An infection in the finger can quickly spread to the hand. īefore any recommendations are made, if your finger appears infected â€” it is imperative that you be seen at the er or an acute care clinic. If the staple is still embedded in your finger, recommend that you go to the emergency room to have it removed. Do not know if this was a normal staple used for paper or if it was one of the larger staples used for working with heavy materials. What do you think? What's something you've encountered that really shows the cultural differences between Vietnam and wherever you're from.Hello. I guess things are done differently here blah blah blah I'm constantly being reminded that my way is not always the right way but in this case I'm being left thinking 'surely' After only five or so minutes the blood had actually started to come through the tape because, well, nothing was soaking it up! I can't possibly be wrong in saying that it would've been better to secure a tissue at least to the area. Non-absorbent, strong, going-to-hurt-when-it-gets-pulled-off, medical tape. She took the tissue off and wrapped some medical tape around it. That's when the mum came in, started saying 'No, don't do that!' to me in an annoyed 'this girl can't do anything' voice. I grabbed a tissue, and wrapped it around his finger and squeezed it tightly (just as I had always been told and had always done) while comforting him.

So since it was yanked out and the mum had left, it has started to trickle blood out of the three punctures two at the entry point and one where it came out the other side) and he was still just sitting there with the same expression (although at this point he looked like he was about to pass out at any moment) I know they have different relationships with their parents here but surely they would prefer their own mother to be there and help them out. If this happened to me, and my mum was just a calls away, I would be staying there with the stapler in my finger until my own mum came to take it out. She then proceeds to yank it out and slap him on the arm with a 'All good' kinda demeanor. She is completely unphased, and simply says 'No problem'. One of the other students' mums came running in and asked him in Vietnamese *I'd like to point out that at this stage the student was still just sitting there staring at his finger* The other students started to freak out and were yelling for someone. I instantly started to feel sick and as I yelled at one other student not to pull it out, I grabbed my phone so that he could call his mum who was somewhere nearby. Then from the top view you could see the tip just poking out the other side near his fingernail. Like if you hold your finger horizontal to your face, see the tip? All you could see there was the silver line of the staple.

He had been trying to pick up (I think) the stapler at his feet and had somehow completely stapled his finger horizontally. I came over to have a closer look and that's when I noticed it. He started to look a little green and I noticed his eyes had this terrified sickening look in them. 'Oh no problem, give it here' I held out my hand I thought that he had found some glass on the ground and had pressed his finger to it to pick it up and was just simply giving it to me. I could see something shining on his finger and from a distance it looked like some glass. 'Yes, what is it?' I replied, without even looking up from my computer.

'Uhhh, teacher.?' He sounded as if nothing was the matter. One student was playing around under his seat and suddenly he very calmly raised his hand They had been working so well and quietly and I was working away on a report for them on my computer. The students were drawing themselves as Egyptian pharaohs and including what they would have buried in the tomb with them. Meaning there was no parent or other adult around. They are pretty advanced so I don't need an assistant to translate. I'm going to try my best to talk about it without getting angry and offending the culture of this country I have adopted as my own. The way it was handled was oh-so-much different to the way it would've been handled anywhere I've ever seen. Today I was at work and a student stapled his finger.

I stapled my finger