Splinter extraction.
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Splinter extraction.
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I refuse to press the "Thanks" button for this.
Amazing! I once had a splinter crossways in my finger, just under the bone. ER doctor worked for 15 minutes and couldn't find it and then told me that it will work it's way out in 6 months. I could feel in for all that time and in 6 months exactly, a pimple formed and when I picked it, out popped a 1/2" splinter.
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My wife got poked and 9 months later I had a son
Relative of Wolverine?
I showed this to my wifey and she emphatically told me to NEVER show her anything like this again. I thought it was an excellent example of how the body takes care of getting rid of foreign bodies.
The object in the video looks more like a thorn than a splinterQuote:
Originally Posted by Jon
While clearing brush on our property it is not uncommon to have a long thorn puncture through heavy gloves. I carry a first aid kit on the carry all for just such occasions., consisting of Hydrogen peroxide , Betadine, lidocaine, triple antibiotic salve, liquid Benadryl 'immediately drink a whole bottle incase of rattle snake bite' a roll of 4"Corflex tape, gauze pads surgical tape and of course band-aids, the kit includes these plus many other items
I read in "Boy's Life" magazine how to prepare to collect quills from a porcupine by stuffing a cloth bag full of rags, and attaching same to a pole. I was so armed on a trip through the Bad Lands of S.D., as a young lad. Mom was driving along the highway when I spotted a roadkill critter. I yelled for her to stop, and jumped out, grabbed the quill-collector from the car's trunk, and proceeded to fill the bag with quills after pummeling the beast several times. When we returned home I removed the quills from the bag on the kitchen table, and placed the best ones into a box. I didn't do a very good job cleaning up after myself, so mom gathered the culls with her hands, and into the trash they went. Weeks later, she showed me the result of her carelessness. She had gotten impaled by one of the quills, which had worked its way through her hand from palm to back.
I bet it didn't take long to feel that.
A rare splinter to be so kind, smooth and tapered; certainly a thorn. Our bet is black or honey locust tree.
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.
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.
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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.
Extracting a piece of metal from a man's forehead with a magnet.
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Looks like he lost the BB gun duel.
FWIW, many, many years ago I had a metal sliver removed from my right eye by a doctor.
Looks like a street magician trick to me.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by katy
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.
