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?
( , Thu 29 Jul 2010, 17:29)
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?
( , Thu 29 Jul 2010, 17:29)
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There are a few to remember
Like the time I was ice skating at a school event and one of the guys in the year above me came up behind me and put his hands on my shoulders, next thing I know he slips backwards and his feet fly forwards straight into my butt. More specifically the front of the blade on the ice skate hits my tail bone. I was rolling around on the ice crying in front of my whole school after that. I'm convinced I can still feel a chip on it.
Then there is the time I decided to jump down some stairs at uni. There wasn't too many steps, about 10 or 12, but what made it more difficult was that the ceiling was too low to get the right hight to clear the steps, and then at the bottom there was about 1m to the wall, which also had an iron radiator on it. So in order to complete said jump you had to get a good run up, check, tuck into a ball to avoid hitting your head, check, then untuck at the right time to prepare for landing. I untucked a little too early and tried to twist my foot to avoid hitting the bottom step, unfortunately the meant that I hit the bottom step with my ankle twisted and my full body weight on it. Somehow I managed to avoid hitting my face on the radiator. I was able to hobble down to my room to watch neighbours and hollyoaks, after that it was still killing despite having ice on for the whole time. I went to the hospital fearing I had broken my ankle, fortunately it was just a sprain. I also learnt after that to read direction on medicine before taking it, doctor gave me ibuprofen and I took 2 every 6 hours. Unfortunately it was double strength and the instructions said take 1 every 6 hours. I wondered why I was able to dance around the following night, only for the pain to come back twice as bad the next morning.
But the ouchiest moment is also the most disturbing/disgusting. I had a pimple on my nose. This was no ordinary zit, I couldn't tell where the center of it was and if it was going to come on the inside or the outside. It was very sensitive to touch so squeezing was out of the question, I decided to give it time to make it easier. Over the next few days I waited. This thing was so sore, when I want to bed at night I could feel it pulsing. Every time my heart beat it would cause unbelievable pain in my nose. I wanted my heart to stop beating so I could go to sleep. I would get up and try to squeeze the thing but it was so painful I couldn't do it. And although it had swelled to the size of a pea there was still no yellow blast zone of a pimple. After about a week of agony I decided I had to work through the pain to get rid of this thing. I had a break through when I was able to scratch off the top layer of skin and I just set about squeezing it hoping something would come out. After a few seconds Mt Pain erupted and some yellow puss came out, followed by something black that stuck out of my nose. Relieved that I had finally got something out I wiped away the tears that were streaming down my face (I was 24 at this time) and cleared my eyes so I could see what the black thing was. I got tweezers and slowly pulled out a long black nose hair from the outside of my nose. Turns out the pimple was actually a nose hair that decided that it didn't want to come out inside my nose where all the snot is, it wanted the nice clean fresh air on the outside. So it grew through the cartilage on my nose and appeared out the other side. It was like having my nose pierced over a week, instead of a few milliseconds. Even now I get paranoid anytime I feel a pain in my nose that it might be another ingrowing nose hair.
( , Sat 31 Jul 2010, 14:00, Reply)
Like the time I was ice skating at a school event and one of the guys in the year above me came up behind me and put his hands on my shoulders, next thing I know he slips backwards and his feet fly forwards straight into my butt. More specifically the front of the blade on the ice skate hits my tail bone. I was rolling around on the ice crying in front of my whole school after that. I'm convinced I can still feel a chip on it.
Then there is the time I decided to jump down some stairs at uni. There wasn't too many steps, about 10 or 12, but what made it more difficult was that the ceiling was too low to get the right hight to clear the steps, and then at the bottom there was about 1m to the wall, which also had an iron radiator on it. So in order to complete said jump you had to get a good run up, check, tuck into a ball to avoid hitting your head, check, then untuck at the right time to prepare for landing. I untucked a little too early and tried to twist my foot to avoid hitting the bottom step, unfortunately the meant that I hit the bottom step with my ankle twisted and my full body weight on it. Somehow I managed to avoid hitting my face on the radiator. I was able to hobble down to my room to watch neighbours and hollyoaks, after that it was still killing despite having ice on for the whole time. I went to the hospital fearing I had broken my ankle, fortunately it was just a sprain. I also learnt after that to read direction on medicine before taking it, doctor gave me ibuprofen and I took 2 every 6 hours. Unfortunately it was double strength and the instructions said take 1 every 6 hours. I wondered why I was able to dance around the following night, only for the pain to come back twice as bad the next morning.
But the ouchiest moment is also the most disturbing/disgusting. I had a pimple on my nose. This was no ordinary zit, I couldn't tell where the center of it was and if it was going to come on the inside or the outside. It was very sensitive to touch so squeezing was out of the question, I decided to give it time to make it easier. Over the next few days I waited. This thing was so sore, when I want to bed at night I could feel it pulsing. Every time my heart beat it would cause unbelievable pain in my nose. I wanted my heart to stop beating so I could go to sleep. I would get up and try to squeeze the thing but it was so painful I couldn't do it. And although it had swelled to the size of a pea there was still no yellow blast zone of a pimple. After about a week of agony I decided I had to work through the pain to get rid of this thing. I had a break through when I was able to scratch off the top layer of skin and I just set about squeezing it hoping something would come out. After a few seconds Mt Pain erupted and some yellow puss came out, followed by something black that stuck out of my nose. Relieved that I had finally got something out I wiped away the tears that were streaming down my face (I was 24 at this time) and cleared my eyes so I could see what the black thing was. I got tweezers and slowly pulled out a long black nose hair from the outside of my nose. Turns out the pimple was actually a nose hair that decided that it didn't want to come out inside my nose where all the snot is, it wanted the nice clean fresh air on the outside. So it grew through the cartilage on my nose and appeared out the other side. It was like having my nose pierced over a week, instead of a few milliseconds. Even now I get paranoid anytime I feel a pain in my nose that it might be another ingrowing nose hair.
( , Sat 31 Jul 2010, 14:00, Reply)
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