DIY disastersI just can't do power tools. They always fly out of control and end up embedded somewhere they shouldn't. I've no idea how I've still got all the appendages I was born with.
Add to that the fact that nothing ends up square, able to support weight or free of sticking-out sharp bits and you can see why I try to avoid DIY.
Tell us of your own DIY disasters.
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chthonic, Thu 3 Apr 2008, 17:19)
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Back when I was a nipperWell before I got a hearing aid, I used to have to get regular operations to stick grommets in my ear. Whenever one came out, I'd usually be rushed into surgery (within the week) to get a new one, meaning they didn't have to cut a new hole in my eardrum.
Now, the problem that caused my gradual deafness was glue ear when I was VERY young. This meant I had a lot of damage and a LOT of wax. It never seeped out (see: caramel) but it was fucking itchy.
It started to get so bad that I'd have to get my ear syringed. This was fucking horrible and painful and mentally traumatising.
It happened again a few months later. More itching. My mum said she'd ring ENT the next day.
'Fuck this' thought I. It hurts. So I got a cotton bud and gave it a good going. This didn't work, so I decided to get the wax out with tweezers.
I found a wax ball and pulled it out. It fucking hurt, but not as much as syringing.
I went to check out my lovely prize, but it was oddly blue. And had a weird shape, kind of like an air gun bullet. I don't remember wax being...OH FUCK!
I was so scared to tell my mum that I kept quiet about it, going deafer and deafer for weeks until she drags me off to ENT. There, they hum and har, and say it must have fallen out, though VERY prematurely. It had also healed, so I had to get a new incision. OUCH! And it lasted all of a week.
After that, I got a hearing aid. To this day I wonder whether it was a good or bad thing that I prematurely got a hearing aid, due to a traumatic operation involving drilling my skull and putting an implant in it being given when I was very young.
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Methylene Blue - electrohead, Mon 7 Apr 2008, 19:48,
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Glue earMy son, Destructo-Boy had the same thing - big rubbery plug behind his eardrum. Because I knew itchiness, mondowax and frequent surgery happens with the grommets (we call 'em tubes, here) I refused.
We just went with the deafness and learned sign.
When he was bigger, I took him to specialist who removed the plug from the inside: went through his mouth and up his Eustachian tube and sucked it out with a little rubber hose. Lots of black stinky goo accompanying.
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