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[ladyjanelly]

Paid $20 co-pay for the doc to say "Yup, you cut it pretty bad" and to have a nurse show me how to rebandage the wound.

If it doesn't stick to the wound tomorrow I'll consider it money well spent.

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[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

Also, modern science says this is bad, but once I got a ton of minor scrapes when I was about 15. My grandmother put a cap-full of LySol cleaner in a bathtub of warm water and made me soak and not a bit of it got infected.

[alexseanchai]

That sounds like it'd hurt like hell. And these were not minor scrapes--I don't know how fast I was going when I hit the concrete, but it was pretty damn fast, and I left about a square foot of skin on the concrete.

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

Ooh, ouch.

I don't recommend the LySol because it isn't a chemical you should have in your bloodstream, but it was actually very soothing on the wounds. A lot better than Mercurochrome or peroxide would have been.

(looks up Mercurochrome. Oh, look! Contains Mercury. My childhood was a "what not to do" of medical treatment).