Missing body partsNow there are some bits of your body you don't mind losing - my dad's just got rid of a kidney stone, my own tonsils once tried to asphyxiate me, and nobody wants warts.
Other bits are more useful - a family friend recently lost an arm... which would be OK if his job wasn't managing dis-armament talks.
What have you lost, and where did you leave it?
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chthonic, Thu 1 Jun 2006, 18:22)
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My girlfriendgrew up in Mexico where it seems they are quite relaxed about young children playing with sharp things.
When she was about 4 she was playing with a machete with her cousin, who swung it and sliced her open just below the ear.
A few years later, helping an aunt grind cinnamon she got her finger caught in the mill. The aunt was an amateur nurse and cleaned it up a bit. Now well enough it seems as when her Mum checked it a few days later the finger had turned black. Apparently it was verging on gangrenous and almost had to be amputated.
Finally, aged 14, she decided she wanted to open a coconut so, naturally, went and got her uncle's machete. Whack! End of her thumb left dangling.
How she still has a full complement of digits I don't know.
(, Fri 2 Jun 2006, 13:25, closed)
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