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Majoringram tells us: I once had a wart on my hand and went to the doc to get it frozen. It hurt, lots. Instead of having to go back for more, I got my trusty rambo knife and cut the thing off. Three years later, and not even a scar!

(, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 12:08)
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I've always had a knack for patching myself up
Not being afraid of blood has a lot of advantages, especially with the (rather lunatic) company I keep.

Probably the most amusing bit of DIY surgery I did was while visiting a friend at college. I had been locked out of a building, and I wanted to be let in. I figured if I kicked the glass door, it would make enough noise that a person would help me out.

This was only partly successful. I made a loud noise, but I also broke straight through the glass door while wearing open topped sandals. The fact that my foot went through the glass rather than bouncing off it played merry hell with my balance, and a jagged part of the door essentially "shaved" a piece of my skin almost completely off. There was about a quarter sized flap of skin just sitting on the top of my foot (which was bleeding a lot).

Fortunately somebody DID let me in, and once I was back in my friend's room I asked for the following:
-Bandaids
-Rubbing alcohol
-Sharp scissors

I have a tendency to get infections if there's skin just sorta 'hanging on' to me. If a blister on me pops, I have to cut the blister skin off, sterilize the wound, and bandage it before it will heal. This was different only in that what I had to cut through was a thickish layer of living skin, not the thin material of blisters.

Everybody looked at me in horror when they saw me sterilize the scissors, and my friend hid. Cutting through your own flesh with rubbing alcohol tainted scissors is quite painful, but I gritted my teeth and got through it one snip at a time. Then, of course, I had to sterilize the wound. As I poured rubbing alcohol over it, I admit I lost my composure.

"SWEETMOTHEROFSODOMIZINGCOCKBURGLERSTHISFUCKINGHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURTS!!!!!"

That made everybody laugh. My foot healed fine (no pun intended), though my friend and I were stuck with a $200 fine for breaking the glass.
(, Wed 26 Jan 2011, 3:25, 2 replies)
Kicking windows to get attention.

(, Wed 26 Jan 2011, 9:02, closed)
^^^^^^^^^^
This
(, Wed 26 Jan 2011, 9:41, closed)

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