Surfing Waves

I went out surfing today, and before I could even reach the line up, I stubbed my toe bad on a sharp rock. It sliced it down the middle of my second toe, and it still bleeds if I apply a lot of pressure on it. Will I be able to surf if I wrap it in duck tape or something? Or should I just give it a rest, and not become shark bait?

Well blood is not good in the water for the shark factor. I would worry more about how clean your water is if it is that deep of a cut. You don't want any nasty crud getting into the cut from pollution. If it bleeds so easy maybe a stitch or two is another option

Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many inuendos, can't take it, head will explode!!

That's how you get coral growing in your foot (obviously depends where you are in the world). Happened to a girlfriend of mine, when she got back to Scotland she became the hospital freak with all the doctors wanting a look and a poke at her toe.

I say go for it. If something happens it'll be a good conversation piece and you might also get a good picture which you can post here!
Lets face it, chicks dig gangrenous appendages!

I cleaned it out with peroxide and closed it up with super glue. Haha hopefully it's all G.

Beachbum wrote:I cleaned it out with peroxide and closed it up with super glue. Haha hopefully it's all G.

Beachbum wrote:I cleaned it out with peroxide and closed it up with super glue. Haha hopefully it's all G.

Actually that's a really good way to close up cuts. I've done it before and saved myself a trip to the emergency room. Plus you get a cool scar to remember the incident by

T.I. wrote:

Beachbum wrote:I cleaned it out with peroxide and closed it up with super glue. Haha hopefully it's all G.

Actually that's a really good way to close up cuts. I've done it before and saved myself a trip to the emergency room. Plus you get a cool scar to remember the incident by

Make all the weird faces you want, but when the time comes when you might happen to get a gash, you'll think about whether you're going to want to pay money out of your ass to go to the emergency room or if you're going to get a 2 dollar bottle of super glue and fix it yourself.

T.I. wrote:Make all the weird faces you want, but when the time comes when you might happen to get a gash, you'll think about whether you're going to want to pay money out of your ass to go to the emergency room or if you're going to get a 2 dollar bottle of super glue and fix it yourself.

Ah, the glories of living somewhere with a national health system! You can spend all the 2 dollars you want on glue, over here we'll get a friendly nurse to put a couple of stitches in it for free!

Real Pol wrote:

T.I. wrote:Make all the weird faces you want, but when the time comes when you might happen to get a gash, you'll think about whether you're going to want to pay money out of your ass to go to the emergency room or if you're going to get a 2 dollar bottle of super glue and fix it yourself.

Ah, the glories of living somewhere with a national health system! You can spend all the 2 dollars you want on glue, over here we'll get a friendly nurse to put a couple of stitches in it for free!

Yeah, and a free ride in an ambulance too !

I was relieved after reading through this thread, thought you were asking the difficulties of surfing with a girl.

I didn't know that girls were known as gashes...

At the local pharmacy, in the first aid section, they sell liquid skin, it's antibacterial crazy glue. I use that for any open wounds before surfing. Stings like a mother, but it puts a nice heavy layer of glue on the cut. Great for bottom of the foot gashes from reef cuts

I gotta look for that liquid skin stuff because super glue tends to tear easily.