I would highly recommend you keep your hand bandaged up, and put some honey on it. Change the bandage out every morning and evening, and apply fresh honey every time. I learned from a surgeon that honey has great antiseptic and wound healing properties, far superior to iodine solutions. You also might want to talk to your doctor about some broad spectrum antibiotics. Apologies if I'm telling you stuff you already know, but I thought I'd mention it just in case. Good luck. I hope you recover quickly and completely.
Hi. Interesting breakdown here with a few comments I can add but one being critical. With any varanus bite you must knock back the bacterial aspect first regardless of the mechanical damage. Right off, a dilute bleach and water solution(just enough bleach to make the water “slippery”) to immerse the hand in for 15 minutes. It will bleed but this step is critical. Historically, I have suffered bites that I did not know enough to do this with and paid the price. You must kill this bacteria in the wound from the monitor or you will suffer further. The bacteria can really cause further pain and suffering. If you do this you can save yourself a great amount of grief. I rarely get bit and train my employees to do this trick right off regardless of the size of the bite. It’s the bacteria I fear, the bite is secondary. I have never been to a doctor over a bite and hope to say this going forward. I’ve stitched myself and often you can recover without such a procedure. Your overview is realistic, you made sone good points and clearly this is a learning event. You’ve added some complications by not soaking your hand and your discomfort is partially due to the lizards bacteria(venom, but I would call it a bacteria that causes the damage and pain). I’d always suggest for people to not target feed monitors and disassociate handling events from feeding events. I could keep going but I don’t want to bore people. Good luck healing! Kev
I remember hearing years back on one of your videos that you do that method for all your employees when they get bit. I didn't have the nerve unfortunately 😅. My method was chlorhexidine to clean the wound, double antibacterial using lidocaine for the pain and bacitracin, then put myself on antibiotics just in case. You're target training comment, are you saying you do encourage or do not? I'm not sure if that "not" was a mistake and would love to hear more insight on it. Definitely not a bore! Any information on varanades coming from a man with your experience is nothing short of valuable.
Hi. I discourage target training if it is an animal that you want to interact with while not having to worry every movement can trigger a sudden feed response. I interacted with a big Komodo dragon and kept noticing sudden changes to his behavior due to various stimuli. I asked, do you target train ??? I knew the answer and they confirmed. Association of yourself and feeding can add problems and confuse your Dino. Kev
How would you go about working with this animal to prevent a food response. Is there a video I can find on the channel. I appreciate your time getting back to me.
This Argus appears to go into a full mental food response right ? I likely need to see him in action on video. If this is his food response then we need to get his brain back online. If this is a “this is my space and I kill everything” type thing we need to break his cycle. I’d remove him from this space and put into a smaller more confining cage to get back to basics with him. The bite might have also freaked him out and now he gets very defensive. I think I need to understand more to compile best bourse forward. K
To wash it use hibiclenz. It kills almost all germs and doesn't hurt and doesn't do tissue damage. Make sure you are straightening those 2 fingers as much as tolerated and the other fingers so you don't get contractures. If you get a fever or red streaking up your arm, you have to get medical attention.
@@davidlacy4016 many do, it just does not always cause harm to humans! “More recent research suggests most lizards do, in fact, possess weak, primitive venom glands, but they are only harmful to small prey animals. “ look it up. Science has learned this fact… I did not say it causes problems ….unless you possibly develop allergies.
@@keithfaulkner6319 if you are talking about lizards then yes, that was my point. Humans begin digestion in their mouth by their saliva, dogs do not! Hence why they appear to swallow it whole sometimes.
This is why I’m always cringing when someone cocky is free handling hot snakes. It’s like anything else in life if you play with fire it’s not if. It’s when will you get burned. I don’t know where you live but osterine will cut your healing by like 40% if it’s not illegal where you live
It's good that your fingers are still attached at the very least. I also respect how you're not afraid to admit fault in a situation like this, whilst still not sugercoating the bite and just the overall risks that come with owning huge lizards. I find people who deliberately underplay just how powerful these animals are, unintentionally do a disservice to the hobby by giving inexperienced people the confidence to go out and buy potentially dangerous reptiles without the necessary research. Not everything has to be "puppy-dog tame" this or "puppy-dog tame" that.
My grandkids are always just SHOCKED if my lovebird bites them. I told them from the get-go. Birds bite. So expect that it will likely happen to you if you try to play with him when he’s crabby. He’s the sweetest little butt-head in the whole wide world though and he adores everyone. Even little kids.
When I had my hysterectomy, most of the area around the incision was numb. Over time, I would get these sharp pin prick feelings deep inside, and occasionally the maddening itch that I could never scratch. My doctor told me that it was the signal that gets sent when two severed nerves meet up and "shake hands with each other." So yeah, nerve pain means healing. Get better soon! (PS, get a buddy to help you around the enclosure maintenance. I know you can't pay him, but maybe you can barter for something.)
Same thing happened to me I had my whole colon removed and bec of how swollen my colon was I had a midline incision it was about 10 inches long and about 5 months after surgery my incision dehissed (busted open) and it was almost like phantom pains almost but definitely the same type of feeling sharp pains and the itch is almost worse than the pain because no matter what u do u can not scratch that itch and even if u can it don't relieve the itch lol
Yo I really hope you go to the doctor how ever much money it cost 10 years from now you will be happy you did. New subscriber and liked the vid hope for a speedy recovery
Man and I got my feelings hurt when my crested/chahoua hybrid bit me for the first time the other day. Of course it felt like nothing...just hurt my ego as we're good buds. You are correct that animal bites generally aren't sutured up due to the bacteria. Hope you heal up quickly!
the clickbait is ok, you told a good story. hope your hand pulls through. i fell asleep on my wrist one time, and woke up with radial palsy for 3 months. terrifying feeling.
Happy that you admit your mistake, it is never the animals fault. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, you have a new viewer and I wish you all the best.
Sorry to hear about this. I am watching this 3 days after a wrist surgery and my hand is a painful noodle really immersive video when suffering pain in same region Wish You speedy recovery!
I was bitten by a 5 foot black water monitor, She mistook my finger as a mouse, she completely shredded the left side of my pointer and cut me to the bone on other, had she cut me as deep as the right, she would have fleshed the tip of my finger off. A bottle of alco gel, 3 tubes of superglue and a finger splint, I went back to work. It took almost 2 years to get total feeling back in tip of finger. Still got the scars from that. I managed the largest reptile and pet store on east coast. Pets Plus, Reptile Addicts ,Kick Balls. Worst bite I ever got in 20+years of dealing with reptiles. Even the Anaconda bites were never that bad. PS. Tail whips are not freakin cool either, when they are coming from a 8 foot Nile!!!
Liked and subscribed to help with the TH-cam woes. Fair play on taking a bite like that and learning from it. If I had to pay for my medical bills I'd be loads more cautious in life! From the UK
Same here... If it happened to me I would just go to the hospital and they would give me stitches for free, and that seems normal to me. But hey, I live in EU :))
It’s common for such an injury to loose sensation temporarily. I nearly cut my index finger off exposed tendons and all. I trimmed the dead tissue around the wounds used polysporn several times a day. Couple months later I have 98% movement and it’s still improving. Keep it clean bud don’t use peroxide
This is one of the things I'm worried about with getting a tegu. I have been bitten by every reptile I've had but a bit from an adult bearded dragon or ball python is way different then an adult tegu. Also be careful of infection, we all know how gross their mouths are. Look and see if there is a free clinic near you and most antibiotics are free. Good luck and heal quick
I got nailed by a massive male adult tegu, the damage wasn't too bad, but the pain was really bad. The owner told me he would never bite me no matter what, lol.
I was bitten by a grown tegu that I was fostering. I think she was just irritated and wanted me to back off. She would tripod at me every time I opened the enclosure but she only bit me once. Learned a lesson about body language from that one lol at least it was just a nip.
My sub adult bearded dragon bit me to bone. On my middle finger. I have an adult tegu aswell and am terrified now of being bit by her...if a small bearded dragon did that to me...what could she do. And she is VERY food motivated, will come LEAPING out of enclosure biting the first thing in distance. She calms down and i still handle her, but it terrifies me.
