Chatbox log - 2008-06-03 - Zelaron Gaming Forum

[15:04] Coriander: My wounds are directly related to me learning to play the guitar..Thus I am nursing my fingers, thus must keep playing until callaces form to stop said fingers from hurting when I play.

[15:04] jamer123: last month i wreked a mini bike and got a gash in my leg

[15:04] Coriander: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

[15:04] Coriander: I laugh at you.

[15:04] Coriander: O_o

[15:05] jamer123: its going to take all summer to heal

[15:05] Coriander: Your summer is going to suck then.

[15:05] jamer123: ya

[15:06] Coriander: Can I pour salt in your gash? It speeds up the healing process.

[15:07] Coriander: Works wonders if you get a small cut, it heals 50% faster after salt is applied.

[15:07] jamer123: that will hurt but i cant feel it i cut a nerve

[15:07] Coriander: So...is the nerve re-attached.

[15:07] Coriander: If you cut a nerve wouldn't they need to stitch said nerve back together.

[15:07] jamer123: no

[15:08] jamer123: its at the end of a nerve

[15:08] Coriander: A nerve injury can result in a problem with a muscle or in a loss of sensation. In some people, it also causes pain. To understand nerve injury and recovery, it is important to understand the different types of nerve injury. The type of nerve injury will determine the type of treatment that will be needed.

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[15:09] Coriander: Nerves connect your brain and spinal cord to the muscles and skin, giving you movement and feeling. If a nerve injury occurs, there is an interruption in the information being conveyed to the skin or muscles to and from the brain. The larger nerves in your arms and legs, which are about the size of a pencil, are made up of tens of thousands of nerve fibers – similar to the makeup of a telephone cable. The nerve fibers are grouped together in bundles called fascicles.

[15:09] Coriander: Some nerves – such as the median and ulnar nerves in your arm – have motor and sensory fascicles, giving you both movement and feeling in your hand.

[15:09] Coriander: A first-degree injury, or neurapraxia, will recover within days after the injury, or it may take up to three months. The recovery will be complete with no lasting muscle or sensory problems.

[15:09] Coriander: # A second-degree injury, or axonotmesis, also will recover completely; however, the recovery will be much slower than with a first-degree injury.

[15:10] Coriander: A third-degree injury also will recover slowly; in addition, only partial recovery will occur. The amount of recovery will depend on a number of factors; for example, the more scarring in the nerve, the more likely the recovery won’t be as strong, and with the potential mismatching of sensory and motor fibers, the less likely it is that the nerve will fully recover.

[15:10] Coriander: A fourth-degree injury occurs when there is dense scar tissue within the nerve, completely blocking any recovery.

[15:10] Coriander: A fifth-degree injury involves complete separation of a nerve, such as a cut nerve. (Both fourth- and fifth-degree injuries require surgery for recovery.)

[15:10] Coriander: A sixth-degree injury is a combination of other types of nerve injury. Recovery and treatment will vary depending on which types of nerve injury are present.

[15:10] Coriander: You said you cut it. So you have a Fifth Degree Nerve Infury

[15:11] Coriander: Injury*

[15:11] Coriander: and it requires surgery

[15:11] jamer123: mine when i cut it i could see my mustule

[15:11] Coriander: ....Do you know what a nerve is..

[15:11] jamer123: yes its the thing that sends info to the brain

[15:12] Coriander: So therefore what must happen if the nerve is cut?

[15:12] jamer123: no info is getting to the brain

[15:12] Coriander: After nerve injury, the nerve will try to repair itself by sprouting regenerating nerve units. These regenerating units will then try to grow down the nerve to reinnervate (restore nervous function to) muscle or skin. If they make a correct connection – motor nerve to muscle or sensory nerve to skin – then recovery of muscle function and skin sensation will occur. However, if the regenerating nerve fibers do not make a correct connection, then no recovery will occur.

[15:13] Coriander: I.e, a first - third nerve injury will heal like this.

