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so to update anyone wondering, healing is going slowly. midway through the weekend my body decided that percocet wasn't going to be a thing. my greatest lesson is that if getting stabbed is an annoyance, nausea/vomiting after being stabbed is having your soul raked over rakes forged in the fires of hell. so i stopped taking that, got switched to vicodin. makes me way less loopy but isn't as efficient at managing pain, so i got that golden 10/10 on the pain scale yesterday while getting the wound checked.

it's doing fantastically well. i can actually see the bottom of the pocket now, which is amazing. we've switched to using medihoney on the wound bed, and after i convinced myself that there probably was some scientific basis to it, i think it might be helping things a fair amount. it means that my side is now oozing and sweet all the time, but that's why we have basic-ass hygiene, squirt bottles to defend against cats, and gauze pads. i'm going in for a surgical consultation to see whether or not there's a way to speed the process alone, since pain is a major issue. until the wound has closed, it's apparently supposed to hurt as bad as/worse than the day it happened. that's been... a problem for me, as i'm sure you all can imagine.

hero cat is good. he's a fucking baby. he will not leave my side. every night he has this new bedtime "ritual" where he very gently crawls onto me, lays his paws against my collarbone and very very lethargically kneads. like, it's basically just him stretching out his hands, no movement at all in the arms. while he does this, he purrs so loudly that he drools all over me.

it's very sweet. he's a good boy. his sister is enjoying the presence of extra treats in the house and is getting rotund. i gotta get back to work, i'm bored as hell.

Sushinope said:
Tactical flashlights (some have teeth on them for breaking windows but you could flash them and cut their face with it) and dog attack pepper spray can be good too.
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funny you mention the tactical flashlight - my dad actually dropped off a bigass maglight at my house. i can't exactly carry it with me everywhere, but i could surely smash a motherfucker's fingers pretty well with it.

cooking has been a pain in the ass since the police took my kitchen knife as evidence. it's truly ad the rat king says, ACAB. i mean sure they arrived and saved my bleeding ass fast as hell, but... that was my nice chef's knife!!
 
cockgoblin said:
it's doing fantastically well. i can actually see the bottom of the pocket now, which is amazing. we've switched to using medihoney on the wound bed, and after i convinced myself that there probably was some scientific basis to it, i think it might be helping things a fair amount. it means that my side is now oozing and sweet all the time, but that's why we have basic-ass hygiene, squirt bottles to defend against cats, and gauze pads. i'm going in for a surgical consultation to see whether or not there's a way to speed the process alone, since pain is a major issue. until the wound has closed, it's apparently supposed to hurt as bad as/worse than the day it happened. that's been... a problem for me, as i'm sure you all can imagine.

hero cat is good. he's a fucking baby. he will not leave my side. every night he has this new bedtime "ritual" where he very gently crawls onto me, lays his paws against my collarbone and very very lethargically kneads. like, it's basically just him stretching out his hands, no movement at all in the arms. while he does this, he purrs so loudly that he drools all over me.
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Not a doctor, so YMMV and all that, but there was research being done even in the 1970s on the use of honey as an antibacterial agent in wounds. It was well-known in the ancient world and turns out to work pretty well, because it kills the bacteria by basically dehydrating them to death. Some people even suggest using it against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, since the dehydration is a chemical action that it's hard for bacteria to resist. TL;DR you probably convinced yourself right. It's nasty but will help heal.

Thanks for keeping us updated. Will you be posting more wound pics for the local sick fuck community? :D
 
Slowboat to China said:
Not a doctor, so YMMV and all that, but there was research being done even in the 1970s on the use of honey as an antibacterial agent in wounds. It was well-known in the ancient world and turns out to work pretty well, because it kills the bacteria by basically dehydrating them to death. Some people even suggest using it against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, since the dehydration is a chemical action that it's hard for bacteria to resist. TL;DR you probably convinced yourself right. It's nasty but will help heal.

