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   Llewellenbruce said, 7 months ago

   Just eat left-handed you big baby.
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   briatollah said, 7 months ago

   I’ve had a sliver of glass in my hand since 1981. When I tried to get it out it would go in deeper. I’d go after it every few days to no avail. Eventually I gave up and scar tissue fomed around it.
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   Linguist said, 7 months ago

   @briatollah

   Sort of like shrapnel. After 40+ years, every once in a while, a tiny piece will work its way out. Can never figure out why.
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   Nabuquduriuzhur said, 7 months ago

   re: Linguist

   What happened?

   What you said reminded me of a fellow in the signals corps who threw himself on a grenade and somehow survived. Grenade must have screwed up, but it still nearly did him in. He said that a piece would make its way to the surface every so often.
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   orinoco womble said, 7 months ago

   There’s an old remedy for something stuck under the skin that works, even though today people give me “that look.” Crack an egg (you won’t need the actual egg, eat it or whatever). Look at the edge of the shell and you will see a white, papery membrane that covers the inside of the shell. Carefully strip off a piece big enough to cover the area where your splinter or whatever is, lay it over the place, and put a bandaid over it. In 24 hrs, the membrane will dry, contracting and drawing the sliver to the surface.
   I’ve used this for wood slivers, fragments of sheet steel, glass etc. Works every time.
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   slug_queen said, 7 months ago

   @briatollah

   I still have bits of gravel along the side of my left hand and a couple up the forearm, from an accident in 1974. Only annoying if I cross my arms in front of me on a table, and then lean. Ow. Otherwise I don’t think about it. Huh. Been nearly 40 years. I have a 3/4" scar next to my left eye, from the same crash. But I wear glasses and it’s lost in the lines around the frame. (That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.)
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   Arianne said, 7 months ago

   @orinoco womble

   My husband has a metal sliver in his hand he hasn’t been able to get at for days. I’ll tell him to try this. Thanks for putting this out there!
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   newworldmozart said, 7 months ago

   back in 84 I got a piece of pencil lead in my arm. could never get it out. The spot turned bright blue but now its faded. Like the curved scar that ran down the back of my leg from barbed wire.
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   win said, 7 months ago

   @Linguist

   You, too?
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    TaxGeek said, 7 months ago

    @newworldmozart

    Same here only the lead in my hand is from ’73
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    costars said, 7 months ago

    Back in Fifth Grade, I caught a freshly sharpened pencil that rolled off my desk — and the spot from the pencil lead is still visible in my palm. That was back in 1953!
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    orinoco womble said, 7 months ago

    @Arianne

    If 24 hrs doesn’t do it, put a new piece of membrane on. 2 will definitely fetch it out. It creates a vaccuum as it dries, or so I was told.
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    mightaswellbe said, 7 months ago

    Hmmm, I have had to do surgery with an X-acto knife to remove a deep splinter, it had bent and wouldn’t come out on it’s own. Somehow it doesn’t hurt as much when I do the cutting as when someone else does it.
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    Linguist said, 7 months ago

    @win

    Yep ! But I was one of the lucky ones.
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    Vegas Viper said, 7 months ago

    It’s funny how a little sliver can bother you so much…
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