Well I thought I might as well share this since there is no one around and i Can't exactly call anyone to get some sympathy. I am in waiting & watching mode, killing some time, typing with 1 hand while (the fun part) my other hand is holding a towel tightly around my tongue (see why I can't phone anyone?) This towel in mouth thing is great if you like gagging a lot, highly effective for that take my word for it. I am hoping I can get my tongue to stop bleeding, A google says if it doesn't stop after holding it for 45 minutes to get help. I think I'm on 25 minutes or there abouts.
It had better stop given I am a giant wus when it comes to taking myself to the hospital (the small clinics and such being closed at this time of night) and I have never ever had stitches nevermind on a place like a tongue...that has got to hurt right? Nope, this has to stop (she says pressing the towel even harder).
I was eating and from I don't know where there was a crunchie sound which pasta shouldn't have...glass :eek: . By the time I realized it was too late, I had a nice lengthwise cut about and inch long and pretty deep. I'll just say that my robe is probably only suitable for some grizzly halloween costume now. Amazing how much damage that cut did, there must be a lot of blood vessels in a tongue. I guess I'm lucky I didn't swallow it as it's quite a long sharp piece (about .5" X .25"). I am also glad I found it rather than the dog when she gets the left over bits too. Gee that would have been bad.
I would sure like to know where that glass came from. I know it wasn't in my pot and if it came in the pasta.... I am going to be really nervous about that from now on. Sheesh, how can you spot clear glass in things like pasta? Maybe avoiding the smaller types and sticking with spaghetti since glass should be noticable with that?
Oh well, I sure do feel like a dignified ultra chic person sitting here with my towel I can tell you. I don't want to have to go get stitches just on principal. How would I drive with a towel hanging out of my mouth? I mean it's a little towel, but it's still kind of noticable. NOpe, just impossible to look cool.
So far, so good...second test and no gushing (which was notthe case after first test I can tell you). Guess I'll keep my fingers crossed (with towel in between) and hope it stays okay. I guess I'll give it another 15 and hope I can put this towel where it belongs.
hmmm an evil thought just occured to me. If I have a cut tongue does that mean I can drink milkshakes for a couple of days and not feel guilty?
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im so sorry to read what happened to you....i dont know how you managed to stay calm...if i had seen all that blood i would have freaked :eek: glad to hear that you have it under control. Eat soft and NO DIGGING!
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janetc
Oh gads that would be painful and scarey. I hope things move along for you so you don't have to go through that again.
I wasn't able to eat for 5 days....... that was total punishment in my case....it was like going on a diet, cold turkey :laugh:
I can laugh about it now but I'm telling you it was not at the time I was in pain.
DBD, it seems I had a bowel obstruction around some scar tissue but luckily after 4days it untwisted itself.....I have been on a regular diet since yesterday and so far I had no movement.....I just had boiled swiss chard and a salad for dinner because I was afraid to eat a heavy meal, hoping that something will get going soon.........argh! don't want to end up in the hospital again :cry:
I am afraid of going out and doing something that could cause this to break open again. I wouldn't wish that vision on anyone especially in a restaurant. Even talking today (and I haven't done much of that except to the dog) lets me know I hurt myself.
I did try and eat a piece of bread and it seems any action that can cause that cut to be near the teeth starts it hurting again so I'd probably end up with a pained face at dinner if not from eating, from not eating.
You could still go to dinner! A nice evening out, with good conversation, a glass of wine, and you can eat icecream for your main and dessert! Go girl!
Glad to hear you're ok. No special dinner out is a bummer though. When I was reading your post it was making me feel sick. I noticed I had my mouth locked tight. Guess it was to help stop your bleeding. LOL.
I just found your thread.
So what has happened to you that you are under the weather?
DBD, oh what an ordeal! Hope your tongue is better now......I guess you and I were both under the weather this weekend.
damn!!!....LOL
Well my tongue not be in shape to give you a thrashing, but I still have wet noodles at my disposal so you'll just have to continue to be your well behaved self.
Boy you're brave! I'm such a wuss when it comes to hurting myself, I would have either fainted or screamed all the way to the hospital! Advil and a milkshake sounds pretty good to me, followed by a good rince with saltwater.
