Yeah...took a closer look at the prices...
Heck, I can do a similar closure with a window screen swatch and super glue...clean, glue a flap on one side, wait a minute, close wound and glue rest of swatch...reinforced fiber all the way and water proof and have $ left over for 150 proof pain killer & irrigation fluid. Not to mention a tube or 2 of nepsporin.
Bar talk: “No darlin, that’s no winder screen. That there is carbon fiber shrapnel I got from the space alien UFO I blowed up...all hush hush.”
Wow! You two have amazing tips for in the field survival. I am truly awed. Perhaps, in our opening links, we should have a “Be Ready” link where we collect amazing, practical, MacGyver techniques. We’ve addressed psychological and spiritual readiness, but what about medical readiness?
Now that I’ve seen the video of CloseX and read these tips, I think I can make something similar out of screen and save $$, after a baggie of iodine water is applied.
What say you, Ransom? I don’t want to forget these ideas. This type of lore should be preserved and shared. WWG1WGA!
Window screen! I like that. Ima add some pieces to my first aid kits.
A couple weeks ago, I had an incident with a gas-powered pressure washer. I'm told the spray was around 1300 psi. It cut out a trench of skin about an inch long and tore open the tip of the first joint of third finger. Just shy of the bone. I couldn't find my suture thread (stupid me), because it could have used two or three stitches, so I irrigated well and superglued the tip back together. Neosporin on the 'trench' of missing fleisch.
All closed up now. No infection, small scar. Neosporin and band aids (fiber kind) are great. Hurt like a son of a gun though.
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