It does so much but so little The only reason we are at the top of the food chain is because we can use tools We are slow runners Weak And our bite force is low Also we are bipeds Being a biped is not great It slows us down puts more stress on our bones ligaments tendons and cartilage causing us to be more likely to damage those areas We originally evolved to he quadrapedals so our tendons are not as strong as they need to be to allow for quick change in direction that is why athletes often tear their ACL
I once had a splinter like that. Instead of going to doctors/hospital to ret it removed, my parents decided to let me have my own way (I was terrified of needles as a kid. Massive tantrum throwing idiot.) it took about a month for my body to work it out enough for me to be able to dig out. The wood was so soft that tweeezers would crumble it when I tried to dig it out before that. Parents, take your kids to hospital/doctors. Tantrums be damned.
Next time, slice off a piece of potato and tape it over the spot with surgical tape or a bandage. The starch in the potato helps bring the splinter to the surface
When I was a kid I got a huge chunk of wood in the bottom of my foot. It ran from the pad under my toes almost to my heel. But hospitals were really not an option for our family. My mom had me lay on my belly and had my brothers sit on my back and hold my legs down. Then she pulled that thing out with pliers. Probably another hours worth of removing little bits out. It was brutal, for sure. But man, my mom could nurse us back to health better than any doctor could dream of.
I had a bicycle accident years ago. Landed on the palms of my hands. Doctor at the time inspected me cause something felt funny under my skin, like a tiny loose bone or something. He said it will heal and be just fine. Over time the pain subsided and I thought nothing of it. The area still felt funny and I just learnt to live with it. The other day I was playing indoor football and another player ran into me, pushing my hand back. The next morning I felt such pain in that area. Thought it was a stretched muscle. The pain didn't go away and after a week I felt a tip of a splint in that area protruding from my skin. I tried to pull it but nothing helped. I decided to cut it open with a scalpel and made a + sign over the tip of the splint. As I pulled it became bigger and bigger. Long story short I pulled out a half inch shard of glass that was buried in my hand all these years. It has healed now and wow that was scary.
My mum had a fall and hit her face,grazed her lip.Cleaned it all up and didn't think anything of it.YEARS later she woke up to something sharp sticking out of her lip.It was a large splinter and must have come from her fall.The human body is a strange amazing thing indeed!
I was hit by a car 25 years ago when I was 12. In the er they got most of the gravel out of my hands, legs, and hips. Over the years something small like a little tiny stone will pop out as if it was missed. It hasn’t happened in the last ten so I think it’s all out now. The first time my pcp said it was normal given the trauma. 😮😅
So did you document that with photographs so you can sue your incompetent doctor? WTF was the x-ray or anything like that? Does the doctor play circus music in his waiting room, because he must be a clown. It's a blessing you lived because that could have gone a different way entirely.
I had something very similar, it was slightly smaller and was in my body for approx 8 months. Where it went in was in a totally different place from where it came out. I went to the doc at the time I got it, all he did was painfullly dig around in my hand. He said he could not find it, that it probably already came out. It was a bg big chunk of cedar wood. Eventually it came out pretty painlessly all on its own. Just goes to prove how intelligent our bodies are to heal ourselves. Actually, mine was about the same size. I did have some nerve damage
I was running thru the grocery store when I was 5, holding a small glass Coke bottle. I fell & the bottle broke, cutting my wrist. I was taken to the hospital & stitched up. When I was 8, I kept feeling something in the fleshy part of the palm of my hand. My mom looked at it under the light but could find nothing. One night I woke her up to tell her it hurt badly. She took me to the kitchen & looked at it under a light. A piece of glass was sticking out! She was able to grab it with tweezers & pull it out. It took 3 years to work it's way out!
I had one in my right foot for MANY YEARS. It would get painful and at times swollen but I couldn’t feel anything until the body starts pushing it out. I couldn’t believe that it was in my foot for so many years and I thought I had gotten it out. It was such a great relief when I removed it.
@@TampaTom it often feels normal, and if something hits it, it got swollen. I removed what I thought was all of it. So I didn’t understand why it hurts from time to time , until it started coming out. And I pulled it out
No giant splinter is the one Dr. ER had a few years ago. Warehouse worker ran into a wood pallet. She had a small chuck of wood sticking out. Turned out to be a piece like 12 inches long. In her leg. She was just sitting there like it was no big deal.
True story. My cousin stepped on a needle as a kid. Like 30 years later he was hurting something fierce in his hip. It was the needle. Traveled all the way up his leg and eventually discovered in his hip bone.
Doctors don't always find stuff, I was getting into my car, and the wood part of a agapanthus speared me. As I was at the doctor's surgery I went back in, and asked if the doctor could look at it. The doctor saw nothing so gave me a band aid. It got infected, I tried to bring the infection out, but the cream I used caused an allergy. Went to an other doctor's they had me come in a few times till the sore got better. It wasn't healing so went back to doctor's, they gave me a blood test all was good. The doctor said it would heal. A few weeks later something pale came up in the shape of a C, I couldn't get it out. I went back to the doctor's and they pulled out a piece of agapanthus, the size of the video you showed, my wound then healed up, after that. If doctor's can miss it it's easy for other's to with less experience.
I worked in a Dental Centre in 1991, I fainted and hit my head on a peice of equipment. Over the years, I thought I could feel a sparp sensation every now and again, my hubby held a mirror up while I parted my hair. He could see something akin to a splinter and pulled it out, it was so long! It was a plastic shard. I wish I had kept it x
I had one in the corner of my big toe when I was a kid. Drove with my family all the way from Florida to South Carolina when my moms uncle noticed me limping. He looked at my toe and got a needle and lit it with a lighter and probed around just between my toenail and the corner an POP comes a splinter about an inch long. It was immediate relief and I was back to my old self within an hour.
Our high school band director had a story....when he was a kid he and friends were playing in the barn...jumping off a top shelf into hay bales below. He got (something, I don't remember what he said) in his foot that went in the bottom of his foot and protruded slightly through the top. He hobbled home. His grandmother said, "Haven't I told you never to play in the barn?" After hearing his weak, "Yes", he said his grandmother put him over her knee and "paddled" his butt. THEN she took him to a doctor! That'll learn ya! LOL
This happened to me in my youth. A week later after I pulled out the splinter and a red line was going up my leg. Thankfully I showed my mother! I was 10 and the year was 72.