DUUUDE!!! I’ve never watched you before but your video just popped up as I’m driving home from work & I literally pulled over just to respond to you. I sooo feel your pain! Every time I’ve been bitten was TOTALLY my careless fault as well. But sometimes we need something like that to happen to knock sense back into us. Bites are pretty much inevitable especially for folks like us that’s been doing it for decades because we tend to get relaxed or too cocky like you said. When my then 6’ boa bit me twice last year it was after ignoring very clear warnings from her. My hand hurt like hell & was paralyzed for a few days because she bit into some nerves. Believe it or not but at the time my feelings hurt more because I’ve raised her from a snakelet. So sorry that you have to work on regaining his trust after putting in so much work already but I’m confident that you will.
What a great reply 😊. Don’t beat yourselves up too much. It’s human nature to let our guard down like that. Things go fine for such a long time that we think we will be ok if we just do this or that out of ease or convenience and BOOM. We suddenly realize that we have found that line in the sand. If we didn’t know where it was before, we sure know where it is now. Happens everyday with people. Especially on the interstate here.
Get to the doctor ASAP. With that much swelling and stiffness, better safe than sorry. Hands are just too important to risk--not to mention your life! P.S. if u absolutely can't go, I've used Neosporin to help with some really bad, deeper wounds that got pretty inflamed (note, no where as serious as yours though!). Kept me from having to go in. Just keep washing the area, gobbling on the Neo, and changing dressings.
My experience has been “when you get bit” is always “when I least expect it” and/or “when I get too casual”. That said, thanks for sharing and hope things heal up for you. I tore a finger tendon a couple years back, but I make my living working a keyboard all day and fortunately I have good medical coverage, so I got it repaired. In my case, the surgery and the recovery was definitely more pain than the injury (which was actually painless).
You most definitely will have some sort of nerve damage I’ve had similar finger damage. And yeah 6-7 months you’ll have feelings back so it sucks but it’ll come back. When I got nailed on my thumb I lost feeling and cut a vein and it was shooting blood and have some awesome scars to show for it. It’s always good to keep a med kit with bite care in the reptile room 🤷♂️ it all comes with experience. I hope it all heals up well for you and you’ll be back to filming and editing in no time.
15 years ago I got bit by a 5 foot croc monitor. He was never aggressive, but got tired of my cleaning his cage. Came around the dustpan i was using to hold him back, and bit my palm over the thumb. Like you i grabbed him by the neck. He held on maybe half a minute then let go. I pushed him back in the cage and closed it up. This was nothing more than a "i'm tired of you get away from me" bite. Still. My bad. If i had had a glove on nothing more would have come of it. However, no glove. By the time i reached the hospital on my own, the bath towel wrapped around my hand was soaked. Walked in dripping on the floor, explained what happened, got put on a gurney, and woke up in what looked like a storage closet. ?????? No good explanation for this. Apparently i passed out and went into convulsions from blood loss. Never did hurt, during or after. After a bit a Dr came in, a regulation hand surgeon, and sewed me up right there in what still looked to me like a storage closet. ??????? Rather than use individual stitches, he did like a ladder back and forth with one long thread on the back of the hand. Still have two long scars halfway across. The palm below the thumb was more torn up where the lower jaw did more damage, but got stitched up okay. Antibiotics did ok, except i was allergic to the antibiotic , got a rash, and got a 7-day steroid pill treatment. Never got infected( however i have always had a terrific immune system), and never did hurt unless i pulled on the stitches. Still and will always have scars. But no loss of use, there is a numb section in the web between thumb and index finger, and the index finger gets cold in the cold winter air. I have always been a glove guy. Been bitten probably a thousand times by snakes over the last 45 years. Pain sucks, blood sucks, god made gloves for a reason. I use them. I use them even more since. I have 5 monitors and 100 snakes, up to 12 foot retics. For any snake over 3 feet i wear gloves. For ALL feeding i wear gloves. Grow the hell up, man. Put the damn gloves on. A month ago a 9 foot retic missed the rabbit and grabbed and wrapped my hand. Oops. Glove slid off and went into the cage with the snake.
I hope things are going well for you financially and healing-wise now. TH-cam just recommended this video to me and I can say after hearing you out from this vid alone made me want to do the bare minimum and subscribe. Positive vibez as I watch your other vids!!!
I’m with you I just watch it and subscribe I love his attitude and I’m a huge reptile lover I’ve had them for 38: years anyways yes I love this channel.
Hey man, i feel the pain as i watch you describe it! I work with Mangrove monitors and have been bit many times, (I’d gladly share pics and details if it helps), sameas you think, all varanus have anticoagulant properties in their venom, and if i may share some advice from my experience, no matter how well you clean it, the bite will get infected to a certain degree, and it’s vital that you treat it according to what your argus eats, its diet will largely determine the type of bacteria it carries… long story short, for the worst bite i got, i went to a clinic for starters, was put on wide spectrum antibiotics, didn’t work, started swelling worse with signs of cellulitis, then went to a big hospital, where a specialist analyzed the food that my Mangroves eat, then prescribed a specific antibiotic against bacteria found in seafood, i kid you not my balloon of a hand looked nearly normal within 24 hrs… HOWEVER, within the time my hand was infected, the bacteria had traveled through and started eating on the joints and cartilage of my left hand, it was really tendinitis but presented just as arthritis in the fingers… which has since taken lots of time and rehab to get back to normal…
@@NewEnglandReptile Yeah absolutely! 👍 That worst one was my inexperienced first bite from them😬 and didn’t expect what followed, since then if anything happens i do soak in saline/iodine solution (your bleach one for 15 mins is way better though!) or if there isn’t any nearby at least keep under (clean!) running water for 5 minutes right after the bite…
Sorry to hear about this bite happening to you man. I took one from an Argus that I had and trust I know exactly about all the pain and emotion that ur going thru. Just know that it gets better and it took me about a year for my finger to gain its full functionality back without experiencing a little pain or stiffness. I did end up going to a ER but thankfully the Dr did some research and decided to not stitch my finger which probably allowed it to health much better. Get better 😎
Man I feel you on the no insurance medical bill situation... It's a fucked up reality most of us face in the US who aren't lucky enough to have a job with benefits or are under 26 and on their parents insurance through work. I'm a dog groomer and the vast majority of private companies do not/can't afford to provide medical insurance for employees. If I were to suffer a severe dog bite or other injury I wouldn't be able to afford it. About a year ago I had to go to the ER for acute pancreatitis (most excruciating pain I've ever been in, comparable to appendicitis) and got billed 2 thousand dollars. I still haven't paid it off so it got sent to collections and I know it's destroying my credit. All I can say is I understand you not wanting to go to the hospital over this. An ER visit is not a luxury most of us can afford, especially without insurance. I'm really glad your bite wasn't worse. You legitimately could have lost a finger or two or even your hand from infection. It could have spread to the bone. I'd say all in all you're pretty lucky. Can I ask what you used to fix it up? I'm guessing super glue. Anyways, I subbed and look forward to watching the rest of your videos. I wish you a steady and full recovery 🙏❤️
This medical insurance thing in the USA breaks my heart. You cannot mess with a deep bite especially from a meat eating monitor. You must absolutely check for developing infection. Many normal antibiotics will not help with deep infections. Probably need something like Pristinamycine. Do not wait to get treated if it doesn’t clear up.
Oh I’m so pleased I live in the UK and we have the National Health Service, if we get hurt or bad, regardless of if you work or not or have insurance we get fixed up without the massive bill. The USA should have the same health care.
Things can always be worse. Remember Chandler’s little encounter a few months ago? Granted there’s a big size difference but you still need to guard against things like sepsis. Just keep the wound area clean (cant stress this enough) and it’ll heal.
Im not a Dr. but am a Paramedic and do have a decent amount of medical knowledge. Swelling will usually always cause numbness.. Wether he severed a nerve or not I guess remains to be seen. And I know surgery's and treatment can be extremely expensive especially if you don't have insurance.. But the thing you absolutely have to be careful of is a staff infection. Because that can cause sepsis and be fatal.. A trip to the ER just to be put on some kind of oral Antibiotic is definitely something I recommend.. I hope you get better man..
