Blackthorn splinter in thumb help

[Michen]

Fantastic! Was that a blackthorn? Looks like you could pull it out with tweezers - on video of course...

No it was a weird infected insect bite that I came back from south east Asia with!

 

[Gloi]

No it was a weird infected insect bite that I came back from south east Asia with!

Show a few more pictures like that and people will be happy to have their holidays in Scarborough

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

Readigrass has become much harder, literally. I was trying to get a trug full ready for the boy this week and a piece went into my finger under the nail like an old fashioned torture device. I’ve cut the nail short, it’s a tiny painful dot, I don’t know if there’s anything in it but it blooming hurts!

 

[Lady Jane]

Readigrass has become much harder, literally. I was trying to get a trug full ready for the boy this week and a piece went into my finger under the nail like an old fashioned torture device. I’ve cut the nail short, it’s a tiny painful dot, I don’t know if there’s anything in it but it blooming hurts!

Hot salt water will draw it out but may take a couple of days. Even if its a bit of dirt needs to come out!

 

[GreyMane]

And that is why I always dive in a wetsuit however warm the water ?

Wow what a thread.

Saw a Tour de France cyclist being interviewed, if they fall off and get "road rash" they are sent into the shower that night with loads of antiseptic and a nailbrush, and have to scrub till there is no gravel left in the wounds. Very painful but better than it going septic.

Also made me remember a magazine article about a holidaymaker who came back from somewhere exotic with a sort of bot fly in their arm, digging it out proved impossible so they had to keep slathering it with an inch of Vaseline to try and suffocate it, until it emerged of its own accord. Headline was "Take my hand, I've a strange-looking parasite..." Sub editor must have been proud of that one...

Feeling a trifle queasy now !

 

[Lady Jane]

Was better when it exploded. There was a whole thread in the club room about it a couple of years ago!

Some of my most cherished photos

Sorry OP I don't want to derail your thread, but it's clear we are all a gruesome bunch

@Michen - you derailed this post for me. Just found your other post - its fantastic & gross. The pic of it when it had just burst!!!!!!

 

[Frumpoon]

Readigrass has become much harder, literally. I was trying to get a trug full ready for the boy this week and a piece went into my finger under the nail like an old fashioned torture device. I’ve cut the nail short, it’s a tiny painful dot, I don’t know if there’s anything in it but it blooming hurts!

Could you just leave it where it is for a few days and let us know when it goes green

 

[PapaverFollis]

One of my MSc course mates came back from Belize with a bot fly larvae in his forehead. Now that was awesome. Less so for him. Centre for Tropical Disease sorted him out eventually. But he took some persuading to go. I think he got quite attached to it. Said he could hear it moving around at night! ??

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

Could you just leave it where it is for a few days and let us know when it goes green

If I thought it was going to be impressive, I would! It’s very minor, I’m afraid.

 

[PurBee]

OP do you have pus yet?

Yesterday i gave it an almighty squeeze, and a pin-head glob of pus appeared. I thought ‘awww at least its trying!’ ?

It’s the tiniest fibre from the thorn, as i saw the thing in my thumb and pulled it out - but it must have left the tiniest tip, that broke on entry, in the thumb. A teeny weeny speck.

However, i think my body has absorbed it and neutralised it as it was itchy last night and isnt sore today. So days of pain, 1 microgram of pus, and unspectacularly, it’s all done! ??

But at least now i know there’s an encouraging captive audience on here should a potential pus incident arise!! ?

 

[Sprat]

One of my MSc course mates came back from Belize with a bot fly larvae in his forehead. Now that was awesome. Less so for him. Centre for Tropical Disease sorted him out eventually. But he took some persuading to go. I think he got quite attached to it. Said he could hear it moving around at night! ??

Now that has made me a bit squeamish!

