Thread: Picked a bit of windsceen out my head today from52 years ago

Originally Posted by POD

There was a family story about one of my uncle stepping on a needle and it coming out at his shoulder decades later.
An interesting one regarding things migrating through the body, when I was studying I read something about ingrown hairs, apparently it is not unknown for a hair to grow under the skin and a hair from a scalp follicle can eventually emerge some distance away such as halfway down the person's back. Perhaps that is why at age 40 all the hair from your forehead disappears and comes out your ears and nose.

MATE!!! Why did you just post that!!

Goes to mirror to check back as a distinctive depreciation in upper hair noticeable.

My brother has tattooing (bits of paint, sound deadening material, etc.) on his shoulder from when his car door hit him in an accident, a plastic surgeon says it would cost thousands to fix, all because it wasn't cleaned out properly when he was taken to hospital all those years ago.

Less dramatically, I had a green mark and lump in my knee for many years, from landing on a colouring in pencil while a child, it took more than 10 years to dissolve and disappear IIRC.

Many years back in grade school , I was stabbed in the hand with a pencil. The tip must have broken off in the skin. Til very recently I had a black tattoo to remind me of this. Then a few months ago it began to scab up then once the skin healed , no sign of the black , or even a scar at all. Now I only have memories of school !

My Uncle Karl had a piece of shrapnel in his back from Bullecourt. The docs said it was too close to the spine to safely remove. It didn't seem to worry him at all.

Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

My brother has tattooing (bits of paint, sound deadening material, etc.) on his shoulder from when his car door hit him in an accident, a plastic surgeon says it would cost thousands to fix, all because it wasn't cleaned out properly when he was taken to hospital all those years ago.

Less dramatically, I had a green mark and lump in my knee for many years, from landing on a colouring in pencil while a child, it took more than 10 years to dissolve and disappear IIRC.

I had a bit of gravel come out of my shoulder about 10 years after a stack on a motorbike. They sure as hell had a good go at cleaning that out - I still re-live the feeling of that Head Nurse with a scrubbing brush! I always reckoned she must've been jilted by a bikie in her early years, and took it out on poor old me!

Originally Posted by donh54

I had a bit of gravel come out of my shoulder about 10 years after a stack on a motorbike. They sure as hell had a good go at cleaning that out - I still re-live the feeling of that Head Nurse with a scrubbing brush! I always reckoned she must've been jilted by a bikie in her early years, and took it out on poor old me!

I think you're right about being jilted by a bikie as they are supposed to anaesthetise the area first.