I hope some of your friends who are experienced in reptiles will give you some help without expecting to be paid. Helping one another when things aren't going well is what life is all about..hope your hand heals really fast.
It’s terrifying how so many bacterial strains are becoming so resistant to drugs. A resistant strain from a monitors mouth would have to be the very last thing I’d want under my skin.
Healthy respect and admission to behavior changes to avoid this in the future. I needed a few courses of antibiotics for a bite I received in May. I'm still rebuilding strength and feeling is not all there. Maybe 70% now compared to before injury. Through an urgent care clinic (3 visits total) in the US with insurance and prescriptions I was sitting around $350. I hope you won't have to suffer to much added out of pocket expense. Hope you get well soon!
Wow, sorry that happened. I’m sure that was a really scary experience. I think one thing a lot of people forget with pets is at the end of the day, they are still animals, even if you think you have them fairly tame.
A few years ago, I had a severe laceration on half of my middle finger as well, and the surface feeling never came back to the finger tip on the side that was cut. I can feel the meat below the surface, but the sense of touch in the skin there is gone. I've gotten used to it and it no longer hurts, but I know that shooting pain/numbness that you're talking about. I'm 5 years out now and it only does that shooting/buzzing/numbness when I bump or hit the scarred area.
After a week you could try one of those stress balls and start by just holding it. Then when that doesn’t hurt much start squeezing the stress ball. The worst thing you can do is not moving it. Your tendons and muscles will freeze. And if your close to a Canadian border come up here.
I had a granade blast rip the skin off of three of my fingers in Afghanistan, it took ages for the skin to grow back. In 3 years or so you will most likely regain feel somewhat and full motion. The nerves re-rout with physioteraphy. That shooting pain when you stretch your arms or fingers takes 2 1/2 months to go away but it does.
I hope you feel better soon! Thats crazy, heading over to instagram now! I agree they probably wouldn't stitch it at the emergency room. I know for sure they don't stitch dog bites and I think this falls under the same reasoning.
Glad it seems to be doing good and thank goodness it’s not all infected 🙏😬 Love how self aware you are about what happened, that’s the only way we learn lol Also love the whole “thinking you were Kevin” comment lol 🤣😆
Sorry that happened to you man I know all about severe hand damage, looking at what happened to you I think you'll make a full recovery it will just take time. I'm with you though the American medical system is a joke, we have the best doctors and advanced medicine but the crooks that control it make it impossible for the actual working class to access. Hope you heal soon!
That sucks man. I hope you heal up soon. But in the meantime, the spray bottle problem, you should get a fertiliser spray bottle. I have 2 of them. They come with a shoulder strap and a long hose with a nozzle sprayer, so you can carry it on your shoulder and use your left hand to operate the sprayer
Add a flower pot dolly to the one or 2 gallon sprayer and pull it along. It is what I use. I tied the strap to the flower dolly so it does not tip as I use it.
Almost cut my finger off and I had cut through the tendon they are reattached and I also lost temporary use/feeling but it came back slowly and gets better and better each year. You will heal buddy lesson learned in the end they are wild and there accidents have big consequences stay safe buddy !! Great videos gained a new sub here. I only have chameleon but love all his cousins!!!
Be psyched this was not a croc monitor bro... You gonna be aok..... I believe your hand will heal close to 100% within 6 mos..... You’ll have use of your middle finger also.... Don’t stress bro...... I gotten hit much worse am fully healed... You’re a youngster..... You’ll be alright brother......
What you're describing is exactly how it felt when I accidentally stabbed myself in the hand and cut a nerve. You'll be able to use the finger again just fine, it's stuff because of internal swelling, the feeling will never fully return though. Half of my index finger completely lost feeling after the injury, felt like it had been numbed where I could just feel pressure. Now that it's been more than 10 years feeling has mostly returned around the tip of my finger and the base but most of the middle I only have maybe 40%feeling if that. Also that part of my finger is super sensitive to cold and can't feel heat at all. I had nerve surgery, mostly because one of the nerve endings swelled up into a neuroma and as a result I was getting all sorts of weird phantom sensations in my finger. So they removed the swollen ending and did what they could to try and reattach the nerve. Wish you the best with your hand.
Man, that is rough and I'm sorry to hear you're going through this. On the nerve damage front... about 30 years ago when I was a young man with an unhealthy knife fascination, I basically circumcised the tip of my left index finger. Thankfully there was enough left connected that the flesh didn't sluff off. It took about a year to regain feeling in my fingertip and it was messed up as hell. It never actually felt like the tip was touching anything, it was other parts of the finger that would either feel a pressure or a searing pain when the tip was touched. It took about 2-3 years before what I'm guessing is my brain was able to re-wire itself and connect the location with the sensations to a point where I could actually tell my fingertip was touching something. No medical intervention is going to make that any better, it's just a waste of money. The only thing a medical professional can offer is antibiotics. If the wound has scabbed finally there's no need for stitches. My parents were the type that wouldn't take their kids to the doctor unless we were on the verge of death. When I was 16 I was playing with a machete and missed a swing that hit just below my knee and took a piece of bone out with it. I wish I'd had stitches for that one. Damn thing would bust open almost daily when I moved and it took about 3 months for the scab to finally get a good hold and stop popping open. Antibiotics and keeping it clean are all the docs can offer aside from stitches. I got an Argentine B&W male tegu this summer. He's about a year old and around 3 feet currently and I worry about this a lot. He's very shy and tries to run off and hide any time I interact with him. It's a slow process. Twice now though he's been hungrier than I anticipated and launched himself through the air at my hand when I opened his enclosure. He's tagged me twice but they were glancing blows and he's still little. It does make me worry though if he hits full size and we're still not on touchy-feely terms. I have noticed since those two times that he has "modes" and I watch for those indicators. When he's in "food mode" there is nothing to be done to get him to snap out of flying, jump, and eat mode until he's gotten a few Reptilinks in him. Then he calms down and enters "normal mode". At that point he's gentle as a puppy taking food from my hand to the point he rather drop the link than risk getting too close to my fingers. But in food mode, forget about it. His brain isn't there, just his instinct. It's like when they enter explore mode. You can be walking right behind him and he's oblivious because he's exploring. The minute he switches modes and realizes I've been right behind him, it's fight or flight mode and he flees at warp speed. I'm coming to the conclusion that no matter how much trust we build up with them, if they're brain enters the wrong mode, we're dealing with a wild animal all over again. I hope you both recover both physically for you and emotionally for both of you. Many kudos to your dedication. So many people instantly write off an animal after it has had a natural reaction and never analyze the situation and the part they played in it. You're an amazing keeper. Wishing you all the best man!
That's a bummer man. I had a hand injury a few years back, severed a tendon with an angle grinder being too lax with it, bounced off a car fender and hit my hand, all kinds of fun, all my own fault. Even better, I'm a musician so I kinda need to deal with that, I pay through the ass for insurance which did come in handy. I had surgery and was back playing a few weeks later, did PT and all that while getting my playing back, essentially a total recovery, with a little loss of motion. I still can't properly flip people off, oh well. I think the total was about $20,000 all told (I paid my crazy high deductible of course). A stop in an urgent care for antibiotics (which are generally cheap, some are like 5 or 10 bucks) and a look see would only cost a couple hundred bucks at most (see an actual doctor, not a Physician's assistant or nurse practitioner). Infections can end you up in the forever box, just go to an urgent care with an actual doctor if it starts getting infected, it's nowhere near as expensive as an ER visit. A visit with a hand specialist would cost about the same, you could at least get some answers on how severe the damage is, if things are severed etc. I know you probably won't do it, but basic doc visits aren't crazy expensive. It's not like they can, or want, to force you into surgery or anything (especially if you're telling them you can't pay for it lol), any good doc will give you the best answers they can, and I guarantee they'll want to put you on some antibiotics as a precaution. Anyhoo, we sure can make some stupid mistakes, best of luck to you, honestly doesn't look that bad over youtube anyway considering how many holes the lovely beast put there lol, swelling is inevitable.
You mentioned "clickbait". This would be the one time I wouldn't object to it. You were honest about needing the monetization. Good for you. Hope you get thousands of views.