 

[GreyMane]

Well this is truly horrible but i can join in! My ex husband used to get ulcers on his leg and so we went through a process of seeing doctors, consultants, referals etc until the hospital, St Georges Hyde Pk corner, took him in for Xrays. Saw something on the bone and said they would like to excavate........ after a wait of a few months for a bed they operated and took out a huge amount of bone because it had coral growing in/on it. He had been diving in Hawaii and just nicked himself many years before.

Amazingly, it seems that surgeons are currently testing new implants based on coral (aragonite) to treat damaged joint cartilage in knees
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2302475/How-coral-help-grow-new-knee.html
https://www.cartiheal.com/

 

[Annagain]

Yesterday i gave it an almighty squeeze, and a pin-head glob of pus appeared. I thought ‘awww at least its trying!’ ?

It’s the tiniest fibre from the thorn, as i saw the thing in my thumb and pulled it out - but it must have left the tiniest tip, that broke on entry, in the thumb. A teeny weeny speck.

However, i think my body has absorbed it and neutralised it as it was itchy last night and isnt sore today. So days of pain, 1 microgram of pus, and unspectacularly, it’s all done! ??

But at least now i know there’s an encouraging captive audience on here should a potential pus incident arise!! ?

While I'm glad you're out of pain, I'm very disappointed by the lack of decent pus.

Years ago, I found a lump in my armpit - quite close to my breast. Off I trotted to the GP who was worried enough to send me to the breast clinic. The specialist there took a very quick look and said it was a swollen lymph gland and nothing to worry about so I forgot all about it. 3 years later it suddenly became very angry and sore so back I went to the GP, a different one this time. She looked and said she thought it was basically a big spot and did I mind her giving it a bit of a squeeze. I said no and off she went. 20 minutes later she was still squeezing pus out of it, I've never seen so much. My only regret was I couldn't see what she was doing as I had to turn my head the other way for her to get in the right spot. It's also a bit worrying that a specialist wrongly diagnosed a swollen lymph gland - harmlessly in this instance but it could have been worse.

 

[PurBee]

While I'm glad you're out of pain, I'm very disappointed by the lack of decent pus.

Years ago, I found a lump in my armpit - quite close to my breast. Off I trotted to the GP who was worried enough to send me to the breast clinic. The specialist there took a very quick look and said it was a swollen lymph gland and nothing to worry about so I forgot all about it. 3 years later it suddenly became very angry and sore so back I went to the GP, a different one this time. She looked and said she thought it was basically a big spot and did I mind her giving it a bit of a squeeze. I said no and off she went. 20 minutes later she was still squeezing pus out of it, I've never seen so much. My only regret was I couldn't see what she was doing as I had to turn my head the other way for her to get in the right spot. It's also a bit worrying that a specialist wrongly diagnosed a swollen lymph gland - harmlessly in this instance but it could have been worse.

wow, that matured for 3 years, i can image the amount of pus!
Im glad it turned out to be harmless for you.

Scenarios like yours is why i now lean to always getting a second opinion. My friend with testicular cancer, was told by his regular gp is was just a cyst, my friend described it as painful and growing quickly, i said that doesnt sound cyst-like, get a second opinion, which he did and very quickly was in surgery to remove a very aggressive growing type of testicular cancer, which had already spread to groin lymph nodes and lung, but removing the main tumour dis-armed the mets, and he’s been cancer-free for over a decade. He was only late 20’s when it happened.

 

[PurBee]

Now that has made me a bit squeamish!

A friend of a friend once had a fly fly into his ear. The constant buzzing of it very quickly drove him mad! I had never heard of such a thing, and can imagine the absolute annoyance of this fly wriggling around in my ear canal! ?

 

[cindars]

A friend of a friend once had a fly fly into his ear. The constant buzzing of it very quickly drove him mad! I had never heard of such a thing, and can imagine the absolute annoyance of this fly wriggling around in my ear canal! ?

I had they happen when I had a moped had to have ear syringed very odd feeling could feel it in my ear.

 

[PurBee]

I had they happen when I had a moped had to have ear syringed very odd feeling could feel it in my ear.

Youre brave ? i would have been screaming all the way to the hospital! ?