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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 223758" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Susie, it's a good idea for a kid to keep cutting implements clean. However, if you remind them, chances are they will consider the risk of getting a blood-borne disease to simply add to the experience. While cutting isn't about suicidal ideation, it IS about self-harm and therefore staying healthy isn't exactly high on the agenda.</p><p></p><p>It's like my easy child 2/difficult child 2 - she didn't plan ahead, in terms of keeping herself free from infection or permanent scarring. She's no longer hiding her scars, which is a good thing since the wedding dress she has picked out is going to leave them wide open to view; we're just hoping that guests will be NOT getting much chance to look at her wrists on her wedding day (usually they look at the back of her hands to admire the ring, for example). They hopefully will be dazzled by the overall package; she IS beautiful, breathtakingly so, although there was a time when she felt very ugly and unlovable. Her wedding day will announce to the world that she IS lovable; their eyes will tell them that she IS beautiful.</p><p></p><p>It's such a pity she didn't realise that when she was cutting, when she was 14 to 17.</p><p></p><p>Blood-borne diseases - the main ones to worry about are ones that are transmissable from person to person, and it's highly unlikely that a difficult child cutter is in a position for this to happen. The biggest risk is of bacteria already on the skin of the cutter, being transferred either to the bloodstream or to the tissues surrounding the cut. This happened with easy child 2/difficult child 2 as well as difficult child 3 (although he is technically not a cutter or into self-harm as an outward display of inner pain). easy child 2/difficult child 2 got a coupe of her cuts infected, although she treated them herself. Some of her scars happened that way; other scars were simply due to the cutting itself, even though the cuts were clean and healed well. difficult child 3 on the other hand had surgery on his wrist for a ganglion. He is an obsessive picker, and once the stitches were removed he picked at the scar until it began to open up. We had to keep bandaging it and finally, after six months of it breaking down and getting infected because he couldn't stop picking, we got those soggy waterproof gel-type dressings (difficult child 1 hates them, he says they're weird, they smell, they make him feel like the wound is going gangrenous). It did wonders for difficult child 3's wrist, we needed two of these in succession. We left them on until they began to fall off, usually after a week or so. After two weeks of continuous gel dressings, the scar had healed enough to withstand difficult child 3's picking.</p><p></p><p>difficult child 1 is currently "wounded" - a belt sander at work kicked back and gouged his wrist badly. We picked out some dressings and peroxide for him after seeing the pediatrician on Tuesday. It's a worry because he comes home from work literally covered in dirt, the dirt and sawdust is ingrained into his skin, so the sander probably drove some bugs into his tissues. We just have to rely on his good immune system to do the job.</p><p></p><p>If you're worried about a kid risking infection, you can point out that a good workman looks after his tools. All knives need to be kept sharp but sheathed and ALWAYS cleaned after use.</p><p></p><p>Increasingly, however, EMO is being seen as SOOOOO yesterday...</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 223758, member: 1991"] Susie, it's a good idea for a kid to keep cutting implements clean. However, if you remind them, chances are they will consider the risk of getting a blood-borne disease to simply add to the experience. While cutting isn't about suicidal ideation, it IS about self-harm and therefore staying healthy isn't exactly high on the agenda. It's like my easy child 2/difficult child 2 - she didn't plan ahead, in terms of keeping herself free from infection or permanent scarring. She's no longer hiding her scars, which is a good thing since the wedding dress she has picked out is going to leave them wide open to view; we're just hoping that guests will be NOT getting much chance to look at her wrists on her wedding day (usually they look at the back of her hands to admire the ring, for example). They hopefully will be dazzled by the overall package; she IS beautiful, breathtakingly so, although there was a time when she felt very ugly and unlovable. Her wedding day will announce to the world that she IS lovable; their eyes will tell them that she IS beautiful. It's such a pity she didn't realise that when she was cutting, when she was 14 to 17. Blood-borne diseases - the main ones to worry about are ones that are transmissable from person to person, and it's highly unlikely that a difficult child cutter is in a position for this to happen. The biggest risk is of bacteria already on the skin of the cutter, being transferred either to the bloodstream or to the tissues surrounding the cut. This happened with easy child 2/difficult child 2 as well as difficult child 3 (although he is technically not a cutter or into self-harm as an outward display of inner pain). easy child 2/difficult child 2 got a coupe of her cuts infected, although she treated them herself. Some of her scars happened that way; other scars were simply due to the cutting itself, even though the cuts were clean and healed well. difficult child 3 on the other hand had surgery on his wrist for a ganglion. He is an obsessive picker, and once the stitches were removed he picked at the scar until it began to open up. We had to keep bandaging it and finally, after six months of it breaking down and getting infected because he couldn't stop picking, we got those soggy waterproof gel-type dressings (difficult child 1 hates them, he says they're weird, they smell, they make him feel like the wound is going gangrenous). It did wonders for difficult child 3's wrist, we needed two of these in succession. We left them on until they began to fall off, usually after a week or so. After two weeks of continuous gel dressings, the scar had healed enough to withstand difficult child 3's picking. difficult child 1 is currently "wounded" - a belt sander at work kicked back and gouged his wrist badly. We picked out some dressings and peroxide for him after seeing the pediatrician on Tuesday. It's a worry because he comes home from work literally covered in dirt, the dirt and sawdust is ingrained into his skin, so the sander probably drove some bugs into his tissues. We just have to rely on his good immune system to do the job. If you're worried about a kid risking infection, you can point out that a good workman looks after his tools. All knives need to be kept sharp but sheathed and ALWAYS cleaned after use. Increasingly, however, EMO is being seen as SOOOOO yesterday... Marg [/QUOTE]
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