I got a massive splinter in my heel from skipping down our weathered old dock. My dad removed it after sterilizing the tweezers and needle (for helping push the splinter towards the surface) with rubbing alcohol and a lighter. It happened in the evening, and my parents didn’t want that nasty old wood staying in my heel. We probably should have gone to the ER. The urgent care center had sewn up a cut I got on the arch of my foot earlier. It was incredibly painful, and they didn’t numb it up. They held me down while I was screaming and stitched it shut. The cut was right on the most tender area of my arch. My dad was so upset. I had cut my foot swimming with him, and he said it was too deep for oysters. I found the only stupid oyster. We’d been out on our boat, and my dad had rushed me to the urgent care that had a couple dock slips for people who got injured on the water. My mom is she had to hold my dad back because he wanted to rush in and hurt the doctor. Which would have just been more traumatic for me. My dad did make a complaint about the doctor and told everyone to avoid them. He learned they had a reputation for being uncompassionate and doing a bad job. I later cut the ball of my foot open on oyster shells and got sewn up at the ER. No scar despite the deepness of the wound. My arch looks like it should belong to Frankenstein’s monster. I healed without infection. I also didn’t want to get more lidocaine or be held down and tortured, so I preferred my dad to do surgery and get the shard out.
The exact same thing happened to my son when he was about 3 years old. I saw the splinter in his hand before it got swollen and when I took him to the hospital they told me he didn't have anything there because his hand was swollen already and it didn't show up in X rays, and they sent him home. I told the doctor I was sure my son had a splinter there and that I was coming back to the hospital for sure. Sure enough my son couldn't stop crying and I took him back to. the hospital and that's when they found the splinter. They had to do a small incision to pull it out. I hate when you know what you have seen and they think you're nuts, 😠👊.
This brought back memories. Similar situation in my teenage years. Doctor started out with small tweezers and kept going back for bigger tools. Finally got the damn thing out after several tries.
I had a bike wreck back when I was a junior, 2017-2018. I was biking home from school and as i went to pedal with my left foot, my toes clipped the road, I then hit a pothole after readjusting myself to avoid wrecking from clipping only to get sent flying the handlebars, doing a fullflip and a half. I brought my arms out in front of me in a x shape to guard my face. My right elbow then revieved a nice small sharp rock all the down to the bone. I at first didn’t feel it. All I felt was immense pain on bith elbows from the impact and pain on my back since the bike also flipped over and landed on top of me. I then stood up. Pushes my bike off the toad and that’s when I felt the rock, inside of my right elbow. I felt around trying to pin point where it was, and saw it’s entryway. I then squeezed as hard and deep as possible and got the rock out and threw it into the ditch next to me. Afterward, I walked back up to school’s Fieldhouse because I was literally right next to it when I wrecked. The entire football team saw it happen. One of my friends who was a senior said it looked like it was a failed evil Knievel stunt. I let one of the coaches patch my arm up for a temporary solution to the problem. Thanked him for it and went to ho pick up my brother from the elementary school, still in immense pain, as can be expected. But because of the way adrenaline works I think, I didn’t feel the pain. I just knew the way it happened, it definitely hurt. Because I felt the pain the day after and for a bout half week later. When my brother and I got home I told my mother and step father of the time what happened and showed them the wound. We then clean it disinfect it again and I got some of my step father’s medical bone dust i think it was called to fill up the hole and repair the tissue. I still have the scar and have close to no feeling in my right elbow. Wish I had more control over my body so I could’ve prevented this from happening but its mainly because of my own clumsiness and me outgrowing my bikes setting before I could change it. Felt like a badass when I wasn’t crying about what happened. I was just thinking to myself, man… my mom’s gonna kill me. But it all worked in the end. And in regards of that “splinter,” what were they doing to get a splinter that big?
Years ago I was sitting on a picnic table and was stuck in my thigh. I finally got it out after 3 days of soreness. It was so soft and flexible. and a relief to get out !!
I had a splinter about that big, little bigger, stuck in my left butt cheek when I was a kid. Was skating an old ramp and slid down the transition and a big ass splinter got jammed in. Mom couldn’t get it out so I had to go to the emergency room. Doctor tried pliers and still couldn’t get it. Ended up having to cut my cheek open a bit to get it out. Found out years later there’s still about a 1/3 inch of it left in there. Still there to this day 20 years later.
All that goes through my mind here is a lecture a past professor gave the class on tetnis outside. He asked where we thought it would be and people said general things such on on rusted items and what not. The class was shocked when they heard the bacteria was everywhere even could be in dirt. The think is it needs a dark place with no oxygen for it to reproduce. Quite a lesson to learn...then my professor tried to show us how a cow stanchion worked and got his head stuck we were like "well guess class is over" 😆😂🤣
I was raised just healing things like this on my own. And even now I have a giant urge to throw alcohol into that hole it left behind lol. It would sting so good.
When I was a child I stepped on a huge thorn in my heel. My mama scraped the inside of a potato and put it on the splinter and the next morning the potato poultice had drawn the splinter out and she grabbed the tweezers and yanked it out 🎉
I grew up just like that too lol. I fell down on an escalator and the jagged edge put a pretty big hole in my knee. I probably should have gone and got stitches, but I was a big baby and didn't want to. Though for some reason, I had no problem sitting at home and pouring peroxide and rubbing alcohol into the hole for weeks My dad watched me do it one day and thought I was nuts, bc I didn't flinch at the good good sting 🤣
I had this happen once. My mom refused EMS to take me to get it removed. My grandpa who was former Amish soaked bread in milk and put it on the wound over night and the piece of wood disappeared. True story!
