Ouch!A friend was once given a biopsy by a sleep-deprived junior doctor.
They needed a sample of his colon, so inserted the long bendy jaws-on-the-end thingy, located the suspect area and... he shot through the ceiling. Doctor had forgotten to administer any anaesthetic.
What was your ouchiest moment?
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chthonic, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 17:29)
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Do not blow into the BBQ too closelyTrying to breath some life into a past its prime barbeque a couple of summers ago. I bent down close to the coals and blew vigourously onto them to warm things up. One of the buggers 'pops' and a small bit of white hot charcoal ricochets off of my eyeball. To this day I still swear there was a faint hiss as it vapourized a small area of my moist cornea.
I now have a very useful 'reading dot' in my left eye which I can only assume is a small bit of carbon lodged in my eyeball. I often use it when reading to keep my place on a line, shame I don't do karaoke really.
I obviously have a certain attraction to carbon, as I also have a pencil lead buried deep in the middle of my right palm. My reminder from a junior school attempt to defend myself from a schoolmate with a freshly sharpened pencil. Still visible after over 30 years...
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 23:51, 1 reply)
Ah, a fellow collector of carbon!I've got a piece of coal in my hand from when I was 8, still visible. I also managed to get a hefty shard of rock deep into my hand (the instructions were: "Don't hit these rocks").
I realised it has an especially high magnetite content, but not until after it had healed over. Now I can hang NIB magnets off it for a great pary trick. Recently got a piece of glass in a finger too, now I'm a walking rock collection.
(, Sat 31 Jul 2010, 12:16, closed)
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