Thanks for keeping us updated. Will you be posting more wound pics for the local sick fuck community? :biggrin:
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yep yep! the really interesting part/part i needed to convince myself of is a newly proposed benefit in wound repair specifically! i'm not sure that the exact reasoning has been fully described, but when applied to the wound bed, not only does it act as a microbial agent but it actually helps speed recovery. there are a few advantages i can see from a "did not check but have enough of a background in the stuff that i can probably bullshit it pretty well" - the honey coats the wound bed and helps prevent drying, which keeps dividing cells alive and happy while also making sure there is constant flow of serosanguinous fluid from the interior and out, promoting draining and oxygenation. you've got a constant glucose supply, which dividing cells are thirsty bitches for. and then, and this is me spitballing like a motherfucker, honey is pretty rich in a lot of growth factors that are biologically so conserved that what works for bees undergoing metamorphosis/early rapid growth after hatching might work for human cells as well. it works in the lab, we isolate a lot of these basic proteins from some pretty goddamn basic model organisms.

i should actually do the reading on that, i was just thinking about it in the middle of the night and thought it made some sense. i have a good friend who is in wound repair so i bet she'd be happy to give me a one-on-one chalk talk. in exchange, i'll tell her about pediatric brain cancer or stabbing. probably stabbing. biologists love gnarly stab stories, and several of my friends have straight up told me that looking at my stab wound is both fascinating and the reason they didn't go to medical school.

on that subject: yes! there will be new pics for you nasty bitches. i'll get some during the dressing change tonight. i'll also make sure i get one of the bruise that's formed beneath the actual wound, where all the blood drained under the skin pulled by gravity while i was sleeping. lividity!
 
cockgoblin said:
hero cat is good. he's a fucking baby. he will not leave my side. every night he has this new bedtime "ritual" where he very gently crawls onto me, lays his paws against my collarbone and very very lethargically kneads. like, it's basically just him stretching out his hands, no movement at all in the arms. while he does this, he purrs so loudly that he drools all over me.
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Anyone who says cats don't have empathy is a fucking idiot. When I had a broken bone, my cat would curl up right next to the fracture and purr loudly. Apparently, purring actually heals broken bones. I'm not sure and the reasoning borders on woo, but just the cat caring does a lot.
 
AnOminous said:
Anyone who says cats don't have empathy is a fucking idiot. When I had a broken bone, my cat would curl up right next to the fracture and purr loudly. Apparently, purring actually heals broken bones. I'm not sure and the reasoning borders on woo, but just the cat caring does a lot.
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fucking right? he just wants to be with me and make sure i'm okay. the first time i went to the doc's, by the time i got home, i could hear him screaming on the other side of the door for me and then he wouldn't chill until i sat down with him for a couple of minutes.

to be fair, i took these kittens in when they were super goddamn little, so they definitely think i'm their mom. even if the broken bone healing is woo, the stress hormone release and blood pressure reduction from petting a cat are definitely real and it's hard to feel wound up when they're purring so hard their whole body is shaking and they're kneading you like it's their goddamn job. cats are good as fuck, even the one who didn't save me is a sweet girl. she's just also not very athletic, so i don't hold it against her.
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i tried to take a picture of him making a happy sleepy face, and instead i got a death metal yawn.
 
Damn dude that shit looks nasty. Terrible that happened to you but I'm glad you're mostly intact! Also great to hear that you've got people watching your back. Give hero cat a good pet for me and I wish you a speedy recovery.
 
:islamic:PICTURE TIME:islamic:
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bruise is getting pretty rad. the pocket is looking more and more vaginal these days. still wouldn't recommend fucking it, even if it is full of honey.
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slightly more interior shot. the goop is a mix of serosanguinous fluid and medi-honey. the wound has no odor, which is GOOD NEWS. borders pinkish, but not red, and the mottled red/white of the wound bed is another good sign. well on the road to having the standard number of orifices and a badass scar. i thiiiink it looks better than it did.

popping this behind a spoiler so if you click you know goddamned well you're going to be looking at a knife wound in a pasty whitey. blurry as fuck because this is hard to get pictures of, and my camera doesn't know how to handle the difference in exposure between stab and skin.
 
@cockgoblin, thanks for the pix! I'm a writer, and hearing about your experience has provided a lot of useful information for potential fight scenes. Actually, if you know any writers in real life, they'll probably want to know too. Far fewer people get stabbed these days than you'd think.

... shit, was that creepy? I apologize. :( But honestly, I'm really glad you're keeping us updated on your condition and that it's healing well. This kind of thing must be really fucking scary to experience.
 
Slowboat to China said:
@cockgoblin, thanks for the pix! I'm a writer, and hearing about your experience has provided a lot of useful information for potential fight scenes. Actually, if you know any writers in real life, they'll probably want to know too. Far fewer people get stabbed these days than you'd think.