I remember i had a wood chip in my knee when i was six, when I removed it a week or so later i was leaking a yellowish pudding like liquid and it smelled like stale eggs and chunky milk So I squeezed it out and dumped some alcohol in the hole (horrible idea it hurt like hell) and put some gauze on it The swelling started to go away 2 days later and i was fine
Even if you see a doctor, foreign bodies can still be left under the skin My nephew was hit on the head with a glass bottle when a teenager. He went to the er, was x-rayed, had glass fragments removed from the wound and was sutured He was still picking tiny glass fragments out of his scalp 5 years later,as they were pushed to the surface by skin renewal
Yup. My brother was also glassed and bottled and he’s still got bits of glass in his face the doc couldn’t get out at the time. That was almost 20 y ago
yeah 3 years ago, I got a 3 inch sliver of thin copper wire imbedded in my foot after working in my granfathers shop, just last year I felt lots of pain randomly and went digging in my foot until I got it out
Why?! WHY?! Why would anyone leave it like that for so long?! Can't tell me they didn't notice it Edit: can't even be a branch, have to be a whole tree lol
I had a thorn about half that size lodged in a similar area when i was younger. I only found out because i was playing with the scab and ripped it off, squeezed and it popped out. I didn't even really feel pain or discomfort to think something was in there, but i could tell sometime was "off." About the healing wound.
Yes I've had three emergency surgeries after wounds got infected.. pretty ironic considering the thousands of cuts and splinters I've had over a 30 something year.carrier in the building industry. I used to just ignore shit but I sometimes use antiseptic on cuts now if they are from something dirty. Renovating old bathrooms is bad for bacterial infections
When I was about 12 I went horse riding in the bush in South Africa. Came home and was in the bath and saw a black dark circle about 3mm on my knee. When I felt it it was hard but no pain. I couldn’t get it out so my Mom told me to soak it in the bath. After 10 minutes I pressed on the sides and a thorn from a thorn tree came out literally 2.5CM long. I almost got sick. Massive hole but no pain. At all.
As a kid, I got a huge firewood splinter stuck deep in the arch of my foot. After 15 minutes of agonizing digging from my mother, I called it quits and left it in. Amazingly, there was never any real inflammation. It worked itself out about 3 years later. Most of it had disintegrated, leaving a small mushy sliver.
If I didn't have access to a Doctor I would clean the wound with iodine or hydrogen peroxide. Then put Bactericin or Neosporin with a bandaid on it. And repeat rinsing with hydrogen peroxide and apply the ointment every day until healed up. That's what my Doctor told after having gotten a bad wound from having been run over by a lawnmower tractor.
Emergency Doc: So Mom, when did you realize your daughter had a problem more than a splinter... Mom: Oh..I dunno maybe when her first world's to me were "I'm Groot"!
That splinter was huge! How were they able to tolerate it so long? From the reaction, you can tell it had been embedded awhile. I wonder if it could have caused sepsis. I was septic several years ago due to a bacterial infection in my intestines. I never want to go through that again.
@@marvin2678 Weak to the point that I couldn't stand fully upright, and to get to the bathroom, I had to pull myself upstairs by holding the banister; nausea; extremely out of breath, even when I walked to another room; dizzy; shaky; hot and clammy; fever of 101 (I think); and low BP. There are other symptoms possible to indicate sepsis, so check online if yours are different from mine. If you have any doubt, do NOT wait! If you call 911 and an ambulance comes, you can opt to not go the hospital if they aren't insistent. Just keep in mind that if you don't seek treatment quickly, you could experience multiple organ failure and compromise of blood flow to the limbs (necessitating amputation). Sepsis is incredibly dangerous.
I am so glad you're okay and are with us right now! And I appreciate your last statement that if you think something is wrong, call 911. I was severely burned after a bad accident involving fire in my home and didn't go to the doctor to have it treated. I was too scared and thought it would go away on its own. Don't ask me what I was thinking because I have no idea and I am such an idiot. One night I woke up in a complete panic with every single symptom you described and after looking it up online, I was completely convinced I was septic from my injuries. I begged my mom to take me to the hospital at like midnight. It seems like I was just having a severe panic attack and my injuries didn't make it any better. They took care of me and sent me home after a few days (my heart rate was out of control and they wanted it to go down first) with medication and cream for my wounds. That trip cost me a lot of money but I do not regret it for a second. I truly thought I was dying in that moment and sepsis was the only word I could hear in my head! My mom actually had sepsis about 12 years ago after surviving a brutal attack from her ex husband (my father whom I have completely excommunicated).. she had a major infection on her entire backside after being slammed so hard into concrete flooring and she didn't get treated. She was literally black in bruises and her internal injuries were far too much for her body to handle. It landed her in the hospital for I don't even know long. It wasn't the first and only time I thought I was going to lose her.
@@Ena48145 I hope you still have your Mom. I lost mine last year (just 3 months after losing my only sibling). As close as I was to my Mom, her death wasn't unexpected. She had been in the hospital and then rehab for a total of 3 months. She was released to my care at home, but she remained bedridden. She was ultimately put on hospice. Because of her low quality of life, her death was a blessing. My brother was my best friend, and his death wasn't necessary. (My SIL allowed her Dad and her sister to expose him to COVID. She knew they were sick. My brother had fought/survived leukemia for 28 years, so it especially hurt to lose him to COVID. My SIL still doesn't claim accountability for my brother's death.) I'm sorry to hear about your burn injuries. I can't even imagine how awful that would be. I hope you are doing well now. After my experience with sepsis (and learning how deadly it can be), I try to warn people to take it seriously. The night prior to my going to the hospital, I had actually been seen by paramedics. I was in Walgreens and they saw how weak I was and called an ambulance. Because I had already been hospitalized twice in the two months prior, and I just didn't want to go back. I was also afraid to leave my Mom at home alone. The paramedics didn't insist that I go. By the following morning, I wasn't better. Months after that, I learned that postponing treatment even a few hours exponentially increases your chances of dying. Even the hospital never told me that. I hope you continue to be well!
I had gotten a wooden splinter underneath my fingernail one time the old wood paneling I was making my bed and I went to shove the sheet down and my finger grazed the paneling and a splinter that was pretty much the length of my finger went in there I sounded like a possessed person by Satan him damn self I didn't even know I knew words that I said that's how bad it hurt.
I was cleaning skirting boards not long ago without wearing gloves and ended up with a good sized splinter down the side of my thumb nail.I immediately removed what I thought to be the entire splinter and for the next week the thumb was sore and I squeezed a small amount of puss from it a couple times.Eventually I realised there was still some in there and pulled out another splinter as big as the first
Something similar happens to me whenever I get stiches. My body heals quickly like Wolverine. and the dissolvable stitches don't always dissolve quickly enough and my body pushes them out, so it kinda becomes like a splinter.