I remember how big my hand got when I got bit by a stray cat, to this day it’s just a smidge bigger than my other hand. God that was so scary ✨wishing you a speedy recovery ✨
I had a female panoptes who i tong fed from hatchling to beginning of adult stage. She started to get real aggressive beyond what she already was like so i transitioned to only feeding from the same blue dog dish, placing food in enclosure before the lights come on for regular feeding. After awhile she became alot less aggressive towards me. Only if i force handled she would hiss or tail whip at me. Dish feeding became fun at times because i can tap on the dish, put it on the floor, and open the cage to let her voluntarily roam and search for it outside the enclosure. Mine seemed to save biting as a last resort, tail and intimidation was her main weapons of choice. Great video and good info in the comments as well. Sorry about the hand brotha, hope it continues to heal and i hope you gain full mobility again soon. These bites are no joke and why i dont let friends handle even the most docile of my collection. Only Odatria get handled by friends and their kids.
As someone who has lost fingers on both hands, and someone who has got bite but a rattler, you need to try and move your fingers , or else it will just get more difficult and painful to move your hand when the swelling goes down.
dropping a comment for support. that is gonna be a tough recovery bud. on the bright side neither of your fingers dropped, I had hand surgery 3 weeks ago because of severed tendons and my finger straight dropped and I couldn't flex up at all. you should bounce back.
Good luck bro that really sucks . I was bit by a 4 ft monitor on the arm when I was kid working at a pet shop i worked at. luckily the bite wasn't too bad, it was just a bit of a nip but it did get infected. It sucked and took a long time to heal. But I was being stupid and i was really green and not used to working with them also the animals weren't really fed or treated very well there so I don't blame him. Anyways good luck with the wound and nerve damage bro. I really hope it all works out.
I had a Asian water monitor he was 6 feet 105 pounds I never feed him live food. I’ve been having monitor lizards for 38 years and the number one thing I’ve learned if you feed them live food there more aggressive by nature and the ones that I didn’t feed live food were more docile. But that being said they don’t act like dogs they are reptiles and you always got to be very careful.
Just subbed gunna watch a load of your videos in the hope that it helps your stats abit ( I know it probably won't because I'm just one person). Really sucks man I feel for you.
My worst bite was from a Blue & Gold Macaw parrot, when i worked at Rain Forest cafe.. got bit at the WORST possible spot at the base of my finger nail, and THEN, a week later, my adult Corn snake bit & wrapped me…. nailing me RIGHT in the exact same spot/slice… (my fault, a feeding error from getting to complacent & lazy.) It’s STILL f’efed up today, but everyone assumes it’s from my acrylic nails I wore for years. Well, I know everybody thinks of Bearded Dragons as Powder Puffs, but they have a NASTY BITE, if they bite you on PURPOSE… YOU WILL BLEED. (Some Beardies are just grumpy…. I’ve been surprised how much folks ignore this fact, & market them to kids.💀)
Hands are just full of bones and what not. I broke a pinky and it still hurts when it gets cold. Some crazy lady on a volunteer job smashed it with a table. Though I smashed my fingers into the ground and that hurt for months. Fortunately I can use both hands equally. So I did my school tests with my left hand. What sucks is there is little that can be done for pain. Pills can help a little with swelling but as for venoms or infections heck no fun dude. Hope none of the bones are infected.
I am the same way. I like wild reptiles that are aggressive to see how long it takes to get them settle down. It took over 40yr to fill my right hand after getting bit by a rattle snake. Sorry that happened to you dude. I like your videos.
Glad your fingers are still in tact and hopefully you're on the mend. They certainly don't take prisoners. Mine only seem tame before they are fully warmed up in the morning. Once warm I'm always on my guard. I've had stitches due to being a bit complacent, but luckily nothing as bad as yours. Just subcribed👍🏻.
If you’re not going to go to the hospital, don’t over work it! I’ve almost lost my thumb and index finger and the best advice I had from my surgeon and pt tech was dont over work it because your scared of losing movement! I was petrified I’d lose my fingers and I kept moving them and working my pt movements but I got obsessed “to beat them from becoming useless on me” and I over did it so much I caused more damage! So please if you don’t want to go to the hospital, let it rest, and don’t become like me and obsessed with moving your fingers to save motion, it’ll only cause more harm!!! And if after a few months they begin to “sag or fall down “ and “you can’t lift them individually “ tendons were damaged… Glad you’re at least able to chuckle at it lol ❤🦎
My leopard gecko and I have a love hate relationship. He's a good boy who eats from my hands but he is easily spooked but he always forgives. you and bimpson will get through it
I got bit by a medium sized iguana that got spooked and it took a chunk out of the side of my finger and that is not even a predator. I can't imagine getting bit like you did.
I have had an injury on my Index finger that was pretty similar. I lost the ability to bend it and didnt feel my fingertip. It took about 3 months of training until it would move again. You should avoid cold water too because that will hurt like a bitch because of the open nerve endings. I used a stressball to rehab my hand. I pretty much almost split my index finger in halve and now I "only" dont feel half of my fingertip and im really sensitive to temperature in that area. I think you can manage that.
I am unemployed right now and don't have insurance. I live in WA state. So I have to pray that I don't get sick or injured. I know how you feel. Also you could have lost a finger like Tyler did after his King cobra bite.
If a doctor said he had a stick of needle through my chest into my heart I would take it like a champ. I've been in and out of the hospital so much they could hit bone and I wouldn't even flinch. They purposely brought new people to practice drawing blood I was so popular. I told them I'd be a guinea pig for all the new people. I'd reassure them not to worry about hurting me so they wasn't worried to death that I was going to squirm in pain or be vocal about it.
For those asking, here is an updated video on how the bite is doing.
th-cam.com/video/5Ll_i-QJpHw/w-d-xo.html
Sorry to hear this happened
I would highly recommend you keep your hand bandaged up, and put some honey on it. Change the bandage out every morning and evening, and apply fresh honey every time.
I learned from a surgeon that honey has great antiseptic and wound healing properties, far superior to iodine solutions.
You also might want to talk to your doctor about some broad spectrum antibiotics.
Apologies if I'm telling you stuff you already know, but I thought I'd mention it just in case.
Good luck. I hope you recover quickly and completely.
I actually thought you had a serious bite, when i read the video title.... joker.
Hi. Interesting breakdown here with a few comments I can add but one being critical. With any varanus bite you must knock back the bacterial aspect first regardless of the mechanical damage. Right off, a dilute bleach and water solution(just enough bleach to make the water “slippery”) to immerse the hand in for 15 minutes. It will bleed but this step is critical. Historically, I have suffered bites that I did not know enough to do this with and paid the price. You must kill this bacteria in the wound from the monitor or you will suffer further. The bacteria can really cause further pain and suffering. If you do this you can save yourself a great amount of grief. I rarely get bit and train my employees to do this trick right off regardless of the size of the bite. It’s the bacteria I fear, the bite is secondary. I have never been to a doctor over a bite and hope to say this going forward. I’ve stitched myself and often you can recover without such a procedure. Your overview is realistic, you made sone good points and clearly this is a learning event. You’ve added some complications by not soaking your hand and your discomfort is partially due to the lizards bacteria(venom, but I would call it a bacteria that causes the damage and pain). I’d always suggest for people to not target feed monitors and disassociate handling events from feeding events. I could keep going but I don’t want to bore people. Good luck healing! Kev
I remember hearing years back on one of your videos that you do that method for all your employees when they get bit. I didn't have the nerve unfortunately 😅. My method was chlorhexidine to clean the wound, double antibacterial using lidocaine for the pain and bacitracin, then put myself on antibiotics just in case. You're target training comment, are you saying you do encourage or do not? I'm not sure if that "not" was a mistake and would love to hear more insight on it. Definitely not a bore! Any information on varanades coming from a man with your experience is nothing short of valuable.
Hi. I discourage target training if it is an animal that you want to interact with while not having to worry every movement can trigger a sudden feed response. I interacted with a big Komodo dragon and kept noticing sudden changes to his behavior due to various stimuli. I asked, do you target train ??? I knew the answer and they confirmed. Association of yourself and feeding can add problems and confuse your Dino. Kev
How would you go about working with this animal to prevent a food response. Is there a video I can find on the channel. I appreciate your time getting back to me.