... shit, was that creepy? I apologize. :( But honestly, I'm really glad you're keeping us updated on your condition and that it's healing well. This kind of thing must be really fucking scary to experience.
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haha, not creepy at all! i'm a writer myself, so i'm cataloging my thoughts/physical feelings in this first week for as much my writing benefit as anyone else's. it's hard to figure out the best way to describe the way it really feels in the aftermath. the closest i've gotten so far is to take the worse scrape you've had, and make it encompass 360° of skin. this is not easily relatable, so it fails as a description, but as yet it's the best i've got and if it gave you that funny clench of visceral horror then i'm close.

thinking about dressing changes makes my guts clench up like nothing else. i know it's going to hurt like a motherfucker and nothing i do will change that, but it has to happen regardless.

and honestly, yeah, it was terrifying. i had a moment tonight where i almost called the cops on my neighbor because she wasn't paying attention, and tried to unlock my door instead of hers. a mistake i can easily see someone making that is totally innocent! but my mind went blank with panic for a second there. it's hard not to go dark places sometimes. but that's why therapy is gonna be a big part of recovering from this. it was fucked up. it is fucked up. i hope, naively, that no one reading this ever has to go through a similar experience and i can take this one for the collective team.

BillionBisonBucks said:
Holy fucking goddamn, you're a giant badass.
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hey, thanks! just taking it one day at a time and wishing i could heal faster so that i can get back to work. these kittens have hungry mouths, and i'm getting stircrazy being in the place it happened every day.
 
I wish I could do something to help, but it sounds like your community is coming together admirably. I suppose I would just like you to remember that you got a good look at the real you, the one that matters in those times of intense stress that most people (thankfully) avoid. For the rest of your life, you can know that you're a fighter when the chips are down.

Also, you might have a familiar? Lots of new information, is my point. Not all of it is bad. Keep those positive revelations kicking around while you process this, and you may diminish long-term trauma, or even turn it into something else.

At least, according to the suspicions of this internet rando. Whatever you do, you've got my permanent admiration for your ability to go loud.
 
i've been cleared to go back to work next week! so i'll take as much time as i can to relax this weekend to do what i can to prep myself for movement and generally.... you know. being out around other people. the mental/emotional side has been more and more of a struggle as i heal. our hope here is that over the weekend, it'll close up - then i can use some of the tools that my friend sent to help with scarring.

maybe. a part of me is like, fuck it, let's get that badass scar, i've earned it.

an aside, i'm very glad i started this thread! it's been a good process for me to work through some of the thoughts, and i appreciate everyone's kindness. it's also been very helpful, because my memory of the last week is basically gone, so it's been really beneficial to look back at what i've written. combination of percs, stress, and shock, i'm sure.

hero cat and sister cat are doing good. they're going to be angry when i go back to work and they don't have constant attention anymore, but mama needs her goddamn paycheck, especially when the investors need data and we've only got 3 employees!
 
in honor of my birthday, i'm gonna give this a little bumparoonie. it's been a month since i got shanked, and i figured you all helped me get through a lot of the really shitty early days, and so i want to give you the closure i've got.

this closure is entirely physical, in that my side has literally closed. mentally, not so much - my case has been moved into an inactive state unless something new comes up. the cut over my eye has been less cooperative than the one on my side, so i'll have a badass anime scar from now on, i guess.

all the same, life goes on. it's been a real trip watching my body literally knit itself back together. thanks, farmers, for talking to me during some dark days.
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I'm glad you're healing alright, it's pretty fucked up what happened. Hopefully they catch the guy who did it.

Although, I do wonder how it's possible that a literal stab wound looks less disgusting than phil's surgically constructed taint.
 
300mm said:
I'm glad you're healing alright, it's pretty fucked up what happened. Hopefully they catch the guy who did it.

Although, I do wonder how it's possible that a literal stab wound looks less disgusting than phil's surgically constructed taint.
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A stab wound is, weirdly, somewhat natural, and something an unfortunately high number of people actually experience in their lives.

Congratulations on surviving this to OP. You are a genuine badass.
 
Happy belated birthday! I'm so glad to hear you're healing well, and you're well enough to go back to work. As for the scars--even if they don't disappear, you can look at them and remember that you're hardcore and survived an attempt on your life, one which might have ended someone with less determination.
 
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