I had this happen when I was about 5 or 6.. Playing on the 80’s wooden monkey bars.. at the end instead of jumping down.. I decided to slide down the wooden part.. I thought I got stuff by a bee.. well my leg kept hurting.. 3 weeks later.. my inner thigh was swollen like a watermelon… my grandmother grabbed a pair of tweezers and bam.. out came the equivalent of 4 inches long and 1/4 of and inch thick splinter.. a whole bunch of puss afterwards..
I honestly don't think l would wait to see if it gets better on its own.l think l would be asking for an antibiotic so l didn't get an infection from this !!!
My brother took a tiny piece of glass out of my hand. It hurt on the inside, but the outside was already “healed”… He cut me and with sterilized tweezers took that sucker out ❤
I jumped from my bunk bed once and got a toothpick an inch and a half in my heel. Still have the scar. The mental scar. My family will never let me forget it
Oh, I know that he feels so relieved after putting out. That happen to me when I'm little in the same place. The only difference between that one and I was mine come out just to push. ❤ Amazing
I once set on a picnic table and got a huge splinter like that in the crouch...ouch! My body just naturally pushed it out over time...I think 🤔 lol I can't see the area...
Infection is one comcern but a bigger concern will be tetanus. I've seen countless of wood splinter injuries resulting in tetanus due to neglect. General surgeon from Tacloban City, Leyte, Philippines here.
Oh geez, reminds me of when my neighbor stepped on a toothpick. We tried pulling out with teasers & pliers. It would not budge. Drove her to the ER where she had surgery.
When my Grandson had a splinter when he was about 3 and he didn't tell anyone from treated wood. He wound up with blood poisoning almost died and it caused the bone in his leg to break. The bone in his leg didn't heal like it should and he had to be put in a body cast. He went through a very long recovery. Anyone that has a splinter they can't get out right away get to a Doctor right away.
Always wear gloves and clean the area before and after. You can use saline solution to clean out the hole as it comes out in a stream usually if you buy from the store
Hit pavement hard once as a teen, and didn't realize a pebble was imbedded at first. The first person to clean it up packed it with cotton balls. COTTON BALLS. Yes, at 16 I did know how much fun this would be to change out. Gave it a few days to heal and be less painful. Carefully peeled off the cotton balls and scabbing to clean it up and use proper bandages this time. Few more days to heal, and let it out to breathe. The center of the scab remained soft and gooey a day later, which was when I realized something was still under my skin. Knowing I could never sit through someone else digging it out, I gritted my teeth and did it myself. Finally popped out a little pyramid shaped stone that was point-side out. Such a relief! Next day, a proper scab covered it. No infection, so I must have cleaned it well enough each time.
Several years ago my brother was barefoot and stepped on something. He got a splinter in the bottom of his foot. Mom thought she had pulled all of it out. Well, a few months later a spot on top of his foot started to fester. The splinter had worked its way through his foot and came out the top.
Knowing myself I’d be rooting around in there for a while trying to get every little bit out even if it hurt and made the scar worse. Had to dig through a wound in my knee to get out a single grain of sand after I removed some rocks that got stuck under my skin when I fell while rafting. Hurt like hell but I can’t have some random piece of sand in my skin. Got bandaged well when we got back to the cabin, cool scar as a result. Can’t see the scar well but I can feel it if I touch it
the human body does so much to keep us as safe as possible. that splinter was making me nauseous
😵😵💫🤢🤮I definitely would go to a doctor!
Lol same....super gross
It does so much but so little
The only reason we are at the top of the food chain is because we can use tools
We are slow runners
Weak
And our bite force is low
Also we are bipeds
Being a biped is not great
It slows us down puts more stress on our bones ligaments tendons and cartilage causing us to be more likely to damage those areas
We originally evolved to he quadrapedals so our tendons are not as strong as they need to be to allow for quick change in direction that is why athletes often tear their ACL
@@darthrevan8640 ok lol
@@mrbarjam7067 correction to my statement
One of our early ancestors was bipedal
It was called " Orrorin tugenensis"
Really cool
"go see a doctor"
family members be like go get me a tweezer rubbing alcohol and stop crying.
Yup, not all things r doctor thing
They just saying it for brainwash and to strip your 💰
Asians
My mom literally all my childhood. She’s German.
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My grandma
I once had a splinter like that. Instead of going to doctors/hospital to ret it removed, my parents decided to let me have my own way (I was terrified of needles as a kid. Massive tantrum throwing idiot.) it took about a month for my body to work it out enough for me to be able to dig out. The wood was so soft that tweeezers would crumble it when I tried to dig it out before that.
Parents, take your kids to hospital/doctors. Tantrums be damned.
Yeah, the doctor can numb it up before digging it out...
Or, avoid getting splinters that often
I knew that at the time, but the needle scared me more.
@@David29404wow, however long humans have existed and you, the Messiah apparently, have just shown us the way to salvation! (🙄)
Next time, slice off a piece of potato and tape it over the spot with surgical tape or a bandage. The starch in the potato helps bring the splinter to the surface
When I was a kid I got a huge chunk of wood in the bottom of my foot. It ran from the pad under my toes almost to my heel. But hospitals were really not an option for our family. My mom had me lay on my belly and had my brothers sit on my back and hold my legs down. Then she pulled that thing out with pliers. Probably another hours worth of removing little bits out. It was brutal, for sure. But man, my mom could nurse us back to health better than any doctor could dream of.
gotta love moms
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What country do you live in that you dont have/can't afford healthcare?
@@genesiz7201Maybe the United States? You know, the only first world country that doesn't have universal healthcare? Lmao
Wow! How can you let a splinter like that go? That’s got to hurt.
How does anyone just ignore a "splinter" of that size?
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Wow!
