Splinter extraction - GIF

[NortonDommi]

I fell out of a tree head first into a huge Prickly Pear when I was about 7 or 8 and got multiple thorns in me. Some 30 years later I got a sore toe and about a week later a tiny lump developed and when I popped it a thorn about that size came out.
The Human body is an amazing thing.

[metric_taper]

I was installing hardwood flooring in my wood shop, last year. This was #4 or worse oak quality. 5" wide. I brushed my left hand along the edge while reaching for another piece, and a sliver from the edge was driven deep into the outside palm of my left hand. I could not remove the piece, and suffered pain for over a month, I finally got the Exacto knife out to really cut deep and get to it. Once the surface was opened, pushing on the area popped the sliver out.

[jackhoying]

Our daughter was in a car accident when she was 17 years old. Mainly, she had a broken jaw and lots of small pieces of tempered glass bits under the skin. When she was trying on her heavy wedding dress at age 22, she had a shoulder strap bothering skin. She picked around a bit and out came another piece of glass.

[Jon]

Extracting a piece of metal from a man's forehead with a magnet.

[IAMSatisfied]

Looks like he lost the BB gun duel.

[katy]

FWIW, many, many years ago I had a metal sliver removed from my right eye by a doctor.

[Hoosiersmoker]

Looks like a street magician trick to me.

[Gadgeteer]

FWIW, many, many years ago I had a metal sliver removed from my right eye by a doctor.

I removed all kinds of stuff from eyes. One fellow worked at a hog processing facility on the edge of town. He came to my office, complaining of eye discomfort. I used my stereo microscope to evaluate his problem, and found a tiny hog hair that was stabbed perpendicular into his cornea.

On another occasion I got a call from an excited mother of a high school son. She explained that he had been partying in the woods the night before, and had injured an eye. When the kid came in he explained that he had been running through the woods in the dark without a flashlight, and got stabbed in the eye by a small branch. He told me he was in no pain. Microscope revealed that the small branch had punctured through the entirety of his cornea, but hadn't gone far enough toward the middle of the sphere to touch the lens. The cornea had already sealed itself, and wasn't leaking any fluid... no pain due to the ripping of corneal nerves when punture broke through. If the branch had punctured a few millimeters more, and contacted the lens , it would have resulted in causing the lens to turn into a cataract. The cornea healed without significant scarring. Lucky kid.