This Argus appears to go into a full mental food response right ? I likely need to see him in action on video. If this is his food response then we need to get his brain back online. If this is a “this is my space and I kill everything” type thing we need to break his cycle. I’d remove him from this space and put into a smaller more confining cage to get back to basics with him. The bite might have also freaked him out and now he gets very defensive. I think I need to understand more to compile best bourse forward. K
This was a very informative read. Thank you!
To wash it use hibiclenz. It kills almost all germs and doesn't hurt and doesn't do tissue damage. Make sure you are straightening those 2 fingers as much as tolerated and the other fingers so you don't get contractures. If you get a fever or red streaking up your arm, you have to get medical attention.
They also have venom, so no cleaning product will care for that. Most lizards have some venom. If you happen to be allergic it can be far worse.
“Most Lizards have some venom”….
You couldn’t be more wrong.
@@davidlacy4016 many do, it just does not always cause harm to humans! “More recent research suggests most lizards do, in fact, possess weak, primitive venom glands, but they are only harmful to small prey animals. “ look it up. Science has learned this fact… I did not say it causes problems ….unless you possibly develop allergies.
It depends on what you call venom. Some people call almost all salivary products venom.
@@keithfaulkner6319 if you are talking about lizards then yes, that was my point. Humans begin digestion in their mouth by their saliva, dogs do not! Hence why they appear to swallow it whole sometimes.
It’s so easy to confuse extreme confidence with being tame. These guys are the real deal and not really afraid of anything once they get big!
Truth. They fear nothing and only want to eat lol
This is why I’m always cringing when someone cocky is free handling hot snakes. It’s like anything else in life if you play with fire it’s not if. It’s when will you get burned. I don’t know where you live but osterine will cut your healing by like 40% if it’s not illegal where you live
It's good that your fingers are still attached at the very least. I also respect how you're not afraid to admit fault in a situation like this, whilst still not sugercoating the bite and just the overall risks that come with owning huge lizards.
I find people who deliberately underplay just how powerful these animals are, unintentionally do a disservice to the hobby by giving inexperienced people the confidence to go out and buy potentially dangerous reptiles without the necessary research. Not everything has to be "puppy-dog tame" this or "puppy-dog tame" that.
Well shit I thought bimpson was puppy dog tame until a couple days ago 😂
My grandkids are always just SHOCKED if my lovebird bites them. I told them from the get-go. Birds bite. So expect that it will likely happen to you if you try to play with him when he’s crabby. He’s the sweetest little butt-head in the whole wide world though and he adores everyone. Even little kids.
When I had my hysterectomy, most of the area around the incision was numb. Over time, I would get these sharp pin prick feelings deep inside, and occasionally the maddening itch that I could never scratch. My doctor told me that it was the signal that gets sent when two severed nerves meet up and "shake hands with each other." So yeah, nerve pain means healing. Get better soon! (PS, get a buddy to help you around the enclosure maintenance. I know you can't pay him, but maybe you can barter for something.)
Same thing happened to me I had my whole colon removed and bec of how swollen my colon was I had a midline incision it was about 10 inches long and about 5 months after surgery my incision dehissed (busted open) and it was almost like phantom pains almost but definitely the same type of feeling sharp pains and the itch is almost worse than the pain because no matter what u do u can not scratch that itch and even if u can it don't relieve the itch lol
Yo I really hope you go to the doctor how ever much money it cost 10 years from now you will be happy you did. New subscriber and liked the vid hope for a speedy recovery
Man and I got my feelings hurt when my crested/chahoua hybrid bit me for the first time the other day. Of course it felt like nothing...just hurt my ego as we're good buds. You are correct that animal bites generally aren't sutured up due to the bacteria. Hope you heal up quickly!
Ayye I gave proper info!
the clickbait is ok, you told a good story. hope your hand pulls through. i fell asleep on my wrist one time, and woke up with radial palsy for 3 months. terrifying feeling.
Best wishes for a full recovery. Appreciate your videos from Ontario Canada.
I had a knee surgery and was told that nerve damage will take a year to recover. I wish you a speedy recovery, nerve injuries are never ever fun.
Naughty boy Bimpson!
Take care of yourself Dakota! Keep on keeping on and don't let this get you down!
Happy that you admit your mistake, it is never the animals fault. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, you have a new viewer and I wish you all the best.
It's not the tattoo part of the needles that makes me wonder how you can have a phobia, it's the piercings part that questions me.
This guy jingles more than a cowboy, I'm sure it makes him feel like SUCH an individual though. 🙄
@@thecaptain29 Oh relax, what's your problem? It's their business and theirs alone, definitely not yours or mine.
Sorry to hear bud :( I'm sure you and Bimpson will get along well again! Like the great Steve Irwin used to say, respect is key with any animal!
Sorry to hear about this. I am watching this 3 days after a wrist surgery and my hand is a painful noodle really immersive video when suffering pain in same region
Wish You speedy recovery!
I was bitten by a 5 foot black water monitor, She mistook my finger as a mouse, she completely shredded the left side of my pointer and cut me to the bone on other, had she cut me as deep as the right, she would have fleshed the tip of my finger off. A bottle of alco gel, 3 tubes of superglue and a finger splint, I went back to work. It took almost 2 years to get total feeling back in tip of finger. Still got the scars from that. I managed the largest reptile and pet store on east coast. Pets Plus, Reptile Addicts ,Kick Balls. Worst bite I ever got in 20+years of dealing with reptiles. Even the Anaconda bites were never that bad. PS. Tail whips are not freakin cool either, when they are coming from a 8 foot Nile!!!
Liked and subscribed to help with the TH-cam woes. Fair play on taking a bite like that and learning from it. If I had to pay for my medical bills I'd be loads more cautious in life! From the UK
Same here... If it happened to me I would just go to the hospital and they would give me stitches for free, and that seems normal to me. But hey, I live in EU :))
It’s common for such an injury to loose sensation temporarily. I nearly cut my index finger off exposed tendons and all. I trimmed the dead tissue around the wounds used polysporn several times a day. Couple months later I have 98% movement and it’s still improving. Keep it clean bud don’t use peroxide
Good to know 🤟
This is one of the things I'm worried about with getting a tegu. I have been bitten by every reptile I've had but a bit from an adult bearded dragon or ball python is way different then an adult tegu.
Also be careful of infection, we all know how gross their mouths are. Look and see if there is a free clinic near you and most antibiotics are free. Good luck and heal quick
Not to worry already got it all covered 😎
I got nailed by a massive male adult tegu, the damage wasn't too bad, but the pain was really bad. The owner told me he would never bite me no matter what, lol.
@@rdizzy1 any time someone asks if an animal will bite I tell them "they do have teeth, so they can"
I was bitten by a grown tegu that I was fostering. I think she was just irritated and wanted me to back off. She would tripod at me every time I opened the enclosure but she only bit me once. Learned a lesson about body language from that one lol at least it was just a nip.
My sub adult bearded dragon bit me to bone. On my middle finger. I have an adult tegu aswell and am terrified now of being bit by her...if a small bearded dragon did that to me...what could she do. And she is VERY food motivated, will come LEAPING out of enclosure biting the first thing in distance. She calms down and i still handle her, but it terrifies me.
DUUUDE!!! I’ve never watched you before but your video just popped up as I’m driving home from work & I literally pulled over just to respond to you. I sooo feel your pain! Every time I’ve been bitten was TOTALLY my careless fault as well. But sometimes we need something like that to happen to knock sense back into us. Bites are pretty much inevitable especially for folks like us that’s been doing it for decades because we tend to get relaxed or too cocky like you said. When my then 6’ boa bit me twice last year it was after ignoring very clear warnings from her. My hand hurt like hell & was paralyzed for a few days because she bit into some nerves. Believe it or not but at the time my feelings hurt more because I’ve raised her from a snakelet. So sorry that you have to work on regaining his trust after putting in so much work already but I’m confident that you will.