I had a bicycle accident years ago. Landed on the palms of my hands. Doctor at the time inspected me cause something felt funny under my skin, like a tiny loose bone or something. He said it will heal and be just fine. Over time the pain subsided and I thought nothing of it. The area still felt funny and I just learnt to live with it. The other day I was playing indoor football and another player ran into me, pushing my hand back. The next morning I felt such pain in that area. Thought it was a stretched muscle. The pain didn't go away and after a week I felt a tip of a splint in that area protruding from my skin. I tried to pull it but nothing helped. I decided to cut it open with a scalpel and made a + sign over the tip of the splint. As I pulled it became bigger and bigger. Long story short I pulled out a half inch shard of glass that was buried in my hand all these years. It has healed now and wow that was scary.
Goddamn
My mum had a fall and hit her face,grazed her lip.Cleaned it all up and didn't think anything of it.YEARS later she woke up to something sharp sticking out of her lip.It was a large splinter and must have come from her fall.The human body is a strange amazing thing indeed!
I was hit by a car 25 years ago when I was 12. In the er they got most of the gravel out of my hands, legs, and hips. Over the years something small like a little tiny stone will pop out as if it was missed. It hasn’t happened in the last ten so I think it’s all out now. The first time my pcp said it was normal given the trauma. 😮😅
WTF!?
So did you document that with photographs so you can sue your incompetent doctor? WTF was the x-ray or anything like that?
Does the doctor play circus music in his waiting room, because he must be a clown.
It's a blessing you lived because that could have gone a different way entirely.
I had something very similar, it was slightly smaller and was in my body for approx 8 months. Where it went in was in a totally different place from where it came out.
I went to the doc at the time I got it, all he did was painfullly dig around in my hand. He said he could not find it, that it probably already came out. It was a bg big chunk of cedar wood. Eventually it came out pretty painlessly all on its own. Just goes to prove how intelligent our bodies are to heal ourselves. Actually, mine was about the same size. I did have some nerve damage
I'm a nurse and I've seen this happen several times, go to the doctor, doc can't find it. Eventually it usually festers out..
Pour some 91% alcohol in it
I was running thru the grocery store when I was 5, holding a small glass Coke bottle. I fell & the bottle broke, cutting my wrist. I was taken to the hospital & stitched up. When I was 8, I kept feeling something in the fleshy part of the palm of my hand. My mom looked at it under the light but could find nothing. One night I woke her up to tell her it hurt badly. She took me to the kitchen & looked at it under a light. A piece of glass was sticking out! She was able to grab it with tweezers & pull it out. It took 3 years to work it's way out!
Who else was waiting for a spider to start running around 😆
nobody, don't even put that image in this comment section
I had one in my right foot for MANY YEARS. It would get painful and at times swollen but I couldn’t feel anything until the body starts pushing it out. I couldn’t believe that it was in my foot for so many years and I thought I had gotten it out. It was such a great relief when I removed it.
@@TampaTom it often feels normal, and if something hits it, it got swollen. I removed what I thought was all of it. So I didn’t understand why it hurts from time to time , until it started coming out. And I pulled it out
I bet that felt sooo much better once it was out!
No giant splinter is the one Dr. ER had a few years ago. Warehouse worker ran into a wood pallet. She had a small chuck of wood sticking out. Turned out to be a piece like 12 inches long. In her leg. She was just sitting there like it was no big deal.
True story. My cousin stepped on a needle as a kid. Like 30 years later he was hurting something fierce in his hip. It was the needle. Traveled all the way up his leg and eventually discovered in his hip bone.
that wasn't a splinter; that was the whole damn tree.
Kid comment
That's literally what the guy said ..
It’s infected , sorry
Doctors don't always find stuff, I was getting into my car, and the wood part of a agapanthus speared me. As I was at the doctor's surgery I went back in, and asked if the doctor could look at it. The doctor saw nothing so gave me a band aid. It got infected, I tried to bring the infection out, but the cream I used caused an allergy. Went to an other doctor's they had me come in a few times till the sore got better. It wasn't healing so went back to doctor's, they gave me a blood test all was good. The doctor said it would heal. A few weeks later something pale came up in the shape of a C, I couldn't get it out. I went back to the doctor's and they pulled out a piece of agapanthus, the size of the video you showed, my wound then healed up, after that. If doctor's can miss it it's easy for other's to with less experience.
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I got a catfish spine stuck in my leg, and it broke off in there. 3 months later it started coming out.
I worked in a Dental Centre in 1991, I fainted and hit my head on a peice of equipment.
Over the years, I thought I could feel a sparp sensation every now and again, my hubby held a mirror up while I parted my hair. He could see something akin to a splinter and pulled it out, it was so long! It was a plastic shard. I wish I had kept it x
I had one in the corner of my big toe when I was a kid. Drove with my family all the way from Florida to South Carolina when my moms uncle noticed me limping. He looked at my toe and got a needle and lit it with a lighter and probed around just between my toenail and the corner an POP comes a splinter about an inch long. It was immediate relief and I was back to my old self within an hour.
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Our high school band director had a story....when he was a kid he and friends were playing in the barn...jumping off a top shelf into hay bales below.
He got (something, I don't remember what he said) in his foot that went in the bottom of his foot and protruded slightly through the top.
He hobbled home. His grandmother said, "Haven't I told you never to play in the barn?" After hearing his weak, "Yes", he said his grandmother put him over her knee and "paddled" his butt.
THEN she took him to a doctor!
That'll learn ya! LOL
This happened to me in my youth. A week later after I pulled out the splinter and a red line was going up my leg. Thankfully I showed my mother! I was 10 and the year was 72.
I don’t think they are done yet.
Looks like there could be more splinter material under the skin in the dark area below the big hole.
she just saved a bunch of money by doing it herself without Geico
I got a massive splinter in my heel from skipping down our weathered old dock. My dad removed it after sterilizing the tweezers and needle (for helping push the splinter towards the surface) with rubbing alcohol and a lighter. It happened in the evening, and my parents didn’t want that nasty old wood staying in my heel.
We probably should have gone to the ER. The urgent care center had sewn up a cut I got on the arch of my foot earlier. It was incredibly painful, and they didn’t numb it up. They held me down while I was screaming and stitched it shut. The cut was right on the most tender area of my arch. My dad was so upset. I had cut my foot swimming with him, and he said it was too deep for oysters. I found the only stupid oyster. We’d been out on our boat, and my dad had rushed me to the urgent care that had a couple dock slips for people who got injured on the water. My mom is she had to hold my dad back because he wanted to rush in and hurt the doctor. Which would have just been more traumatic for me.
