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So I started this topic so people could post their injuries and the self aid that they've done on themselves. Here are a few of mine: 18 months ago; electrocution. Had just started as the groundskeeper at our library. We use an electric lawnmower and the last groundskeeper had mowed over the extension cord we use to power it. Well, the first time I was mowing, the broken cord (which had been mended with duct tape) actually pulled all the way apart. I received a bit of a secondary shock; on top of the heat exhaustion I already had, I'd been electrocuted so I just signed out and went home for the day. Not much aid in that one. -_-" 12 months ago; type three choking. I was home alone eating a peanut butter sandwich when I started choking. Type three, too. Couldn't even cough. By the time I got into the kitchen (this was before first aid was a thing for me) to get some water and dislodge the gooey sludge blocking my airway, my vision had tunneled and I couldn't see. Gulped down some water and--Presto!--I could breathe. 6 months ago; gash? Was running through the house to answer the door and my foot caught on a carpet nail about an inch out of the doorway. The ball of my foot caught on the head of the nail and I tripped. I stumbled a little bit but didn't feel anything really. Then my foot kinda started to hurt. I looked behind me and there was a trail of blood, a lot of it, behind me. Looking at my foot, I realized there was a gash about a centimeter deep torn out of my foot, just flapping there. . .I went in the bathroom and washed out the dirt. It was really painful to pull the flap back out of my foot to clean it I tore out the carpet nails soon after. . . 3 months ago; cat bite. Stupid frickin' sick kitten wouldn't let me hold her and bit my hand *A* The amount of isopropanol I poured on that puncture wound was enough to make anyone cry. . . Well that's it! Please tell me if what I did was stupid. A lot of there are really old. . .But I wanna hear your self aid stories too!