What a great reply 😊. Don’t beat yourselves up too much. It’s human nature to let our guard down like that. Things go fine for such a long time that we think we will be ok if we just do this or that out of ease or convenience and BOOM. We suddenly realize that we have found that line in the sand. If we didn’t know where it was before, we sure know where it is now. Happens everyday with people. Especially on the interstate here.
Get to the doctor ASAP. With that much swelling and stiffness, better safe than sorry. Hands are just too important to risk--not to mention your life!
P.S. if u absolutely can't go, I've used Neosporin to help with some really bad, deeper wounds that got pretty inflamed (note, no where as serious as yours though!). Kept me from having to go in. Just keep washing the area, gobbling on the Neo, and changing dressings.
My experience has been “when you get bit” is always “when I least expect it” and/or “when I get too casual”. That said, thanks for sharing and hope things heal up for you. I tore a finger tendon a couple years back, but I make my living working a keyboard all day and fortunately I have good medical coverage, so I got it repaired. In my case, the surgery and the recovery was definitely more pain than the injury (which was actually painless).
I am sorry for your injury and pray for healing to your fingers and gaining of full use to your dominant hand.
You most definitely will have some sort of nerve damage I’ve had similar finger damage. And yeah 6-7 months you’ll have feelings back so it sucks but it’ll come back. When I got nailed on my thumb I lost feeling and cut a vein and it was shooting blood and have some awesome scars to show for it. It’s always good to keep a med kit with bite care in the reptile room 🤷♂️ it all comes with experience. I hope it all heals up well for you and you’ll be back to filming and editing in no time.
Hope you recover soon. Dont let this setback keep you down.
Thanks man🤟
15 years ago I got bit by a 5 foot croc monitor. He was never aggressive, but got tired of my cleaning his cage. Came around the dustpan i was using to hold him back, and bit my palm over the thumb. Like you i grabbed him by the neck. He held on maybe half a minute then let go. I pushed him back in the cage and closed it up.
This was nothing more than a "i'm tired of you get away from me" bite.
Still. My bad. If i had had a glove on nothing more would have come of it.
However, no glove.
By the time i reached the hospital on my own, the bath towel wrapped around my hand was soaked. Walked in dripping on the floor, explained what happened, got put on a gurney, and woke up in what looked like a storage closet. ?????? No good explanation for this. Apparently i passed out and went into convulsions from blood loss.
Never did hurt, during or after.
After a bit a Dr came in, a regulation hand surgeon, and sewed me up right there in what still looked to me like a storage closet. ???????
Rather than use individual stitches, he did like a ladder back and forth with one long thread on the back of the hand. Still have two long scars halfway across.
The palm below the thumb was more torn up where the lower jaw did more damage, but got stitched up okay.
Antibiotics did ok, except i was allergic to the antibiotic , got a rash, and got a 7-day steroid pill treatment.
Never got infected( however i have always had a terrific immune system), and never did hurt unless i pulled on the stitches.
Still and will always have scars. But no loss of use, there is a numb section in the web between thumb and index finger, and the index finger gets cold in the cold winter air.
I have always been a glove guy. Been bitten probably a thousand times by snakes over the last 45 years. Pain sucks, blood sucks, god made gloves for a reason. I use them.
I use them even more since.
I have 5 monitors and 100 snakes, up to 12 foot retics. For any snake over 3 feet i wear gloves. For ALL feeding i wear gloves.
Grow the hell up, man. Put the damn gloves on.
A month ago a 9 foot retic missed the rabbit and grabbed and wrapped my hand. Oops.
Glove slid off and went into the cage with the snake.
This is why I don't like to push my luck with Monitors. When they're in food mode you don't know for sure what they'll do.
I hope things are going well for you financially and healing-wise now. TH-cam just recommended this video to me and I can say after hearing you out from this vid alone made me want to do the bare minimum and subscribe. Positive vibez as I watch your other vids!!!
I’m with you I just watch it and subscribe I love his attitude and I’m a huge reptile lover I’ve had them for 38: years anyways yes I love this channel.
My husband is terrified of needles,has tattoos. It's apparently different lmao
Hey man, i feel the pain as i watch you describe it! I work with Mangrove monitors and have been bit many times, (I’d gladly share pics and details if it helps), sameas you think, all varanus have anticoagulant properties in their venom, and if i may share some advice from my experience, no matter how well you clean it, the bite will get infected to a certain degree, and it’s vital that you treat it according to what your argus eats, its diet will largely determine the type of bacteria it carries… long story short, for the worst bite i got, i went to a clinic for starters, was put on wide spectrum antibiotics, didn’t work, started swelling worse with signs of cellulitis, then went to a big hospital, where a specialist analyzed the food that my Mangroves eat, then prescribed a specific antibiotic against bacteria found in seafood, i kid you not my balloon of a hand looked nearly normal within 24 hrs… HOWEVER, within the time my hand was infected, the bacteria had traveled through and started eating on the joints and cartilage of my left hand, it was really tendinitis but presented just as arthritis in the fingers… which has since taken lots of time and rehab to get back to normal…
If you soaked your hand like I sausage in my above comment so much would have been different. K
@@NewEnglandReptile Yeah absolutely! 👍 That worst one was my inexperienced first bite from them😬 and didn’t expect what followed, since then if anything happens i do soak in saline/iodine solution (your bleach one for 15 mins is way better though!) or if there isn’t any nearby at least keep under (clean!) running water for 5 minutes right after the bite…
Sorry to hear about this bite happening to you man. I took one from an Argus that I had and trust I know exactly about all the pain and emotion that ur going thru. Just know that it gets better and it took me about a year for my finger to gain its full functionality back without experiencing a little pain or stiffness. I did end up going to a ER but thankfully the Dr did some research and decided to not stitch my finger which probably allowed it to health much better. Get better 😎
Man I feel you on the no insurance medical bill situation... It's a fucked up reality most of us face in the US who aren't lucky enough to have a job with benefits or are under 26 and on their parents insurance through work.
I'm a dog groomer and the vast majority of private companies do not/can't afford to provide medical insurance for employees. If I were to suffer a severe dog bite or other injury I wouldn't be able to afford it. About a year ago I had to go to the ER for acute pancreatitis (most excruciating pain I've ever been in, comparable to appendicitis) and got billed 2 thousand dollars. I still haven't paid it off so it got sent to collections and I know it's destroying my credit. All I can say is I understand you not wanting to go to the hospital over this. An ER visit is not a luxury most of us can afford, especially without insurance.
I'm really glad your bite wasn't worse. You legitimately could have lost a finger or two or even your hand from infection. It could have spread to the bone. I'd say all in all you're pretty lucky.
Can I ask what you used to fix it up? I'm guessing super glue.
Anyways, I subbed and look forward to watching the rest of your videos. I wish you a steady and full recovery 🙏❤️
Dang man, hoping for the best possible recovery!
Thank you!
This medical insurance thing in the USA breaks my heart. You cannot mess with a deep bite especially from a meat eating monitor.
You must absolutely check for developing infection.
Many normal antibiotics will not help with deep infections.
Probably need something like Pristinamycine.
Do not wait to get treated if it doesn’t clear up.
Came for the click bait stayed for the Bimson
Oh I’m so pleased I live in the UK and we have the National Health Service, if we get hurt or bad, regardless of if you work or not or have insurance we get fixed up without the massive bill. The USA should have the same health care.
Things can always be worse. Remember Chandler’s little encounter a few months ago? Granted there’s a big size difference but you still need to guard against things like sepsis. Just keep the wound area clean (cant stress this enough) and it’ll heal.
Im not a Dr. but am a Paramedic and do have a decent amount of medical knowledge. Swelling will usually always cause numbness.. Wether he severed a nerve or not I guess remains to be seen. And I know surgery's and treatment can be extremely expensive especially if you don't have insurance.. But the thing you absolutely have to be careful of is a staff infection. Because that can cause sepsis and be fatal.. A trip to the ER just to be put on some kind of oral Antibiotic is definitely something I recommend.. I hope you get better man..
DAMN IT MAN!! Couldve been so much worse. Prayin for a full recovery
I hope some of your friends who are experienced in reptiles will give you some help without expecting to be paid. Helping one another when things aren't going well is what life is all about..hope your hand heals really fast.