My dad did make a complaint about the doctor and told everyone to avoid them. He learned they had a reputation for being uncompassionate and doing a bad job. I later cut the ball of my foot open on oyster shells and got sewn up at the ER. No scar despite the deepness of the wound. My arch looks like it should belong to Frankenstein’s monster.
I healed without infection. I also didn’t want to get more lidocaine or be held down and tortured, so I preferred my dad to do surgery and get the shard out.
The exact same thing happened to my son when he was about 3 years old. I saw the splinter in his hand before it got swollen and when I took him to the hospital they told me he didn't have anything there because his hand was swollen already and it didn't show up in X rays, and they sent him home. I told the doctor I was sure my son had a splinter there and that I was coming back to the hospital for sure. Sure enough my son couldn't stop crying and I took him back to.
the hospital and that's when they found the splinter. They had to do a small incision to pull it out. I hate when you know what you have seen and they think you're nuts, 😠👊.
Strangely enough, wood seems to set off an allergic reaction in me. Splinters feel like fire in my soul
U like to suck blood and u probably hate garlic too.
Wood is organic material so unlike metal or glass makes a home for bacteria and the like . So I heard 🤷🏻♂️
This brought back memories. Similar situation in my teenage years. Doctor started out with small tweezers and kept going back for bigger tools. Finally got the damn thing out after several tries.
Her Har
HINT: soak area in warm salt water.
lessens infection AND causes the wood to soften and grow larger and is easy to remove
I had a bike wreck back when I was a junior, 2017-2018. I was biking home from school and as i went to pedal with my left foot, my toes clipped the road, I then hit a pothole after readjusting myself to avoid wrecking from clipping only to get sent flying the handlebars, doing a fullflip and a half. I brought my arms out in front of me in a x shape to guard my face. My right elbow then revieved a nice small sharp rock all the down to the bone. I at first didn’t feel it. All I felt was immense pain on bith elbows from the impact and pain on my back since the bike also flipped over and landed on top of me. I then stood up. Pushes my bike off the toad and that’s when I felt the rock, inside of my right elbow. I felt around trying to pin point where it was, and saw it’s entryway. I then squeezed as hard and deep as possible and got the rock out and threw it into the ditch next to me. Afterward, I walked back up to school’s Fieldhouse because I was literally right next to it when I wrecked. The entire football team saw it happen. One of my friends who was a senior said it looked like it was a failed evil Knievel stunt. I let one of the coaches patch my arm up for a temporary solution to the problem. Thanked him for it and went to ho pick up my brother from the elementary school, still in immense pain, as can be expected. But because of the way adrenaline works I think, I didn’t feel the pain. I just knew the way it happened, it definitely hurt. Because I felt the pain the day after and for a bout half week later. When my brother and I got home I told my mother and step father of the time what happened and showed them the wound. We then clean it disinfect it again and I got some of my step father’s medical bone dust i think it was called to fill up the hole and repair the tissue. I still have the scar and have close to no feeling in my right elbow. Wish I had more control over my body so I could’ve prevented this from happening but its mainly because of my own clumsiness and me outgrowing my bikes setting before I could change it. Felt like a badass when I wasn’t crying about what happened. I was just thinking to myself, man… my mom’s gonna kill me. But it all worked in the end. And in regards of that “splinter,” what were they doing to get a splinter that big?
Господи ну и люди. За чем до этого доводить 🤦. Я блин если увидел у себя на теле что то новое. Тут же будет мной ликвидирован 🤣🤪
Им наверно это приколно,они же всех защищают,вдруг это пострадает. Гуманные.
Це факт! 👍
так это заноза! как такое не увидеть и не почувствовать? наркоты наверное
Years ago I was sitting on a picnic table and was stuck in my thigh. I finally got it out after 3 days of soreness. It was so soft and flexible. and a relief to get out !!
I knew someone who was in a car crash and 10 years later they were casually scratching their face and a piece OF GLASS FELL OUT
I had a splinter about that big, little bigger, stuck in my left butt cheek when I was a kid. Was skating an old ramp and slid down the transition and a big ass splinter got jammed in. Mom couldn’t get it out so I had to go to the emergency room. Doctor tried pliers and still couldn’t get it. Ended up having to cut my cheek open a bit to get it out. Found out years later there’s still about a 1/3 inch of it left in there. Still there to this day 20 years later.
All that goes through my mind here is a lecture a past professor gave the class on tetnis outside. He asked where we thought it would be and people said general things such on on rusted items and what not. The class was shocked when they heard the bacteria was everywhere even could be in dirt. The think is it needs a dark place with no oxygen for it to reproduce. Quite a lesson to learn...then my professor tried to show us how a cow stanchion worked and got his head stuck we were like "well guess class is over" 😆😂🤣
I was raised just healing things like this on my own. And even now I have a giant urge to throw alcohol into that hole it left behind lol. It would sting so good.
When I was a child I stepped on a huge thorn in my heel. My mama scraped the inside of a potato and put it on the splinter and the next morning the potato poultice had drawn the splinter out and she grabbed the tweezers and yanked it out 🎉
I grew up just like that too lol. I fell down on an escalator and the jagged edge put a pretty big hole in my knee. I probably should have gone and got stitches, but I was a big baby and didn't want to. Though for some reason, I had no problem sitting at home and pouring peroxide and rubbing alcohol into the hole for weeks
My dad watched me do it one day and thought I was nuts, bc I didn't flinch at the good good sting 🤣
Should never pour alcohol that deep into the body. It can cause some serious damage, that pain is there for a reason.
“Whoa Thats Huge”
Me: THATS WHAT SHE SAID!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I had this happen once. My mom refused EMS to take me to get it removed. My grandpa who was former Amish soaked bread in milk and put it on the wound over night and the piece of wood disappeared.
True story!
