I've always been fine with needles. I also watched the fourth and final wedge resection (ingrown toenail op) that I had. The one where they dig out the nail bed. That was fun.
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I watch the entire thing.
Cause what else is there to do while you are there.
I can watch anything up to the point I get a local, then I have to stop. Something about watching someone clean and suture my flesh when I can't feel it weirds me the hell out.
Well I guess I don't have to stop watching, I'm not gonna pass out or nothing. But it's still weird.
I really like watching my own medical procedures? Maybe I'm weird?
I watched some guy put a screw in my jaw with a socket wrench. That was fun.
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Blood doesn't worry me so much but when they put the needle in (or the stitches) i have to look away.
When i cut my hand recently it was interesting to see how deep it was and the layers inside but i couldn't watch the doc put the stitches in when it was numb. Wierd.
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Slightly gross personal medical story
When I was in my late teens, I needed some cosmetic surgery, and I don't mean some vanity nose job (for starters, have you seen my nose?). No, I had suffered a series of particularly insidious infections and abscesses on my jaw, to the extent that basically all the flesh and fat between the skin and my jawbone was either so damaged or scarred that it wasn't clear if it could, you know, actually do the jobs of supporting bloodflow and nerve support to that area of my face. There was a serious discussion about how in a few years, untreated, that the skin and remaining flesh in that part of my face was at risk of dying, rotting and sloughing of my face, leaving me with exposed bone as a facial feature.
This was considered a less-than-ideal outcome.
So I had a flesh graft. I had sub sub-cutaneous tissue moved from my hip to my chin so the skin didn't adhere directly to the jawbone so my face didn't rot and fall off.
But the whole thing was done under local, and my doctor wore glasses and I had bright lights shone at my face, so I got to watch the whole thing in miniature reflected in the lens of his glasses. It was like watching a thumbnail video of one of those gory medical procedure videos in stereo, except it's happening to your own face.
When I was in my late teens, I needed some cosmetic surgery, and I don't mean some vanity nose job (for starters, have you seen my nose?). No, I had suffered a series of particularly insidious infections and abscesses on my jaw, to the extent that basically all the flesh and fat between the skin and my jawbone was either so damaged or scarred that it wasn't clear if it could, you know, actually do the jobs of supporting bloodflow and nerve support to that area of my face. There was a serious discussion about how in a few years, untreated, that the skin and remaining flesh in that part of my face was at risk of dying, rotting and sloughing of my face, leaving me with exposed bone as a facial feature.
This was considered a less-than-ideal outcome.
So I had a flesh graft. I had sub sub-cutaneous tissue moved from my hip to my chin so the skin didn't adhere directly to the jawbone so my face didn't rot and fall off.
But the whole thing was done under local, and my doctor wore glasses and I had bright lights shone at my face, so I got to watch the whole thing in miniature reflected in the lens of his glasses. It was like watching a thumbnail video of one of those gory medical procedure videos in stereo, except it's happening to your own face.
Anyway, I thought it was kinda neat.
Wait, so, you had extensive infections and abscesses on your face and the resultant damage was bad enough that you need corrective plastic surgery, and you're still that fucking handsome?
I have no issue watching blood pour out of me due to an actual injury or whatnot, but as soon as I see that blood being collected I start to wig out skittle and have to concentrate on thinking about puppies or something instead.
I have no issue watching blood pour out of me due to an actual injury or whatnot, but as soon as I see that blood being collected I start to wig out skittle and have to concentrate on thinking about puppies or something instead.
See for me it's the opposite. One is a totally controlled environment, but if I, say, get up from a rugby tackle to have a friend tell me I'm gushing blood from my head, I might flip the fuck out.
Well, you know it's the rainy part of summer when you've had to help your little sister get two huntsmen out of her room.
And then, an hour later, when you go to bed there's an even bigger one sitting on the side of your bedside drawer. And you go to get a container and some cardboard so you can throw it outside, but when you get back, it's disappeared.
i had a pretty bad dental abscess with heaps of bone around my tooth eaten away to the point that my dentist had to scrape out dead bits deep enough that he couldnt see them
instead he kept the anesthetic low and poked around inside my face and if he hit healthy bone it was fine but bad bits would hurt like hell
so hed listen for my stifled cries as indication to go to town scraping that spot clean which was even more incredibly painful and felt like he was scooping out the inside of my face
terrible incentive to let him know where to focus but i felt super brave for keeping up my informative whimpers
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So the bushfire going on right now in the north of Perth makes the one we dealt with a few weeks ago look like child's play.
Our's burnt out about 120 hectares in Whiteman Park, threatening about 50 homes.
This one so far has already burnt out nearly six thousand hectares, and has travelled all the way northwest from Bullsbrook almost to Alkimos/Yanchep, burning across the Gnangara forest & pine plantations. It's moving thirty meters a minute and is still completely out of control. They've saved over a hundred homes so far but thousands more are still in danger. Started at 10am about twelve hours ago.