It’s terrifying how so many bacterial strains are becoming so resistant to drugs. A resistant strain from a monitors mouth would have to be the very last thing I’d want under my skin.
Healthy respect and admission to behavior changes to avoid this in the future. I needed a few courses of antibiotics for a bite I received in May. I'm still rebuilding strength and feeling is not all there. Maybe 70% now compared to before injury. Through an urgent care clinic (3 visits total) in the US with insurance and prescriptions I was sitting around $350. I hope you won't have to suffer to much added out of pocket expense. Hope you get well soon!
Wow, sorry that happened. I’m sure that was a really scary experience. I think one thing a lot of people forget with pets is at the end of the day, they are still animals, even if you think you have them fairly tame.
I feel for you bro.I took a wicked bite from an adult water monitor earlier this year.I still don’t have any feeling in my thumb
If your hand is still swollen, reddened, any puss, any odor please go to a Dr. At a minimum you may need antibiotics
Animal bites can be a M.F.
Bro got you good, sending you all the healing vibes my guy.
A few years ago, I had a severe laceration on half of my middle finger as well, and the surface feeling never came back to the finger tip on the side that was cut. I can feel the meat below the surface, but the sense of touch in the skin there is gone. I've gotten used to it and it no longer hurts, but I know that shooting pain/numbness that you're talking about. I'm 5 years out now and it only does that shooting/buzzing/numbness when I bump or hit the scarred area.
Now we're numb finger buddy's!
After a week you could try one of those stress balls and start by just holding it. Then when that doesn’t hurt much start squeezing the stress ball. The worst thing you can do is not moving it. Your tendons and muscles will freeze. And if your close to a Canadian border come up here.
Good to see you again my man. Sorry that happened. That is nuts and wild to have had that happen to you, let alone from Bimpson
The bimps out of everyone is what hurts the most 😂
Keeping you in my prayers-i've gone blind in my right eye this past August-doctors don't know why!
This is the first video of yours I’m seeing and I’m sorry this is a crappy situation. I like your personality. So I’mma stay you’re cool.
I had a granade blast rip the skin off of three of my fingers in Afghanistan, it took ages for the skin to grow back. In 3 years or so you will most likely regain feel somewhat and full motion. The nerves re-rout with physioteraphy. That shooting pain when you stretch your arms or fingers takes 2 1/2 months to go away but it does.
😂 lol that sucks that happened to you, i hope u have a fast recovery. That last part about u trying to get the sausage was fucking funny…
Hi the most important thing with your injury is to keep it clean to prevent infection. Good luck!
I hope you feel better soon! Thats crazy, heading over to instagram now! I agree they probably wouldn't stitch it at the emergency room. I know for sure they don't stitch dog bites and I think this falls under the same reasoning.
Glad it seems to be doing good and thank goodness it’s not all infected 🙏😬 Love how self aware you are about what happened, that’s the only way we learn lol Also love the whole “thinking you were Kevin” comment lol 🤣😆
Sorry that happened to you man I know all about severe hand damage, looking at what happened to you I think you'll make a full recovery it will just take time. I'm with you though the American medical system is a joke, we have the best doctors and advanced medicine but the crooks that control it make it impossible for the actual working class to access. Hope you heal soon!
That sucks man. I hope you heal up soon. But in the meantime, the spray bottle problem, you should get a fertiliser spray bottle. I have 2 of them. They come with a shoulder strap and a long hose with a nozzle sprayer, so you can carry it on your shoulder and use your left hand to operate the sprayer
Add a flower pot dolly to the one or 2 gallon sprayer and pull it along. It is what I use. I tied the strap to the flower dolly so it does not tip as I use it.
Almost cut my finger off and I had cut through the tendon they are reattached and I also lost temporary use/feeling but it came back slowly and gets better and better each year. You will heal buddy lesson learned in the end they are wild and there accidents have big consequences stay safe buddy !! Great videos gained a new sub here. I only have chameleon but love all his cousins!!!
Wish you good healing. Always remember, always use the same Caution you would use when training a Rookie.
This is why I don’t keep monster reptiles. I have but stopped before anything happened. Now I don’t keep lizards over 24” or snakes over 6’
Be psyched this was not a croc monitor bro...
You gonna be aok.....
I believe your hand will heal close to 100% within 6 mos.....
You’ll have use of your middle finger also....
Don’t stress bro......
I gotten hit much worse am fully healed...
You’re a youngster.....
You’ll be alright brother......
What you're describing is exactly how it felt when I accidentally stabbed myself in the hand and cut a nerve. You'll be able to use the finger again just fine, it's stuff because of internal swelling, the feeling will never fully return though. Half of my index finger completely lost feeling after the injury, felt like it had been numbed where I could just feel pressure. Now that it's been more than 10 years feeling has mostly returned around the tip of my finger and the base but most of the middle I only have maybe 40%feeling if that. Also that part of my finger is super sensitive to cold and can't feel heat at all. I had nerve surgery, mostly because one of the nerve endings swelled up into a neuroma and as a result I was getting all sorts of weird phantom sensations in my finger. So they removed the swollen ending and did what they could to try and reattach the nerve. Wish you the best with your hand.
Keep trying to move it as much as you can, don’t let it just stiffen up.
Man, that is rough and I'm sorry to hear you're going through this. On the nerve damage front... about 30 years ago when I was a young man with an unhealthy knife fascination, I basically circumcised the tip of my left index finger. Thankfully there was enough left connected that the flesh didn't sluff off. It took about a year to regain feeling in my fingertip and it was messed up as hell. It never actually felt like the tip was touching anything, it was other parts of the finger that would either feel a pressure or a searing pain when the tip was touched. It took about 2-3 years before what I'm guessing is my brain was able to re-wire itself and connect the location with the sensations to a point where I could actually tell my fingertip was touching something. No medical intervention is going to make that any better, it's just a waste of money.
The only thing a medical professional can offer is antibiotics. If the wound has scabbed finally there's no need for stitches. My parents were the type that wouldn't take their kids to the doctor unless we were on the verge of death. When I was 16 I was playing with a machete and missed a swing that hit just below my knee and took a piece of bone out with it. I wish I'd had stitches for that one. Damn thing would bust open almost daily when I moved and it took about 3 months for the scab to finally get a good hold and stop popping open. Antibiotics and keeping it clean are all the docs can offer aside from stitches.
I got an Argentine B&W male tegu this summer. He's about a year old and around 3 feet currently and I worry about this a lot. He's very shy and tries to run off and hide any time I interact with him. It's a slow process. Twice now though he's been hungrier than I anticipated and launched himself through the air at my hand when I opened his enclosure. He's tagged me twice but they were glancing blows and he's still little. It does make me worry though if he hits full size and we're still not on touchy-feely terms. I have noticed since those two times that he has "modes" and I watch for those indicators. When he's in "food mode" there is nothing to be done to get him to snap out of flying, jump, and eat mode until he's gotten a few Reptilinks in him. Then he calms down and enters "normal mode". At that point he's gentle as a puppy taking food from my hand to the point he rather drop the link than risk getting too close to my fingers. But in food mode, forget about it. His brain isn't there, just his instinct. It's like when they enter explore mode. You can be walking right behind him and he's oblivious because he's exploring. The minute he switches modes and realizes I've been right behind him, it's fight or flight mode and he flees at warp speed. I'm coming to the conclusion that no matter how much trust we build up with them, if they're brain enters the wrong mode, we're dealing with a wild animal all over again.
I hope you both recover both physically for you and emotionally for both of you. Many kudos to your dedication. So many people instantly write off an animal after it has had a natural reaction and never analyze the situation and the part they played in it. You're an amazing keeper. Wishing you all the best man!
Shit dude get well soon! Your videos are dope and your Monitors are amazing!
