What foreign object...
...have doctors had to remove from your body? And why did you put it there?
For me, it was a bit of paper towel from my ear. They told me I would get fewer earaches if I dried my ears after swimming......
I had to have my permanent front tooth removed from my skull, in 2nd grade.
I put it there because I was playing on the playground, and being a smartass, and as I ran away I tripped and my tooth went into my head.
I don't ever remember putting anything in my ear or nose but I do remember my brother telling me it was good to eat rocks and so I found a really tiny one (might have been hard dirt, but it felt rockish) and tried to chew it. I was probably 3 or 4.
:)
Can't say I ever had such an experience of the removal of a FB, butt we did remove a nightstick from some guys ass once. Oh yea, he put it there himself. And we removed a wine bottle from some womans ass as well, her boyfriend put it there. Both had to go to surgery to have them removed.
The lesson:
Be careful what you put up your ass folks. Oh, and wear clean underware in case you ever have to go to the hospital. :D
The doc had to remove one of those plastic-capsule silica desiccant thingies from my father's throat.. He took that instead of the two ibuprofen he had in his other hand, and it got stuck in his esophagus.
He was fine. Embarrassed, but fine.
A tiny fragment of metal ... from the cornea of my left eye.
Wear safety goggles when drilling, kids. :smack:
a .22 mag bullet , well the seven pieces it split in to when I shot it thru mu thigh
A 2 inch nettle from this weird stingie grass in outback Australia.
I've got no feeling under my right knee from when I had a knee reconstruction and the nettle thingie must of imbedded there on a hunting trip with my ex ex ex boyfriend. Instead of it get nasty and getting pushed out, it worked its way inwards and went really really gross. Now I have another scar from where they had to extract it.
We need a "show us your scars" thread.
Well, zipster, that was just a bad move on your part...or did someone else shoot you? :)
Big Bag of Cheap weed , six pac of Bud Tall boys , .22 mag derringer , need I say More ??
"Hold my beer and watch this!"
my Dr a Fellow Former Marine Closed the door and gave me WHAT FOR !!!!
And then said " Well at least you were a good shot , a few Inches difference and you could have bled Out !!"
my new brother in law is an EMT. he says that they always say, " I fell on it"
(laughing at Zippy)
I can't recall anything taken out, unless you count the 0 gauge glass tunnels in my labia, which my surgeon handed to my daughter after he was done.
But they kinda fell out.
A disgusting ganglion cyst on the inside of my right wrist. It completely squicked me out. Couldn't stand to look at it, touch it, think about it....GAH!@! I'm all squirmy right now typing about it.
Anyway, the doc drained it and it returned within a few hours. Finally had it removed. The doc let me look at it in situ after they'd sliced my wrist open.
[FONT="Times New Roman"][SIZE="7"]ARRAGGHGHH! [/SIZE][/FONT]
Thirty years later and I still CANNOT get that image out of my head.
should have just slammed a book onto it.
do my 2 children through c sections count? Sometimes my 13 yr old seems like a foreign object these days
I had to have my permanent front tooth removed from my skull, in 2nd grade.
I put it there because I was playing on the playground, and being a smartass, and as I ran away I tripped and my tooth went into my head.
I don't ever remember putting anything in my ear or nose but I do remember my brother telling me it was good to eat rocks and so I found a really tiny one (might have been hard dirt, but it felt rockish) and tried to chew it. I was probably 3 or 4.
:)
I can't imagine how a tooth can go all the way into the skull!!??!! Must've been a very painful fall, btw. :yelsick:
Well, I said skull but I guess I meant "face." lol
It was shoved up behind my nose...very hard fall indeed. The other front tooth, though root-canaled, had a slow and painful death. It just started to hurt one day, about a year later, and they thought it was dead but it hadn't been, and they root-canaled it and it still didn't die.
I finally got caps/bridges when I was 18 and my head was fully grown. Before that, it was a series of "flippers" and teeth attached to my braces, made of plastic.
