all heal and live well from him. Healing is healing, isn't it? Keep antibiotic cream on for a week and wear a loose cotton glove over it, that will let the flesh grow and help scar tissue from closing in on the bone too fast. Then use a comfrey liniment to speed up skin growth and seal the open wound, again cover loosely. My herbal book agreed with the comfrey so I spent the week growing flesh and making the "Grows skin" liniment.
The bone had recovered and the flesh was attaching. I cleaned it twice a day in water and re-applied antibiotic cream. My thumb had a new shape, was 3/4 the size it used to be but it was a thumb. I changed over to the compound, kept up the dressing schedule and a miracle "My friends called it" happened. I had new skin cover in one week. It was not great skin and took some care to return to normal. I am now 100% healed, have regained full sensitivity and you have to look closely to see that anything ever happened. The power of healing can begin with a word of confidence from someone who heals, instead of a doctor that applies treatments that insurance companies suggest. If I knew then what I now Know I would have chucked the antibiotic cream and just left the comfrey out of my compound for the first week. Don't be squeamish, it's too late, Take small, sharp, clean scissors and cut of dead flesh while your dressing the initial wound and growing flesh. Once the skin process starts the wound is self debrising. I cut the fingers off the cotton gloves to make ten bandages per set, and extra covers from rubber glove tip to protect. I cut the old rubber tips into bands to hold the cotton on. Air is important, so is moisture. Never dry, never wet.
to make compound use in equal measure
marshmallow root
mullien
sculcap
Black walnut hulls
white oak bark
gravel root
libelia
St. johns wort flower
Measure or weigh, then add that amount of
comfrey root
to be clear; the compound is 1/2 comfrey
Use all ingredients finely ground, place in double boiler and cover with virgin olive oil, and and an equal proportion of beeswax. heat till wax melts, stir and hold hot for ten minutes. Pour this through gause to remove any large particles place in jar and let cool. If it's runny at 75 deg reheat and add more beeswax. To avoid antibiotic cream leave the comfrey out for the first week. Reheat the salve, add oil and wax, restrain and go to stage two.
Towards the end the fast skin was drying out to fast. the cotton glove tips were irritating. I cut fresh aloe and smeared the gel on a fresh mullien leaf. Life supports life. then I covered it with a cotton tip. sometimes I just cut a piece of aloe and shove my thumb in it. Usually in the evening so I don't have dry thumb in the morning. Truly, Allah is merciful and compassionate, I am grateful for the creators blessings and bounties.
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Saturday, November 3, 2007
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4 comments:
What does herbalism and being an apothocry have to doing with alchemy?
I am confused I thought you where intreasted in alchemy, but herbalism is alternative medicine and is not related in association to the great work and the search for al-alkir (the elixier).
Nothing against herbalism you understand I myself am a herbalist.
You only lost the tip of your thumb to a band saw, it could have been a lot worse, alchemists as a rule of thumb (pardon the pun) usually blow themselves up!
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