can you look at Blood?

[Darth-Baiter]

I'm okay at it.  mixed emotions.  I do get woozy sometimes.  real blood, not Hollywood blood. 

 

last night my wife cut herself with a bread knife and it was all hands on deck.  I was cleaning the wound and bandaging.  not sure how I kept it together:)

 

I felt she could have benefited from stitches, but she fought me on it.  we got halfway to the ER before she finally waved me off.  I was worried she cut a tendon or something.  her finger moves now.  phew!  It is fine.

 

man..I think BLOOD was my Achilles that made sure I never became a doctor...or nurse.  I assume you get used to it?

[MN Fisher]

Blood has never bothered me...one time I got an 'emergency' phone call from my dad. Mom had sliced a finger when prepping dinner...and he's useless when it comes to injuries like that - mom was a nurse, so she's not bothered. I drove the 1/2 hour from my place to theirs, cleaned her up, a couple steri-strips and some bandaging and it was all done...while dad hid upstairs so he didn't have to see.

[TnRiver46]

My mom would faint for sure 

[gim]

19 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

mom was a nurse

Same, Mother just retired last May from a career as an RN.  So treating wounds in a calm, effective, safe manner was always done properly growing up.

 

I've never really dealt with a lot of blood from a severe wound.  I've broken lots of bones, but nothing that sent the blood gushing.  Not really sure how I would react to be honest.  I field dress pheasants, turkeys, and deer and there's a lot of blood involved with that (especially gutting a deer), but I've done it so many times now its just routine.

27 minutes ago, Darth-Baiter said:

Hollywood blood

[A-Jay]

It was part of my job description for a long time, pretty much by default.

Saw some gruesome scenes much of which I've had to work on to forget.

Boat propellers and human tissue don't mix, Commercial fishing rigging kills guys just about every week somewhere, suicide, bridge jumpers, the list is long. 

It doesn't 'bother me'. 

Started early enough.

Watched my Dad take off his middle finger with a table saw when I was 10.

He barely flinched.

Wrapped up the severed digit along with the wound with his white handkerchief

(always carried one)

and said, "Go get your mother and tell her we need to go to the ER".

They re-attached it but it was a prop for the most part.

Things we remember.

A-Jay

[AlabamaSpothunter]

I'm better as an adult, and it's only my own blood that would do it, but if I had a gasher as a kid or had blood drawn, there was 50/50 I was turning into a fainting Goat.

 

Meanwhile my sister is a surgeon, and blood has never bothered her in the least.   

 

ETA:  You can actually rid yourself of things like this through desensitization therapy.   You're slowly exposed to more and more of what bothers you, until it no longer triggers the same response.  

[Darth-Baiter]

you remind me of a good point.  i think i would freak at many levels  it if was my child bleeding.  wow.  

 

i would put on a helmet first before rendering first aid..just in case i fainted.  hahah.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

1 minute ago, Darth-Baiter said:

you remind me of a good point.  i think i would freak at many levels  it if was my child bleeding.  wow.  

 

i would put on a helmet first before rendering first aid..just in case i fainted.  hahah.

When I was kid I would cut myself on accident playing in the woods with pocket knives.....I would wig out inevitably, and this one time I came running inside flailing my cut finger all over the place screaming.......long story short, it looked like a Haunted House until my parents locked me down, and wrapped it up ?

[Bluebasser86]

Can I deal with it? Yes. Does it bother me? Yes. I've got an idea about how much blood a person is supposed to have in them, so the times I've dealt with someone who has a lot of what is supposed to be inside of them, outside of them, it's stuck with me. 

[DitchPanda]

Blood doesn't bother me in the least outside of being aware there's a right and wrong way to handle it as it pertains to infectious diseases. Needles on the other hand are my kryptonite. I can get a shot but watching somebody else get one...I cant.

[cheezyridr]

as a sheet metal worker, i get cut alot, and don't even know until someone says "hey! you're bleedin all over the place!"  blood doesn't bother me.  often times i'm the guy who will patch you up  if you get injured on the job but don't need an actual doctor, or if you need lookin after before leaving the site to see one. 

i have had metal and other things stab through my hands, arms, legs, etc.  i've seen other people have that happen to them, it doesn't bother me to see that either. 

but needles? forget about it.  i don't want to see it.  makes no sense, i know that.  but it's how i am for whatever reason.