That's a bummer man. I had a hand injury a few years back, severed a tendon with an angle grinder being too lax with it, bounced off a car fender and hit my hand, all kinds of fun, all my own fault. Even better, I'm a musician so I kinda need to deal with that, I pay through the ass for insurance which did come in handy. I had surgery and was back playing a few weeks later, did PT and all that while getting my playing back, essentially a total recovery, with a little loss of motion. I still can't properly flip people off, oh well. I think the total was about $20,000 all told (I paid my crazy high deductible of course). A stop in an urgent care for antibiotics (which are generally cheap, some are like 5 or 10 bucks) and a look see would only cost a couple hundred bucks at most (see an actual doctor, not a Physician's assistant or nurse practitioner). Infections can end you up in the forever box, just go to an urgent care with an actual doctor if it starts getting infected, it's nowhere near as expensive as an ER visit. A visit with a hand specialist would cost about the same, you could at least get some answers on how severe the damage is, if things are severed etc. I know you probably won't do it, but basic doc visits aren't crazy expensive. It's not like they can, or want, to force you into surgery or anything (especially if you're telling them you can't pay for it lol), any good doc will give you the best answers they can, and I guarantee they'll want to put you on some antibiotics as a precaution. Anyhoo, we sure can make some stupid mistakes, best of luck to you, honestly doesn't look that bad over youtube anyway considering how many holes the lovely beast put there lol, swelling is inevitable.
Welcome to America, where healthcare is a luxury. Just having a baby w/ natural birth and 1 night stay cost 36-40k. Man, I love it here.
You mentioned "clickbait". This would be the one time I wouldn't object to it. You were honest about needing the monetization. Good for you. Hope you get thousands of views.
I remember how big my hand got when I got bit by a stray cat, to this day it’s just a smidge bigger than my other hand. God that was so scary
✨wishing you a speedy recovery ✨
I had a female panoptes who i tong fed from hatchling to beginning of adult stage. She started to get real aggressive beyond what she already was like so i transitioned to only feeding from the same blue dog dish, placing food in enclosure before the lights come on for regular feeding. After awhile she became alot less aggressive towards me. Only if i force handled she would hiss or tail whip at me. Dish feeding became fun at times because i can tap on the dish, put it on the floor, and open the cage to let her voluntarily roam and search for it outside the enclosure. Mine seemed to save biting as a last resort, tail and intimidation was her main weapons of choice. Great video and good info in the comments as well. Sorry about the hand brotha, hope it continues to heal and i hope you gain full mobility again soon. These bites are no joke and why i dont let friends handle even the most docile of my collection. Only Odatria get handled by friends and their kids.
As someone who has lost fingers on both hands, and someone who has got bite but a rattler, you need to try and move your fingers , or else it will just get more difficult and painful to move your hand when the swelling goes down.
dropping a comment for support. that is gonna be a tough recovery bud. on the bright side neither of your fingers dropped, I had hand surgery 3 weeks ago because of severed tendons and my finger straight dropped and I couldn't flex up at all. you should bounce back.
Your a real one for this video I fucking loved it. Despite the severity of the video you still made me laugh good stuff im a new sub
Aw man years later I still can't feel the tip of my middle finger 😂
I hope you heal up well man. Also, as far as the TH-cam thing goes ,at least you still have tons more subscribers than me 😆 🤣
Good luck bro that really sucks . I was bit by a 4 ft monitor on the arm when I was kid working at a pet shop i worked at. luckily the bite wasn't too bad, it was just a bit of a nip but it did get infected. It sucked and took a long time to heal. But I was being stupid and i was really green and not used to working with them also the animals weren't really fed or treated very well there so I don't blame him. Anyways good luck with the wound and nerve damage bro. I really hope it all works out.
I had a Asian water monitor he was 6 feet 105 pounds I never feed him live food. I’ve been having monitor lizards for 38 years and the number one thing I’ve learned if you feed them live food there more aggressive by nature and the ones that I didn’t feed live food were more docile. But that being said they don’t act like dogs they are reptiles and you always got to be very careful.
The feeling of utter betrayal when your favorite takes a chunk out of you 😅
Just subbed gunna watch a load of your videos in the hope that it helps your stats abit ( I know it probably won't because I'm just one person). Really sucks man I feel for you.
This vid was recommended to me! Hi! :D Hope you feel better soon and get the full function of your fingers back.
My worst bite was from a Blue & Gold Macaw parrot, when i worked at Rain Forest cafe.. got bit at the WORST possible spot at the base of my finger nail, and THEN, a week later, my adult Corn snake bit & wrapped me…. nailing me RIGHT in the exact same spot/slice… (my fault, a feeding error from getting to complacent & lazy.)
It’s STILL f’efed up today, but everyone assumes it’s from my acrylic nails I wore for years.
Well, I know everybody thinks of Bearded Dragons as Powder Puffs, but they have a NASTY BITE, if they bite you on PURPOSE… YOU WILL BLEED.
(Some Beardies are just grumpy…. I’ve been surprised how much folks ignore this fact, & market them to kids.💀)
Hands are just full of bones and what not. I broke a pinky and it still hurts when it gets cold. Some crazy lady on a volunteer job smashed it with a table. Though I smashed my fingers into the ground and that hurt for months. Fortunately I can use both hands equally. So I did my school tests with my left hand. What sucks is there is little that can be done for pain. Pills can help a little with swelling but as for venoms or infections heck no fun dude. Hope none of the bones are infected.
That sucks bro but time is a healer and before you know it you'll be using the hand again. Speedy recovery buddy
Always have an assistant on hand, and never let your guard slip.
Complacency is the biggest cause of accidents. We've all been there I hope you'll be ok. Could have been so much worse
I am the same way. I like wild reptiles that are aggressive to see how long it takes to get them settle down. It took over 40yr to fill my right hand after getting bit by a rattle snake. Sorry that happened to you dude. I like your videos.
Big dawg...i watched some videos and it didn't look like thar monitor was ever very comfortable lol. I'm glad you're okay man. 👍
Glad your fingers are still in tact and hopefully you're on the mend. They certainly don't take prisoners. Mine only seem tame before they are fully warmed up in the morning. Once warm I'm always on my guard. I've had stitches due to being a bit complacent, but luckily nothing as bad as yours. Just subcribed👍🏻.
If you’re not going to go to the hospital, don’t over work it!
I’ve almost lost my thumb and index finger and the best advice I had from my surgeon and pt tech was dont over work it because your scared of losing movement!
I was petrified I’d lose my fingers and I kept moving them and working my pt movements but I got obsessed “to beat them from becoming useless on me” and I over did it so much I caused more damage!
So please if you don’t want to go to the hospital, let it rest, and don’t become like me and obsessed with moving your fingers to save motion, it’ll only cause more harm!!! And if after a few months they begin to “sag or fall down “ and “you can’t lift them individually “ tendons were damaged…
Glad you’re at least able to chuckle at it lol ❤🦎
My leopard gecko and I have a love hate relationship. He's a good boy who eats from my hands but he is easily spooked but he always forgives. you and bimpson will get through it
At least it makes a good story. Had a coworker that lost a thumb grabbing a tiny dead fish out of the tank without a net. He lost to a dead fish.
I got bit by a medium sized iguana that got spooked and it took a chunk out of the side of my finger and that is not even a predator. I can't imagine getting bit like you did.
dude, hang in there man. keep your head up, youll make it thru
For sure 🤟
First time here subscribed and liked looking forward to future videos sorry this happened to you
I have had an injury on my Index finger that was pretty similar. I lost the ability to bend it and didnt feel my fingertip. It took about 3 months of training until it would move again. You should avoid cold water too because that will hurt like a bitch because of the open nerve endings. I used a stressball to rehab my hand. I pretty much almost split my index finger in halve and now I "only" dont feel half of my fingertip and im really sensitive to temperature in that area. I think you can manage that.
I am unemployed right now and don't have insurance. I live in WA state. So I have to pray that I don't get sick or injured. I know how you feel. Also you could have lost a finger like Tyler did after his King cobra bite.
If a doctor said he had a stick of needle through my chest into my heart I would take it like a champ. I've been in and out of the hospital so much they could hit bone and I wouldn't even flinch. They purposely brought new people to practice drawing blood I was so popular. I told them I'd be a guinea pig for all the new people. I'd reassure them not to worry about hurting me so they wasn't worried to death that I was going to squirm in pain or be vocal about it.
The supplement called alpha lipoic acid is really beneficial for nerve health. It’s also recommended for people with neuropathy.
I got a bite like that way back in 1995 from a mangrove monitor! Hurt like hell!