Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted August 20, 2017 Site Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2017 Stabbed a bit of wood down the side of my finger a few days ago. Can't see anything though the finger is swelling. If there is something in, does the body naturally break them down in time or am I going to develop digit aids? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent_white Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Unless it gets infected - in which case you'll need it chopping off :-) If it's hot, red, swollen and painful and you can't get it out yourself then it's probably worth a trip to A&E. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter only1swanny Posted August 20, 2017 Site Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2017 Had one once and my thumb. Got really infected and tender.. squeezed it really hard to try and get some puss out (I know.. not best idea) and a cm long splinter shot out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatanGreavsie Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Had one once and my thumb. Got really infected and tender.. squeezed it really hard to try and get some puss out (I know.. not best idea) and a cm long splinter shot out. I've still got an inch long bit of wood in my hand from a bow and arrow that splintered as I fired it as a kid 45 years ago. Fuckers at the infirmary couldn't be arsed to go through the complications of getting it out, so they just patched it up at either end of the wound and the bastard has been there under the base of my thumb ever since. One day I'll get it cut out. I blame the fact that I'm a fat bald cunt on its presence. If only they'd taken it out, I could have been the new Bond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted August 20, 2017 Author Site Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2017 Unless it gets infected - in which case you'll need it chopping off :-) If it's hot, red, swollen and painful and you can't get it out yourself then it's probably worth a trip to A&E. Not even sure there's owt in to be honest, perhaps some bugs left in there by the initial thrust? How do you get one out if you can't see it? Its certainly hot red and swollen.... Phnaaa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter MickyD Posted August 20, 2017 Site Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2017 Splinters? Aren't they refered to as spiles in Bolton? Or is a splinter just a spile except bigger or smaller? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter MickyD Posted August 20, 2017 Site Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2017 Just looked up SPILE. spile [spʌɪl] spiles (plural noun) a large, heavy timber driven into the ground to support a superstructure. So maybe just a Bolton way of understating or understating the event. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamiwhite Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Unless it gets infected - in which case you'll need it chopping off :-) If it's hot, red, swollen and painful and you can't get it out yourself then it's probably worth a trip to A&E. Come off it mate, a bit of drawing cream will do the do and save the A&E staff 4 hours of laughter at TMGJ's expense haha... Anyway.. Nobby Spiles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted August 20, 2017 Author Site Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2017 Come off it mate, a bit of drawing cream will do the do and save the A&E staff 4 hours of laughter at TMGJ's expense haha... Anyway.. Nobby Spiles. Funnily enough lad's at a & e now. Had an x-ray on his elbow. Tried to jump across a stream on his bike and fell off. We've all done somert equally stupid I suppose. Daley Sblinder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatanGreavsie Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Splinters? Aren't they refered to as spiles in Bolton? Or is a splinter just a spile except bigger or smaller? Tap and Spile was a nice boozer round here until they flogged it and it's now a Chinese restaurant. I say "nice", but it was run by a Burnley fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traf Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Splinter Milan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamiwhite Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Frank McSplintercock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent_white Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Come off it mate, a bit of drawing cream will do the do and save the A&E staff 4 hours of laughter at TMGJ's expense haha... Anyway.. Nobby Spiles. You'd be surprised. A mate of mine has a daughter who's finger was on the verge of amputation after a splinter got infected. Took a load of IV antibiotics and surgery under GA to save it. Mind you - I'm sure you've had your fair share in your line of work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamiwhite Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 You'd be surprised. A mate of mine has a daughter who's finger was on the verge of amputation after a splinter got infected. Took a load of IV antibiotics and surgery under GA to save it. Mind you - I'm sure you've had your fair share in your line of work? Aye, I know they can be pretty serious pal, I was just jesting re TMGJ. Get them regularly at work, spend more time getting them out than being on the roof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent_white Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 spend more time getting them out than being on the roof. There you go TMGJ - here's your man. Save the NHS a few quid and get around Miami's! :-) At least you won't have to wait for 4 hours and you can talk about the football to take your mind off it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamiwhite Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 There you go TMGJ - here's your man. Save the NHS a few quid and get around Miami's! :-) At least you won't have to wait for 4 hours and you can talk about the football to take your mind off it! Haha,nice one. TMGJ would faint when I pull my Stihl saw out..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted August 20, 2017 Author Site Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2017 Haha,nice one. TMGJ would faint when I pull my Stihl saw out..... Give over, them saws are toys. Get the old stihl chain saw on my splinter, that'll sort it! Anyway, seems a little piffling, doctor suspects lad has a fracture of his elbow. One for kent- it didn't show up on x-ray- but the quack said "sub chondral" fractures are known for sometimes not doing. Been on t'internet but seems to say sub chondral is to do with femurs so I'm non the wiser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamiwhite Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Give over, them saws are toys. Get the old stihl chain saw on my splinter, that'll sort it! Anyway, seems a little piffling, doctor suspects lad has a fracture of his elbow. One for kent- it didn't show up on x-ray- but the quack said "sub chondral" fractures are known for sometimes not doing. Been on t'internet but seems to say sub chondral is to do with femurs so I'm non the wiser. Hope your son's ok pal. Little un takes a fractured elbow like a trooper, whilst his dad cries over a splinter haha........I'll bring the Stihl saw round later matey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted August 20, 2017 Author Site Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2017 Hope your son's ok pal. Little un takes a fractured elbow like a trooper, whilst his dad cries over a splinter haha........I'll bring the Stihl saw round later matey. No probs. Can you cut a few flags while you're at it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter White on Tyne Posted August 20, 2017 Site Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2017 Mate of mine got a spelk in his thumb which swelled up and went red. Went to chemist who told him he could flog him some antiseptic but just as good to put some germolene on it and it'd be fine. Swelling went down and easy to pull out. Jon Arne Tweezer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent_white Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Been on t'internet but seems to say sub chondral is to do with femurs so I'm non the wiser. Subchondral just means the fracture is below a bit of cartilage - although I don't understand why it wouldn't show up on an x-ray because you can see straight through cartilage. Mind you I'm not a radiologist or in orthopaedics! :-) This gives a pretty good explanation of it though..... http://www.joint-pain-expert.net/supracondylar-fracture.html Hope your lad is OK! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamiwhite Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 No probs. Can you cut a few flags while you're at it? Course I can pal. Shall I cut up the ISIS or Confederate flag ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted August 20, 2017 Author Site Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2017 Subchondral just means the fracture is below a bit of cartilage - although I don't understand why it wouldn't show up on an x-ray because you can see straight through cartilage. Mind you I'm not a radiologist or in orthopaedics! :-) This gives a pretty good explanation of it though..... http://www.joint-pain-expert.net/supracondylar-fracture.html Hope your lad is OK! :-) As I wondered, wife's just arrived, and I mentioned supracondylar fractures- seen them on the internet, common in kids when falling down and putting hands down, and she reckoned the doctor may well have said that.Its swollen more while he's been there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e2e4 Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 Splinters? Aren't they refered to as spiles in Bolton? Or is a splinter just a spile except bigger or smaller? article related to this.. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3616265/Do-know-spelk-spool-spile-Words-disappear-English-language-dialects-southern.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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