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[Black.Ghost]

I'll never forget a story my mum told me once about my dad. He used to work for a shed building company. Every Friday lunch time, he used to get his pay packet in cash, so my mum would go and pick him up from work and take him into town to pay the money in. It was a regular thing, and I remember in school holidays going with mum to do this. Well one Friday, she got a phone call from his work in the morning asking if she could come and pick him up as he had been shot with a nail. So off my mum went, thinking it was really seriously. It turns out someone had fired a nail gun, I believe accidentally, and it had gone right into his arse! These were big nails and apparently it was a good 3 inches or so into his arse cheek! She took him to the hospital, with him having had to lay down on the back seat of the car  

[mm man]

The strange thing was it don't hurt at first because I didn't know that I had done it as I was looking the other way , until I took my boot off I didn't feel anything really but as soon as I saw the holes that's when it started .
The other strange thing was when I was resting it would be fine untill I looked at the holes then they would begin to bleed

Edited by mm man, 09 October 2013 - 10:16 PM.

[mm man]

I'll never forget a story my mum told me once about my dad. He used to work for a shed building company. Every Friday lunch time, he used to get his pay packet in cash, so my mum would go and pick him up from work and take him into town to pay the money in. It was a regular thing, and I remember in school holidays going with mum to do this. Well one Friday, she got a phone call from his work in the morning asking if she could come and pick him up as he had been shot with a nail. So off my mum went, thinking it was really seriously. It turns out someone had fired a nail gun, I believe accidentally, and it had gone right into his arse! These were big nails and apparently it was a good 3 inches or so into his arse cheek! She took him to the hospital, with him having had to lay down on the back seat of the car

Did your mum pick up his wages and pay them in on the way to or from hospital ? I bet there was the odd joke about him being a pain in the arse .

[jmmini]

For any of you that are squeamish, I once knelt on a thumb-tack and although it may not sound painful, I didn't enjoy the sensation of a pair of plyers turning and pulling a thumb-tack out of my knee cap! I can still feel it when I think about it!

[ANON]

6" nail, fortunately it hit bone and didn't go through. loads of bog roll in the bottom of my trainer but it got sucked through and out the hole in the sole, made a mess walking into the hospital.

 

can't make it out clearly in the pic but the dark patch around the base of my toes and the ball of my foot was a huuuuuge blood clot!!

 

Edited by ANON, 16 October 2013 - 10:17 PM.

[olds_kool_lews]

I once jumped on a plank of wood with a nail in it when I was a kid.
 
The nail came out the top of my foot and I just put the other foot on the plank next to my impaled trainer and lifted my foot off the nail....
 
Think it was just a shock, so i did it without thinking. Couldn't do it nowadays, I'd probably faint.
 
Weird thing was it didn't bleed at all and I remember limping to school for one day, but never got it checked out and wasn't really sore....
 
Although that'd be over 30 years ago now!!!

I did the same thing at primary school, but I didn't jump on it, was running around the play ground and a fence plank had come off, I didn't see it till I was dragging the plank around behind me, didn't realise what had happened until I tried to shake it off, and noticed the nail poking out the top of my trainer...

[ToM 2012]

talk about squelching along with all that blood in your shoe! man i bet that made you yelp! looks painful that does.  

[AVV IT]

I'm a bit suprised that nobody has mentioned tetanus, as that tends to be the first thing that people worry about with these types of injuries. Wether you'll actually need a tetanus jab following this will depend on your age and innoculations. If you are under 40 and therefore have had all your childhood tetanus injections, including the booster in your mid teens, then you should be fine. If not, or you're unsure, then you really ought to get some advice about this, either through your GP, or nearest Minor Injuries Unit.

As previously mentioned, the other issue is infection. Ideally you should have had the wound cleaned properly at a GP walk in centre, or minor injuries unit at the time. Aside from any contamination on the nail that you stepped on, foot injuries are notorious for infection, mainly because the warm, moist, bacteria ridden environment of our shoes is a perfect breeding ground for them. So the fact that your injury has been squelching around untreated all day, in the bacteria incubator that is your shoe, isn't really ideal.

If you havent already done so, it would be advisable to bathe the area in an antiseptic, or mild saline soloution, to try and prevent any further infection and to watch out for the signs of infection that have been described earlier. Try to keep the injury clean by repeating this daily and wearing clean socks that are changed regularly, ideally wearing a brand new/ previously unworn pair of shoes would also help, if you have, or can get hold of a pair.

[1984mini25]

I very nearly did exactly the same thing braking up a rather well made pallet for cheap useful timber, tripped and nearly stood back on a 3" rusty nail. lucky I did manage to stop myself from standing on it after I felt/realised it going through my shoe.

[olds_kool_lews]

I've also impaled my hand on a nail before, there was an empty house next to a friends house in a cul-de-sac, me n my mates were about 9-10years old, the empty house was being renovated, and had the bathroom suit on the front garden, we thought it would be great fun (when computers didn't rule the world) to sit in the bath and rock it like a boat, when the bath tipped over, wooden battens were in the grass, nails pointing upwards, instinctively i put my arms out to save myself, hand straight onto a nail, right through, man that was painfull lol