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2024-04-05, 11:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The palm of the hand HAS to be the worst source of blood...right?
All good points, thank you both for your responses! The control and ease of wound care are both good points (more so for fingertips than the palm of your hand -- palm wounds are just awful to bandage in my experience).
I guess I'm still hung up on two nitpicky practical things: the risk of infection, and the annoyance of bumping your cut on stuff. Major knee or arm scrapes are annoying, but nothing's worse to me than a finger cut brushing against the edge of my pocket or a pen I'm trying to hold.
The first one is unheard of in fiction (despite most of these settings being pre- or non-antibiotics ) and the second is probably a net positive in fiction as Mx. Silver said, since "I'm willing to casually inconvenience myself with this wound" usually makes someone more of a badass and never presents any of the logistics wrinkles that real life would encounter. So I understand why they do it, for the most part, even if it still doesn't feel like the most practical option.