[15:13] Coriander: Nerves regenerate at the rate of one inch per month. Although sensation can be regained even after long periods of denervation (loss of nerve supply), muscle reinnervation will not occur after long periods of time without nerve innervation (nerve supply). Therefore, it is necessary to get nerve to muscle as quickly as possible if recovery will not occur on its own. Electromyography (EMG) tests will show muscle recovery before the muscles can be seen contracting. If there is no evidence of recove

[15:13] Coriander: recovery by three to six months after nerve injury, surgery usually is recommended.

[15:14] jamer123: i think i will not feel the one spot the rest of my life

[15:14] Coriander: You could go to surgery and get your nerve fixed Jamer.

[15:14] Coriander: If you don't then your a fucking idiot.

[15:14] Coriander: If you have the option to get the nerve repaired and don't do it.

[15:14] Coriander: Then your cheese slipped off your cracker a long time ago buddy.

[15:15] jamer123: i didnt have the optine

[15:15] Coriander: You have the option..

[15:15] Coriander: What....is your family the type who say "Nah, it'll heal on your own!"

[15:15] Coriander: Do you even have stitches.

[15:16] Coriander: Stitches, Staples, whatever.

[15:16] jamer123: i had stitches

[15:16] Coriander: Was the gash closed up at a hospital is what I am asking.

[15:16] jamer123: 12

[15:16] Coriander: If that is the case then they did an X-ray and everything.

[15:16] jamer123: yes

[15:16] Coriander: Thus if the nerve had of required surgery then they would have asked your parents if it was ok to operate.

[15:17] jamer123: an x ray

[15:17] Coriander: You probably have a first degree injury if your 'Gash' took only twelve stitches.

[15:17] Coriander: You'll regain the feeling in your leg by the end of the summer.

[15:17] jamer123: it was in a shape of an F

[15:18] Coriander: ...What was..

[15:18] jamer123: the cut

[15:18] Coriander: How do you get an F shaped gash from a mini bike.

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[15:19] HandOfHeaven: lying....

[15:19] HandOfHeaven: all lies

[15:19] jamer123: i hit a fence lol

[15:19] HandOfHeaven: lies I say, LIES

[15:19] jamer123: shut up

[15:19] *HandOfHeaven sticks out his tongue*

[15:20] Coriander: Rofl.

[15:20] Coriander: You hit a fence that had an F shape?

[15:20] *HandOfHeaven shakes Coriander's hand*

[15:21] *Coriander returns the gesture*

[15:21] jamer123: idk how it got into that shape

[15:22] HandOfHeaven: I've had some pretty messed up cuts, but none distinctley like that

[15:22] Coriander: What type of fence did your hti Jamer..

[15:22] Coriander: F...for...Fallen angel!!!

[15:22] jamer123: metal

[15:22] HandOfHeaven: well, except when I got an O burn, but that was from a cig

[15:22] Coriander: .....

[15:22] Coriander: I meant was it a white picket fence.

[15:22] *HandOfHeaven laughs at his dry humour*

[15:22] Coriander: Etc etc

[15:23] jamer123: w/e

[15:25] jamer123: sticks out tunge

[15:25] HandOfHeaven: what's a tunge?

[15:26] jamer123: sorry spelling

[15:26] HandOfHeaven: Coriander, whatup?

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[15:29] jamer123: im going to the arcade

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[15:37] Coriander: Whoops

[15:37] Coriander: Sorry HoH

[15:37] Coriander: Dad was playing the guitar.

[15:37] HandOfHeaven: Nice nice

[15:37] HandOfHeaven: You two should do van halen songs

[15:37] Coriander: If we were good enough.

[15:37] Coriander: I'm just starting.

[15:37] Coriander: He is pretty good though.

[15:38] Coriander: I broke my G string fingering a minor last night.

[15:39] HandOfHeaven: MUAHAHAHA

[15:39] HandOfHeaven: that sucks though

[15:39] HandOfHeaven: I'm trying to beat my high score in 'Pipes'

[15:39] Coriander: Pipes eh?

[15:39] Coriander: Haven

[15:39] Coriander: hgaven't played it

[15:40] Coriander: Arcade right?

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