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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Love-making fingerNot me, but 'tis an interesting story.
Worked on a banana farm during a trip to Oz last year. Being a woman, I was on the conveyor belt sorting stuff.
On my first day, a french guy ran in from working outside on the fields, screaming the place down. He'd just had most of his finger cut off by a machete. Not far behind was a co- worker carrying the remains of his finger, which had just been left lying around in a pile of bananas.
It took over half an hour for the ambulance to come to his aid - after 20 mins of copious blood loss and hysterical screaming, I think he was near to passing out.
Apparently, upon arrival, since the cut was right through the knuckle, the ambulance staff wanted to cut off what little remained. 'Sacre Bleu !' I like to imagine the frenchie would have said. He worked in IT so I'm sure a lack of fingers wouldn't be ideal. Plus - as I was reliably informed by male farm workers -it was the'love making finger'and the loss of this would have been a terrible fate for any man, let alone a french one. So after a bit of screaming, he got taken 2 hours away to a decent hospital where they could be bothered to do their job properly.
In addition I nearly bit my tongue off when I was about 7. Instead of stitching it up I got sent home, and I had to drink soup through a straw for about 2 weeks.
(, Fri 2 Jun 2006, 12:44, Reply)
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