Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/07/14/diy-wound-closing-with-this-1.html
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Well, this isn’t at all dystopian…
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A downside of stapling wounds together rather than suturing them is that staples leave bigger scars.
Some might find that a bonus.
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Gonna need a unicorn
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Yea, I guess this makes me a delicate dolly, but things would have to be extraordinarily fucking bad for me to go this route. I’d ask a veterinarian, or my weird neighbor who was a corpsman in Vietnam, before I’d get anywhere close to this.
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Downside is cool scars? I hear chicks dig scars!
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There is a Simpsons clip for everything.
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To be seen in the latest crime dramas!
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Especially when my first reaction wasn’t “WTF?!?” but “Well, if it works, that could be useful in a worst case scenario.”
(I tend to think about worst case scenarios a LOT these days…)
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These are incredibly handy to have lying around…if you also have someone around who knows how to use it. We have one in our first aid supplies bin for emergencies. Haven’t needed to whip it out yet, but it’s nice knowing we won’t have to go to the ER if one of us slices ourselves open biking, skiing, or being otherwise outdoorsy.
We have a family friend who famously stapled his wife’s head wound, which she incurred during a water skiing accident. Pulled it right out of the glove box, chunk chunk, good as new (ish)!
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Damn, beat me to it!
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I like to think of that guy in Utah who had to cut off his own arm when it got trapped under a boulder. . .
Well, I don’t like to think of him, but I do when I have to consider how brutal stapling your own wounds might be. So yeah, a shot of whisky, a branch to bite down on, and stapling a wound instead of bleeding to death. If/when it comes to that I’m game.
And the way things are going in this world, it looks more like ‘when’ than ‘if.’
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I mean, in a pinch, it sounds like a great thing to use.
Did she goto a dr afterwards, I hope?
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He was so excited to have a chance to use it - I think it had been one of those “why do you have that/we don’t need that!” arguments. The friend is surgeon, so once he got her home he was able to get it cleaned up better and toss a few sutures in instead of the staples.
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That seems to be the go-to in crime thrillers/mobster movies.
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Does it come in red?
Otherwise I’ll stick to Crazy Glue.
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