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What do you do for gangreen on the thumb?

Depends on the gangrene. There is more than one form of gangrene.
Both are bad shyt, Hopefully you have good circulation to the area.
I recommend you carry your butt to the doctor without hesitation.
Without intervention and often IV antibiotic you can loose more than a thumb.
If it is indeed gangrenous. You cannot afford to F around.

Zip,

That's not what having a "green thumb" is all about brother!




But seriously...

Follow Sans advice...Cause you can't afford to lose any digits, as a musician!

Gang green , we can allways use another JETS fan. Even from Boise.

Otherwise listen to SANS.

Well its not my thumb its the old ladys.
She got chomped by a corgie on aciident trying to save it from a young pit.
It is gangreen, shes had iv antibiotics a couple of times.
now she has this 'hand specialist' that a total dick.
She pryed off the black scab like top today and its black underneat too. and theres a hole all the way down to a tendon or something.

Oh, and the baby just put a cat turd in his mouth before I could catch him, so now what?

gtZip wrote:
Oh, and the baby just put a cat turd in his mouth before I could catch him, so now what?

Put Sans phone number on SPEED DIAL!


Good luck brother. You're just having one of those days.

It's situations like that where I really feel kind of helpless.
I mean, yeah if it was my wound I would probably keep it clean with a Dakin's solution or something similar.
But too be honest once you have some necrosis it's a hard heal.
Tell ya what though. I will ask my wife. She is wound care certified.
Perhaps she will have some idea.
Honestly though. This is probably beyond both our expertise if active infection remains present.

P.S. The wife recommends Betadine solution. Clean well and paint with daily.

But again, honestly. This needs to be followed closely by an MD.
An infectious disease specialist would be whom I would seek out.
The infection can get into the bone.

I will keep her in my prayers.
Jeanette said she would too.

You need to consult with my naturopath. Her phone number is 913-825-6111. She's got some amazing natural healing herbs that might work wonders for you. I had a recluse spider bite on my bicep a few years ago that got so bad I was told by a medical doctor to have removed by surgery. Instead I went to the naturopath and she prescribed two of her herbals that I took four times a day. Within a week the bite was almost completely healed. The doctors were dumbfounded, they said it wasn't posible to heal without surgery and prescription drugs. The natural way is worth a try, believe me. She also cured my irritable bowel that had baffled the mainstream doctors for years.

Ok well after keeping it clean, and more I.V. antibiotics and stuff, a tendon broke last night and the is bone showing now.

Bob, I called your naturopath place today but they are closed.
I left a message.
Do they have a website?

gtZip wrote:
a tendon broke last night and the is bone showing now.

Get your wife to the hospital before she loses a finger dude!!!

She wont lose a thumb. I already told her that I cant be with a woman with only one thumb.

(shes been in and out the hospital several times now, including last night)

gtZip wrote:She wont lose a thumb. I already told her that I cant be with a woman with only one thumb.

(shes been in and out the hospital several times now, including last night)

And???

What do they say bro?!!!

Yes, how is she doing ??

Stabilized.
Surgery is imminent though.

I think we are going to sue the sh*t out of the 'hand specialist', because he's just now come to admit that it is going to need surgery, that the tendon did break, and that there is bone showing.

He actually had the gall to tell her one time that she couldnt run to the E.R. (she had to go through him first)

Well, all of the I.V. antibiotics tha shes gotten are from running to the E.R.
if it was up to him, shed probably be dead by now.

gtZip wrote:Stabilized.
Surgery is imminent though.

I think we are going to sue the sh*t out of the 'hand specialist', because he's just now come to admit that it is going to need surgery, that the tendon did break, and that there is bone showing.

He actually had the gall to tell her one time that she couldnt run to the E.R. (she had to go through him first)

Well, all of the I.V. antibiotics tha shes gotten are from running to the E.R.
if it was up to him, shed probably be dead by now.

Really sorry to hear all this.

I hope he gets what's coming to him, and that your wife comes out ok!