Be careful everyone

[noviceveggrower]

Hi, Hope I've put this in the right forum.
Just got back from allotment early after cutting my hand open on a bamboo cane. Don't know wether all the dry wet weather, then dry and then wet has made them brittle but my I suggest people check them before they use them.
I was on my new plot, chuffin typical, planting my spuds when I went to put a cane in, did have my plastic bottle with me, so I could tell the 1st earlies and my 2nd earlies apart. As I pushed the cane in it part splintered and part snapped. So I now have a very impressive cut in the palm of my hand.
So after I managed to stop it bleeding I finished my row of spuds off and have come home.
Have washed hand in hot water, then antibacterial soap, then put detoll on it and yes I did shake my hand a lot cause it stung like a bu##er.
Anyway just want wanted everyone to know to be careful and check.

[Knight of Albion]

Thank you for posting that. Very thoughtful of you.

Yes, they might seem relatively innocuous, but they can give you a very nasty injury.
[Both the Japanese (during WW2) and the Viet Cong (during the Vietnam War) used sharpened bamboo as 'man traps'.]

[noviceveggrower]

My main concern is someone really hurting themselves. If they are on blood thinning medication and they cut themselves it can really, really serious.
My dad is on various tablets cause he has had a heart attack, then they did a triple by pass, then in August last year he had a stroke. He takes that many pills he rattles. But seriously if he'd of cut his hand like I did he would of been in trouble.
So just want everyone to keep safe.

[darcyvuqua]

Thank you for posting that. Very thoughtful of you.

Yes, they might seem relatively innocuous, but they can give you a very nasty injury.
[Both the Japanese (during WW2) and the Viet Cong (during the Vietnam War) used sharpened bamboo as 'man traps'.]

I believe Rambo did too in first blood

Hope you ain't cut it to bad

[WendyC]

I am ultra cautious with bamboo canes. I buy new if in any doubt as I've had nasty splinters from them. I have heard of a friend's son using one in the garden as a high jump bar, as you can imagine kids would, he missed the jump and the cane broke piercing the inside of his thigh.

[Nicos]

You OK now NVG???...sounds a really unpleasant injury.
Did you cut your dominant hand too?

Hope your tetanus is up to date?

[noviceveggrower]

Hi. I am ok now thanks. It is healing up ok now. Plenty of Dettol and Savlon has sorted it out. Managed to close it up myself. Didn't need stitches or butterfly things on.
Yep it is my right hand the one I use the most.
My jabs are all up to date thankfully.

[mothhawk]

Hi. I am ok now thanks. It is healing up ok now. Plenty of Dettol and Savlon has sorted it out. Managed to close it up myself. Didn't need stitches or butterfly things on.
Yep it is my right hand the one I use the most.
My jabs are all up to date thankfully.

Glad to hear it. I never knew my paternal grandfather. He died before I was born, of tetanus, which he got from a splinter of cane that went into his arm while gardening. You can never be too careful.