So the little one was resorting to overtime..? Nao let his eyes glide once more towards the clock on the wall.
"The original time for the tutor is already done... I have about 45 more minutes before I have to get going towards my jobs... So guess we could do overtime." He would say and leave his bag packed as he wouldn't be needing it anymore.
"So this part of the tutor I had planned was band-aid-101. This box is full of surprises, but first, let me show you how the regular bandaids look like, you probably have seen them anywhere and everywhere for sale. They are great and sometimes you can find even with anti-disinfectant already on the cotton part..." He would show them and pass the three most common versions towards Hakuren.
"Now what if I were to say, that people have been using them wrong entirely for so long..? How would you place that one in on a finger knuckle? Most people would paste it as it is right?" He would wait on the answer of the other.
"Yet moving after... would make it difficult.." He would show it by sticking one on his own finger.
"Yet I can use the same bandaid... more efficiently for myself... if I were to cut it right... You hear me... cut..." He would grab out a scissor out of the box and make a simple snip in the plaster. In the middle till the cotton part.
"Now I have basically 4 sticky parts..." He would bandage himself again, but this time he left the inside of his finger free. Leaving there to be a lot more room while the knuckle was still band-aided by the cotton part.
"See..? Now I don't need to exert as much pressure as before to make the same movement. If you want to, you can do the same to see and feel the difference..." He would wait a moment before he would start part two of this practical.
"Now I will teach you the best way to use band-aids on different parts of the bodies... As we shinobi often use our hands, wound our hands but don't use our chakra to fix them.. or rather we shouldn't waste chakra to fix them..." He would sigh as he had so many cases where people just used their chakra on so many little things...
"Let's start with the fundamentals on band-aid use... in the most ideal situation, we clean the wound and around the wound clean with clean water. After that, we use disinfectant around the wound, never in... In this meanwhile, you never touched the wound. Now you snip the band-aid to the way you want it. And never exert pressure when placing a band-aid... as you can actually make your blood flow difficult... If the band-aid got dirty, always replace it with a fresh one, never leave it on longer than a day... If you or anyone has trouble with removing a bandaid... Water, baby- or salad-oil let the bandaid go easier... Now for the sticky part... either gasoline or rubbing alcohol... I just let it tear over time as I don't want my hands to smell of gasoline..." He would stick out his tongue a little by that mention.
"So... over the fingertips band-aids." Nao started to pack another item from the bag, a big roll of bandaid. It was just one long piece of it and he would place one in front of Hakuren and one for himself along with a new scissor.
"So we start with a half finger length of bandaid... as you see this is straight, this will 'never sit right' so we are going to make two small incisions on each side... It's like two pyramids that you remove... first two incisions are in the middle of the bandaid... then you do that again in that middle-middle part. Should be looking something like this..." And he showed his version of it towards the other.
"Now if you were to plaster a tip, this is easily done by placing the big part first, the middle section around the tip, the last bit back around the finger. This way you also closed off the tip better, making sure you cannot keep hanging behind something either." He would display it on his own finger.
"To get a bandaid between the fingers, for example catching a kunai wrong or having a simple stab there... It is easily solvable." He would cut a new piece from the long strip.
"This is... about two centimeters." He showed the length towards Hakuren as he then would continue.
"All you two... is cut half a circle out of it, leaving the cotton partially intact.' He would then display it again as how he had done it.
"This way, you can the full stick and you won't have the trouble of misplacing it. Have better movement and don't get into those awkward positions with them..' He then placed this band-aid too between his fingers, it sat right instead of folded double what otherwise would have happened.
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We already had covered the finger joint one.. but let's go over it again, this time with the same technique we used earlier on the finger.." Taking a smaller strip than the fingertip one he would cut out two triangles again in the middle.
"Like this, now it doesn't matter how you place this one, above or under the finger joint, it will leave you having a clear movement, even more than the one before I showed. For the knuckle it is similar... You just leave a longer piece on the bottom. Depending on where the wound is, you have to improvise otherwise." He would display it if the wound was a long one on the finger or a short one near the knuckle. The long wound would result in the hand the finger bandaged and the part of the back of the hand too, but with a triangle cut out once more. With the small one, it would just cover the finger a little and then over the knuckle towards the back of the hand.
"The thumb joint works the same." He would cut a bandaid out the way he wanted before showing it towards the young student.
"Now this might needs to get some used to, also with placing it down as you also have the palm of your hand.. That will always let go faster than the rest, The main reason for that is because that part of the skin is one that you sweat out. This moist makes sure that the plaster has no 'footing' so to say. This is why we have 3 different anchor points. Around the thumb and the back of that person's hand." once more he displays it on his hand, now his hand was getting quite full of all the band-aids, but Nao was still used to this. Back in his own medical training he had cut a lot in his own hands or had gotten blisters, burns, and what not you could name.
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There is even an easier method to bandaid your nose in case you break it or get scratched there or whatever reason... Maybe an excuse for puberty." He would start and cut apart from the roll again. A square this time.
"Now all you need to do.. for a nose band-aid... Is to cut the sides from one corner to the other against the cotton part... You can see it as a triangle without the top part..." He would cut it and show it, this one he did not actually place by himself but did showcase how it would sit with and without the cut corner.
"As your nose is an odd shape, the band-aid has to be one too...' He would then snip out a small one.
"If you really want to do it the old fashioned way with the old school band-aids... Always twist it around your finger." He would make a spin motion with his finger.
'Never coil around it as I explained earlier... It can stop the blood from flowing."
"Now all these different kinds of making bandaids, placing them and all... As it works for your hand, it also works for your feet and its toes." He would smirk at that as he crossed his arms and nodded once maybe twice.
"This is all that I have to teach for today. I do hope you found it useful." He would say and look towards the other.
"The rest of the bandaid you can keep though." He had more than enough and he even still had spare for back in the cabins at the Byoin.
"If... and only IF you ever really have coil around something... Then make sure it is loose around the wound, never tight or placed with pressure... that is the sole tip I am giving with coiling bandaids..." He honestly disliked it and knew many people did it... There was a reason that their fingers would pulsate after a short while, or that their tip was getting red and puffy... If only those people knew they were often doing it wrong.
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