You have a great sense of humour, should help in the healing :)
Well I got it stopped which was a relief. I'm used to hurting myself in less messy ways like sprains and hives and such so this bleeding thing was doing my head in. Just the idea of stitches ...no thanks.
So far so good for staying closed although it did wake me a couple of times when I'd get a shot of pain for some reason.
Anyway, mystery solved. I was trying to figure out where glass might have been involved and finally it dawned on me that my butter dish is glass. Sure enough...chipped and the glass I had in my mouth fit. I must have chipped it when I cut some butter for the pasta. The butter was right out of the fridge so very hard and somehow I must have chipped that dish when cutting it and scooped the piece into the pasta. I am relieved because I would hate to get ultranervous about packaged foods.
On the totally bummer side, it's my SIL's birthday this week and we are supposed to go for dinner at some really good Italian place she discovered. I've been waiting all week for them to say what day and I got the call this morning.....it's tonight. With what I read last night while googling, on this type of cut it said not to eat hard things for a couple of days lest the cut open again and given pasta isn't attracting me at the moment I had to pass. Nuts.
On the bright side it did say not to exercise or do anything to get the blood pumping so I guess I'm off the hook for trying to dig a trench for my electrical or any other physical type work today. Guess that means I have a good excuse to just sit here and play eh? Yeah, have to nurse my tongue...sounds like a good excuse to me and not one that is so over used people will think I'm fudging.
Reno..
well is a darn good thing she is a writer....LOL................. :laugh: and not a speech therapist.......................................... :)
Sounds awful! Hope you are ok today.
I think a salt water rinse followed by a milkshake should do the trick :D
for sure contact the manufacrurer of the product. Also try popsicles but as someone already said the saliva makes it look like more blood than it is.
Get better and keep us posted.
Hope you're feeling better this morning. Although probably very swollen and a very thick tongue. Did you get stitches?
This brings back memories of when my son, then 2, fell over backwards off a chair, and bit his tongue on the top and bottom. It bled non-stop. When I arrived at emergency, the people in the queue, let me go forward as we looked like something from halloween too! Blood pouring down my sons face and all over me. (Can I add that I had to drive through a snow storm too, to get to the hospital!)
After a lengthly three hour wait (with a nurse checking up on us every half hour), and still bleeding, the doctor decided he didn't need stitches, as it wasn't bitten in half 'enough'. Instead he got 4 stitches under his chin, were there was a gash that I only noticed later! With all that blood coming out of his mouth it was hard to see, lol.
Anyway, all was fine by the next day, swollen mouth and tongue, which did restart to bleed a couple of times again that week, but would soon stop.
So that's my tongue story. Once again, hope you're feeling better. That milkshake does sound good!
salt water vs milk shakes lol
tongues have a lot of blood vessels (hence their red colour) but not a lot of pain-nerves - the space in them is all taken up with those blood vessels and the taste-type of nerves; having said that, I do hope it stopped bleeding, and the salt water thing does sound like a good idea (might not taste as good as the milk shake though...) ; the reason that there seems to be a lot of blood and that it doesn't stop is that the saliva dilutes it, and it looks like masses when it really isn't.
lecture over, hope you're feeling better now dbd, keep us posted.
trynto . . she IS a writer lol
Yikes, that's scary!! I hope the bleeding stopped and you're feeling better this morning.
Just a thought -- when I had my tooth removed, I had to rinse my mouth with salt water after eating, presumably to help clean the area and prevent bacteria from forming. It might not hurt for you to rinse your mouth with salt water for a few days, to help keep your tongue as clean as you can.
OMG.....I hope you survived.....although I am sure it was painful...your description was comical........you should be a writer.......hope you are better...keep us posted..........my kids have bitten their tongue a million times before and it stops bleeding within a minute....but biting on glass may require some medical intervention........... :eek: ...................good luck.....
OMG!!!!!....i hope you're feelin' better now...good God a piece of glass in pasta???....i'd be callin' the manufacturer in the morning...my lil cousin once took a slice of Wonder bread and found a piece of glass in it...needless to say...my aunt doesn't buy Wonder bread anymore...i hope you're tongue is better...you better becareful what you eat too...cuz you don't want an infection...altho since you're in pain already...now would be a good time to go get your tongue pierced..... :D ;) ....so does this mean i'm safe from any virtual tongue lashings for a lil while?...i'm kidding!!...hope you're feelin' better