It looks very infected. 👍⭐️
I remember i had a wood chip in my knee when i was six, when I removed it a week or so later i was leaking a yellowish pudding like liquid and it smelled like stale eggs and chunky milk
So I squeezed it out and dumped some alcohol in the hole (horrible idea it hurt like hell) and put some gauze on it
The swelling started to go away 2 days later and i was fine
OMG that was huge! I sure hope they cleaned it and continue to.
Even if you see a doctor, foreign bodies can still be left under the skin
My nephew was hit on the head with a glass bottle when a teenager.
He went to the er, was x-rayed, had glass fragments removed from the wound and was sutured
He was still picking tiny glass fragments out of his scalp 5 years later,as they were pushed to the surface by skin renewal
Yup. My brother was also glassed and bottled and he’s still got bits of glass in his face the doc couldn’t get out at the time. That was almost 20 y ago
yeah 3 years ago, I got a 3 inch sliver of thin copper wire imbedded in my foot after working in my granfathers shop, just last year I felt lots of pain randomly and went digging in my foot until I got it out
That was so satisfying! LMFAO I know....I'm weird 🤣 😂
Why?! WHY?! Why would anyone leave it like that for so long?! Can't tell me they didn't notice it
Edit: can't even be a branch, have to be a whole tree lol
True
I had a thorn about half that size lodged in a similar area when i was younger. I only found out because i was playing with the scab and ripped it off, squeezed and it popped out. I didn't even really feel pain or discomfort to think something was in there, but i could tell sometime was "off." About the healing wound.
Yes I've had three emergency surgeries after wounds got infected.. pretty ironic considering the thousands of cuts and splinters I've had over a 30 something year.carrier in the building industry. I used to just ignore shit but I sometimes use antiseptic on cuts now if they are from something dirty. Renovating old bathrooms is bad for bacterial infections
That's not a splinter, that's a twig!!!
When I was about 12 I went horse riding in the bush in South Africa. Came home and was in the bath and saw a black dark circle about 3mm on my knee. When I felt it it was hard but no pain. I couldn’t get it out so my Mom told me to soak it in the bath. After 10 minutes I pressed on the sides and a thorn from a thorn tree came out literally 2.5CM long. I almost got sick. Massive hole but no pain. At all.
As a kid, I got a huge firewood splinter stuck deep in the arch of my foot. After 15 minutes of agonizing digging from my mother, I called it quits and left it in. Amazingly, there was never any real inflammation. It worked itself out about 3 years later. Most of it had disintegrated, leaving a small mushy sliver.
If I didn't have access to a Doctor I would clean the wound with iodine or hydrogen peroxide. Then put Bactericin or Neosporin with a bandaid on it. And repeat rinsing with hydrogen peroxide and apply the ointment every day until healed up.
That's what my Doctor told after having gotten a bad wound from having been run over by a lawnmower tractor.
Emergency Doc: So Mom, when did you realize your daughter had a problem more than a splinter...
Mom: Oh..I dunno maybe when her first world's to me were "I'm Groot"!
That just looks so much like special effex makeup
fake
Bro had the wood planks equipped
My mom be like don't be dramatic I'll get it out in a second
That splinter was huge! How were they able to tolerate it so long? From the reaction, you can tell it had been embedded awhile. I wonder if it could have caused sepsis. I was septic several years ago due to a bacterial infection in my intestines. I never want to go through that again.
Sepsis is terrible, my dad went through it. I’m glad you are better now.
What symptoms did you have in the sepsis
@@marvin2678 Weak to the point that I couldn't stand fully upright, and to get to the bathroom, I had to pull myself upstairs by holding the banister; nausea; extremely out of breath, even when I walked to another room; dizzy; shaky; hot and clammy; fever of 101 (I think); and low BP. There are other symptoms possible to indicate sepsis, so check online if yours are different from mine.
If you have any doubt, do NOT wait! If you call 911 and an ambulance comes, you can opt to not go the hospital if they aren't insistent. Just keep in mind that if you don't seek treatment quickly, you could experience multiple organ failure and compromise of blood flow to the limbs (necessitating amputation). Sepsis is incredibly dangerous.
I am so glad you're okay and are with us right now! And I appreciate your last statement that if you think something is wrong, call 911. I was severely burned after a bad accident involving fire in my home and didn't go to the doctor to have it treated. I was too scared and thought it would go away on its own. Don't ask me what I was thinking because I have no idea and I am such an idiot. One night I woke up in a complete panic with every single symptom you described and after looking it up online, I was completely convinced I was septic from my injuries. I begged my mom to take me to the hospital at like midnight. It seems like I was just having a severe panic attack and my injuries didn't make it any better. They took care of me and sent me home after a few days (my heart rate was out of control and they wanted it to go down first) with medication and cream for my wounds. That trip cost me a lot of money but I do not regret it for a second. I truly thought I was dying in that moment and sepsis was the only word I could hear in my head! My mom actually had sepsis about 12 years ago after surviving a brutal attack from her ex husband (my father whom I have completely excommunicated).. she had a major infection on her entire backside after being slammed so hard into concrete flooring and she didn't get treated. She was literally black in bruises and her internal injuries were far too much for her body to handle. It landed her in the hospital for I don't even know long. It wasn't the first and only time I thought I was going to lose her.
@@Ena48145 I hope you still have your Mom. I lost mine last year (just 3 months after losing my only sibling). As close as I was to my Mom, her death wasn't unexpected. She had been in the hospital and then rehab for a total of 3 months. She was released to my care at home, but she remained bedridden. She was ultimately put on hospice. Because of her low quality of life, her death was a blessing. My brother was my best friend, and his death wasn't necessary. (My SIL allowed her Dad and her sister to expose him to COVID. She knew they were sick. My brother had fought/survived leukemia for 28 years, so it especially hurt to lose him to COVID. My SIL still doesn't claim accountability for my brother's death.)
I'm sorry to hear about your burn injuries. I can't even imagine how awful that would be. I hope you are doing well now.
After my experience with sepsis (and learning how deadly it can be), I try to warn people to take it seriously. The night prior to my going to the hospital, I had actually been seen by paramedics. I was in Walgreens and they saw how weak I was and called an ambulance. Because I had already been hospitalized twice in the two months prior, and I just didn't want to go back. I was also afraid to leave my Mom at home alone. The paramedics didn't insist that I go. By the following morning, I wasn't better. Months after that, I learned that postponing treatment even a few hours exponentially increases your chances of dying. Even the hospital never told me that.
