ONLY a four inch incision? Shucks, I've dug out splinters that left a bigger incision than that! I remember the time I got an ironwood 12x12 stuck in my right hand. I had to use a chainsaw to cut that splinter out, and then I sewed it up with some used line I salvaged from an old hawser using a fishhook for a needle. I sterilized the wound with an acetylene torch so I wouldn't get blood poisoning before I sewed it up, of course. Healed up just fine.

You will too.