I'm sure that Scrobleners have all been faced with this quandary, but has anyone NOT had an issue with using these, or any other makers' products, it being almost impossible to take from the packet, undo the welded stainless-steel packaging, strip the battle-ship-grade adhesive protective molybdenum sheet away from the plaster using an acetylene torch, several wrenches, and a car-jack, when all this time, the blood is flowing freely, mainly towards the drain in the sink, or down one's trousers, and in danger of staining the kitchen floor beyond redemption?
No?
Well I salute you and offer you my house, all its contents and a tincture or three chucked in for good measure!
Over the last few months, Scrobs' condition demands a certain amount of care regarding bleeding, as doctors advise one not to attract issues where a cut, or a graze may become infected, and we don't want that do we!
But can anyone advise me how to locate these items and apply them safely, as there has been quite a lot of haemoglobin flying around as of yesterday, when yet another lump was excised from this slender but manly frame...
Apart from that - all is just fabulous!
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A good few years ago I found out that ordinary cheap 20 mm wide masking tape was better for sliced fingers. This was a matter of necessity, invention's mum, as I had no access to anything else.
The wound was cleaned with cold British tap water, dried, and the masking tape wound (interesting- one word having two meanings in the same sentence) tight enough to stop the bleeding without cutting the flow to the extremity.
Done it ever since.
I presume that the manufacturing process ensures that no human or any other creature's hand has touched it. Also health n safty lawyers will ensure that it is very safe. My tip of the day.
Now that sounds like a real plan, Doon!
Masking tape is dead cheap, comes in a huge roll, and as you say, is the perfect size for dealing with such issues at the touch of a pair of scissors!
I have some, somewhere here, probably in the butler's pantry, and will behold it very soon!
Thank you for this inventive and trusty observation!
In my experience "waterproof" usually translates as "adhesionproof". My resident daughter recommends colloidal plasters: they stick like sh*t to a blanket, come on easy application backings and heal superbly.
They sound the real thing, TheJ - please thank Resident Daughter for this valuable info! The swab on my forehead is the size of a hen's egg, and looks ridiculous! In fact, I have an appointment with the nurse at my GP's surgery tomorrow, and hopefully, she'll hoik off the offending lump for yuccccch, and apply something which doesn't take up so much room!
At the moment, there's some Sellotape holding everything in, which might raise a few eyebrows in Tesco when I pop in just before lunch...
(Luckily, I still have the eyebrow, I thought they might chop it off! It's only a BCC, but they've done a great job in cutting the little sod out)!!
Clean insulation tape works well too.
Cheers!
Tony F
Superglue judiciously applied.
Tony, that also sounds like a plan! The lovely nurse did the business as hoped, and stuck on a pale pink plaster with transparent sticky edges, and it was a lot better to see and feel!
But it fell off within minutes, so a couple of pieces of Micropore has held it all in place for a couple of days now... She's given me a spare, but that really is for emergencies!
I've heard about that being used for knee replacement scars, TbT, and would be keen to try that! Trouble is, there are no edges, as the hole is the size of a pound coin, (remember them), and may need a graft...
I'm negotiating about having a face lift at the same time, (not), as a few droops could be chopped off and used when they do it on Tuesday next! I bet they don't though!
Mind you, if the ophthalmologist who originally diagnosed the issue is doing it, I shall just swoon and pass out, as she is just utterly gorgeous...
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