I hope you continue to be well!
When I seen it being pulled out my eye started watering idk why 😂 !! Am I really crying at the sight of this ? ……. Yes , yes I am
I've had a lot bigger one than that. Still have a hole scar after 40 years
Wow That was a successful extraction of a 2x4 stud. Any removal had to feel great. Congrats😂🎉
Why on earth would you wait so long? I know that was excruciatingly painful!!
I had gotten a wooden splinter underneath my fingernail one time the old wood paneling I was making my bed and I went to shove the sheet down and my finger grazed the paneling and a splinter that was pretty much the length of my finger went in there I sounded like a possessed person by Satan him damn self I didn't even know I knew words that I said that's how bad it hurt.
Bro IMAGINE the relief she had when the doctor pulled it out
I was cleaning skirting boards not long ago without wearing gloves and ended up with a good sized splinter down the side of my thumb nail.I immediately removed what I thought to be the entire splinter and for the next week the thumb was sore and I squeezed a small amount of puss from it a couple times.Eventually I realised there was still some in there and pulled out another splinter as big as the first
Now you have a pencil holder on the knee, i'm only seeing advantages
🤣💀
I held my breath as it was coming out!!
Something similar happens to me whenever I get stiches. My body heals quickly like Wolverine. and the dissolvable stitches don't always dissolve quickly enough and my body pushes them out, so it kinda becomes like a splinter.
I had this happen when I was about 5 or 6.. Playing on the 80’s wooden monkey bars.. at the end instead of jumping down.. I decided to slide down the wooden part.. I thought I got stuff by a bee.. well my leg kept hurting.. 3 weeks later.. my inner thigh was swollen like a watermelon… my grandmother grabbed a pair of tweezers and bam.. out came the equivalent of 4 inches long and 1/4 of and inch thick splinter.. a whole bunch of puss afterwards..
I honestly don't think l would wait to see if it gets better on its own.l think l would be asking for an antibiotic so l didn't get an infection from this !!!
aí que dor e que alívio ufa...
Everytime I see one of these extractions, all I can imagine is the relief they must feel from having these things removed.
My brother took a tiny piece of glass out of my hand. It hurt on the inside, but the outside was already “healed”…
He cut me and with sterilized tweezers took that sucker out ❤
You can see the scar wax on their leg💀💀
are you saying this is fake?
@@thedevilsadvocate5210 yes I am lmao
Yeah that's been in there a while..
I jumped from my bunk bed once and got a toothpick an inch and a half in my heel. Still have the scar. The mental scar. My family will never let me forget it
Oh, I know that he feels so relieved after putting out. That happen to me when I'm little in the same place. The only difference between that one and I was mine come out just to push. ❤ Amazing
I once set on a picnic table and got a huge splinter like that in the crouch...ouch! My body just naturally pushed it out over time...I think 🤔 lol I can't see the area...
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How could you not know that was in there?
Wow this is brutally excellent
Annnnddd….. more nightmares tonight!
That’s been there a COOL minute…
Ouch that looks like that would have hurt so bad
Infection is one comcern but a bigger concern will be tetanus. I've seen countless of wood splinter injuries resulting in tetanus due to neglect. General surgeon from Tacloban City, Leyte, Philippines here.
I wanna look away but I can't-
IT WAS SO *GOOEY* JFC 😩🙏🏼🤘🏼
I had a dirty joke for this, but I will spare everyone.
When you want to look away but u still want to see what happened 🤦♀️ 🤦♂️
That is so awesome.. I wish it was me pulling it out!! Lol
That splinter look 30 years-old praise the Lord Jesus Christ for Doctor's and prayers amen 🙏🏼
That’s one tough cookie! I felt myself passin out while the tree was coming out of the baby’s leg..😂😮🤢
Finally a whole video
Oh geez, reminds me of when my neighbor stepped on a toothpick. We tried pulling out with teasers & pliers. It would not budge. Drove her to the ER where she had surgery.
I had a wooden splitter in my hand for over a year, it never got that bad by it was uncomfortable
When my Grandson had a splinter when he was about 3 and he didn't tell anyone from treated wood. He wound up with blood poisoning almost died and it caused the bone in his leg to break. The bone in his leg didn't heal like it should and he had to be put in a body cast. He went through a very long recovery. Anyone that has a splinter they can't get out right away get to a Doctor right away.
It blows my mind at how long people leave these in.
Always wear gloves and clean the area before and after. You can use saline solution to clean out the hole as it comes out in a stream usually if you buy from the store
Thank you . I have one , I need to get it out .
Anyone else remember those old wooden foundations around wood chip pits that jungle gyms used?
The itch after you remove that feels amazing
Hit pavement hard once as a teen, and didn't realize a pebble was imbedded at first. The first person to clean it up packed it with cotton balls. COTTON BALLS. Yes, at 16 I did know how much fun this would be to change out. Gave it a few days to heal and be less painful. Carefully peeled off the cotton balls and scabbing to clean it up and use proper bandages this time. Few more days to heal, and let it out to breathe. The center of the scab remained soft and gooey a day later, which was when I realized something was still under my skin.
Knowing I could never sit through someone else digging it out, I gritted my teeth and did it myself. Finally popped out a little pyramid shaped stone that was point-side out. Such a relief! Next day, a proper scab covered it. No infection, so I must have cleaned it well enough each time.
Several years ago my brother was barefoot and stepped on something. He got a splinter in the bottom of his foot. Mom thought she had pulled all of it out. Well, a few months later a spot on top of his foot started to fester. The splinter had worked its way through his foot and came out the top.
Feel like I'm at McDonald's trying to understand the intercom
Knowing myself I’d be rooting around in there for a while trying to get every little bit out even if it hurt and made the scar worse.
Had to dig through a wound in my knee to get out a single grain of sand after I removed some rocks that got stuck under my skin when I fell while rafting. Hurt like hell but I can’t have some random piece of sand in my skin. Got bandaged well when we got back to the cabin, cool scar as a result. Can’t see the scar well but I can feel it if I touch it
Finally a guy on the bottom of the screen that actually contributes to the video