[Darth-Baiter]

needles are no problem for me.  I could inject myself, and I have.  

[Deleted account]

You know the expression "running around like a chicken with no head"? that's a real thing, grandma had a bunch of live stock, and it needed to get to the plate somehow, as a kid I would slit their necks and "miss" the funnel on purpose just to watch them do it, so no.

[ATA]

Man my father is a surgeon and I was there on operating table before I go to school, by age 9 Ive handed him tools ?

So for me it never occurred to me there is something such blood phobia. 

[GreenPig]

I mended up my left index finger as a kid that I pretty much cutoff(miracle it's still there)and have installed stitches twice on myself. I'm ok with blood.

[TnRiver46]

I’m getting a little queasy just reading the replies 

[LonnieP]

Animal blood doesn’t bother me at all but human blood does. When they draw blood from me at the doctors I have to turn my head and look away.

[Log Catcher]

I am like @cheezyridr in that I used to work with a lot sheet metal when I was doing HVAC work. It sent me to the hospital a few times to get stitches. Blood doesn't bother me and needles don't either. I just accepted it as part of life when I was working in the construction trade.

[flyfisher]

When I was a kid it bothered me but as i got older not so much.  I remember climbing once and took a fall on day 1 of a 3 day trip and smashed my leg into the rock.  It hurt but i kept going even with teh blood soaking through my pant leg.  It wasn't till that evening when I cleaned it up and could see the white of my shin bone that I thought, huh, that was worse than I thought.  Being it was day 1 of 3 i wrapped it up and kept going.  

 

The worst though was when I picked up a frameless door type mirror from the top and for whatever reason it just broke clean through.  I had it in one hand and the weight shift caused it to swing and it sliced me right above the ankle.  One of those deep type cuts where you can see the fat cells and it doesn't bleed as much.  Told the fiancé now wife what happened and sent her a picture....basically looked like a grapefruit slice.  Went to the er got like 18 external and 8 or so internal stitches.  Good times.....

[12poundbass]

I’ve been fortunate to not see a bunch of blood and gore so I’m not a 100% sure, but I have a theory. I’ve seen cuts and blood on people and didn’t have an issue except twice. 1: a kid put his hand through a door window and cut it down to tendons.

2: a guy at work cut his finger off on a table saw

 

Both times they were yelling and screaming and I started feeling weird. Maybe it was adrenaline, I’m not sure. 
 

I cut myself plenty of times, shot myself twice with a nail gun and pulled the nails out both times. And have seen others cut themselves. None of those times anyone was screaming and I had no issues. No issues with field dressing deer either.

 

So, I think as long as there’s no chaos with blood and gore I’m good. 
 

I’ve only seen dead people at funerals and my father in-law at his house when he passed and I’ll say that creeps me out. I couldn’t imagine seeing a dead person in a situation other than those two scenarios. I’d be gone like Speedy Gonzales!

[GaryH]

Being a paramedic for 14 years it became common place. It’s amazing what a human mind can get used to. Being calm when everyone else is panicking is priceless.

[ThatZX14Fella]

Depends on how much. A simple cut is fine. A jugular being sliced and seeing blood poor out like a faucet makes me sick to my stomach.

[Way north bass guy]

Being a stonemason, and dealing with sharp pieces of stone every day, as well as metal ( chimneys and flashing etc.), it’s a rare day that there isn’t some blood flying. It’s never a huge amount for the most part, but I have dealt with pretty hardcore blood loss a few times and it wasn’t a major issue. Doesn’t mean I like it, or want to see it again, seeing how it’s supposed to stay inside us, but I don’t think I’m going to faint, or freak out about it too much. 

[scaleface]

EMT here blood yes , vomit no .

[Columbia Craw]

Twenty five years as a police officer will provide more opportunities to see plenty. I’ll spare you the details. The memories never leave.