Thread: Finaly Cut my face

Well cuts happen I had a few when I first started. Even now I might be in a bit of a hurry and get a small one.

As far as healing let that thing scar chicks dig scars right

Now on to the hand question. It's good to use both hands to train your weak hand. There is probably spots where it is easier for you to use you right hand. Use your right for those spots until you get more comfortable with it then venture into harder spots. It's one of those things that you have to get comfortable with, you could shave other things all day long but it will not be the same as putting a razor to your own face. Just keep at it and before long you won't even think about your weak hand. You will just pick up the razor and shave away. Good Luck and enjoy!!!

Hey,

+1 to all that's been said so far. The wife (retired nurse) tells me that ointment/cream with vitamin E helps to nourish and help with scarring.

Second issue: only repeated use of your weak hand will help. Hang in there.

Bill

Thanks for the help guy's I guess I will just have to gut it out and try and try to get the right hand comfy.

I think it would be a good idea to learn using the dominant hand (DH) only , at first . After a few shaves using the DH , try working in the non dominant hand (NDH) a little bit more every time you shave . Pretty soon you will be perfectly comfortable using your NDH . This is how I did it , anyway .

As a emt i would second the neosporane, and vitam E is also good. Must be they day for cuts!! Got a good one myself today!!!

About 6 weeks ago my wife tripped while walking the dog at night (a slight offset in the sidewalk at an expansion joint) and split her face open right underneath her eyeball. It was a very odd wound. It looked like somebody, perhaps an abusive husband, had maybe punched her there with a big ring on his right hand. It looked like a bullet hole surrounded by a good sized area of serious abrasion. I told her we needed to get her to the to the ER to get it stitched up and that I would probably be arrested but we could show that she had called her sister at 5:30 when it happened and I could prove that I had been at the blood bank donating from 5:00 to 7:00 so it probably wouldn't be too big of a problem. So we spend 3 hours at the ER waiting the whole time for the cops to show up and arrest me. I was actually a little upset that nobody ever even raised the possibility that something abusive might have occurred. But I digress.

The doc at the ER put 5 stitches in and said to use a good anti-biotic ointment etc. The next day it really looked terrible, all swollen etc and she stared freaking out thinking she was going to be horribly disfigured so she worked the phones and found a board certified plastic surgeon that would meet with us the next day. He told us that due to the excellent blood supply to the face cuts and wounds there very rarely get infected and given that mild allergic reactions and other side effects to anti-biotic ointments aren't that uncommon (which can actually increase scarring) he recommends against them for facial wounds. He said all you need to do for optimal healing with minimal scarring is just keep it covered with a thin film of Vaseline. You can't even see where it happened now.