Good times. :)
But it made me very brave at the dentist, and the years and years of orthodontists. "You have a small cavity, do you want novocane?" Uh, nah...I can probably take it.
A disgusting ganglion cyst on the inside of my right wrist. It completely squicked me out. Couldn't stand to look at it, touch it, think about it....GAH!@! I'm all squirmy right now typing about it.
I had one on my left wrist that was huge. I was schedule to have it removed, but after I broke my watch band, the damn thing went away within a month.
I have one of those! The doctor tried to drain it, but the fluid is too thick. Contemplating the surgery.
when i was in 3rd grade, I got frustrated with a math problem, and spazzed. I went to jam my pencil point into my desk to destroy it, but I had the pencil backwards, and the point drove into my hand right in a crease(of the
head line) and broke off. it's still in there.
In 2nd grade, I had someone hold their pencil upwards on my seat just as I was sitting down. I had lead in my butt-cheek. I think was too embarrassed to go to the nurse, my teacher just let my go to the bathroom and make sure I got the point out. It wasn't too bad I guess, but that is the only foreign object I can remember.
No doctor, but I had a two or three inch sliver of glass in the pad of my foot. A quarter inch or so was still on the outside, so I was able to carefully pull it back out. It got infected later and hurt like an SOB. I had no insurance and no money, so I never went to a doctor. Soaking in hot water all day let the pus find a way out. I cringe just thinking about that.
A cow-orker got a splinter of fiber optic embedded in his eyeball... Had to go to the ER for that one.
I've had fiber sticks (mostly in my fingers) so many times, I've lost track. Polaroid film & tweezers are your friends.
when i was in 3rd grade, I got frustrated with a math problem, and spazzed. I went to jam my pencil point into my desk to destroy it, but I had the pencil backwards, and the point drove into my hand right in a crease(of the head line) and broke off. it's still in there.
technicaly then that doesn't count as it wasn't removed :p
I have a balck mole on my arm which I am convinced is a piece of grit from A fall off my bike when I was a kid.
Some small ball up my nose when I was small, the nieghbour was a nurse who fished it out, does that still make the cut since whe wasn't a doctor:neutral:
I had several small bits of black plastic from the handle of my ski pole lodged in my lip from a bad fall. They worked there way back out over the next few years...
Polaroid film & tweezers are your friends.
? Polaroid film?
Any polarizing filter/film. It helps differentiate the shiny glass from the shiny wet, bloody tissue surrounding it, as they have different polarization reflection characteristics.
Any polarizing filter/film. It helps differentiate the shiny glass from the shiny wet, bloody tissue surrounding it, as they have different polarization reflection characteristics.
Why I love browsing at teh Cellar!
technicaly then that doesn't count as it wasn't removed :p
I have a balck mole on my arm which I am convinced is a piece of grit from A fall off my bike when I was a kid.
Some small ball up my nose when I was small, the nieghbour was a nurse who fished it out, does that still make the cut since whe wasn't a doctor:neutral:
What about that splinter down your thumbnail?
My next door neighbor in the UK was an ER doctor. Apparently it's pretty dangerous to walk around holding carrots -the possibility of falling and impaling oneself it higher than you might imagine! :eek:
And a nurse told of a group of guys who shoved unlikely items up their arses just to see the expressions on the faces of the ER staff. One strike against the NHS methinks. The winner was a guy with an entire rolling pin up there. Apparently he was very proud of himself and said he'd had to work up to it :eek:
Pie, you are such a supergeek.
Zippy, you're just a bloody legend.
And, and, guess what? They pay me for it! :yelgreedy
Pie, you are such a supergeek.
And geeky is the new sexy.
But what are all the TV shows going to do with all the old sexy? If they're just going to throw it out, I'll take some, I don't mind wearing last season's fashions.
I think the old sexy has gotten trashy. I think it has to cure quite a while before it becomes retro sexy.
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