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The path the fire had taken as of about 3pm
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Do not, I repeat DO NOT, get burned, man.
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I also had some facial trauma which required unpleasant surgical intervention.
when i was five a dog bit my face and opened the side of it up from just above (beside) my right eye to just below my mouth, straight through to the bone.
The kicker was that it took nearly six hours to get medical attention. By that time I'd lost some blood and they didn't want to risk a general, also they needed to know when they had trimmed off enough of the dead blackened flesh and were starting to cut into the living flesh so they skipped a local too.
The reasoning being that once they'd finished stretching the flesh back over the resulting hole in my face and given me enough blood they would put me out for three to four days till my face settled (and my eye hole was no longer an inch under my eye) and i wouldn't remember any of it.
To this day i remember every second of it. Still, they did an excellent job under the circumstances. PMH ftw.
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In a less facetious vein ...
I did some gardening on the weekend which included hacking back the hibiscus tree that regularly threatens to engulf my small backyard.
After some deft trimming I noticed some agitated paper wasps flying about where I'd removed my last branch. Examining the branch I realised that I'd taken down their nest.
Unlike most people I know, I consider paper wasps very helpfull in the control of caterpillers and pests in my garden and never try to get rid of them.
I got the branch with the nest and stuck it back in the tree near where I'd taken it from. The wasps found it again and have resumed tending their young with no hard feelings.
In a less facetious vein ...
I did some gardening on the weekend which included hacking back the hibiscus tree that regularly threatens to engulf my small backyard.
After some deft trimming I noticed some agitated paper wasps flying about where I'd removed my last branch. Examining the branch I realised that I'd taken down their nest.
Unlike most people I know, I consider paper wasps very helpfull in the control of caterpillers and pests in my garden and never try to get rid of them.
I got the branch with the nest and stuck it back in the tree near where I'd taken it from. The wasps found it again and have resumed tending their young with no hard feelings.
That's cool of you to put the nest back. Also, you're lucky you didn't get stung. If that had been me, I'd have almost certainly been stung, and I'm allergic so that would have been fun.
Honestly I'm always amazed that they catch as many arsonists as they do.
I have a few friends in various country volunteer fire departments, and wouldn't you know it, the kinds of people stupid enough to light bushfires are usually also the kinds of people that are stupid enough to boast about it...
Anyone heard of this? Just had it come up on my facebook feed, some Aussie zombie movie. Looks alright and the first aid kit got a good chuckle out of me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGdeE0RiTdc
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They aren't as outwardly aggressive as other kinds of wasps and generally don't sting unless threatened, but I don't imagine it would take a whole lot to piss one off.
They aren't as outwardly aggressive as other kinds of wasps and generally don't sting unless threatened, but I don't imagine it would take a whole lot to piss one off.
Zactly. They're fine as long as you don't threaten them.
'Bout ten years ago I put in a dozen or so cherry tomatoes in the vegie garden back of the place I was living in and they came up as thick as anything. When I'd go out to harvest some for dinner the wasps used to follow my hands and when I parted the bushes they'd duck in to look for caterpillers. As long as you move slow and don't try to swat at them they are as cool as anything. Oh, don't go near their nest though.
You can see that a few of the wasps in that pic I took have their wings ninty degrees to their bodies. Warning sign. I was pretty close to get the pic but move slow and watch their body language, respect their requests to back up and it's cool bananas.
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I've been vastly overspending all this time. I feel so fiscally irresponsible and inefficient now.
Cause what else is there to do while you are there.
Satans..... hints.....
Long story short I shot my blood all over the nurse's lab coat because she got her steps mixed up and wasn't quick enough.
gonna tap out for a bit
There's always subtle flirting with the phlebotomist. You can tell pretty quickly if you're any good by how viciously she jabs your arm...
Everything. In a bucket.
But don't worry guys, I have a new year's resolution to cut back my hahahaha but seriously someone help me.
That just means you're not my type, dear.
Well I guess I don't have to stop watching, I'm not gonna pass out or nothing. But it's still weird.
I watched some guy put a screw in my jaw with a socket wrench. That was fun.
When i cut my hand recently it was interesting to see how deep it was and the layers inside but i couldn't watch the doc put the stitches in when it was numb. Wierd.
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is a heretic.
This was considered a less-than-ideal outcome.
So I had a flesh graft. I had sub sub-cutaneous tissue moved from my hip to my chin so the skin didn't adhere directly to the jawbone so my face didn't rot and fall off.
But the whole thing was done under local, and my doctor wore glasses and I had bright lights shone at my face, so I got to watch the whole thing in miniature reflected in the lens of his glasses. It was like watching a thumbnail video of one of those gory medical procedure videos in stereo, except it's happening to your own face.
Anyway, I thought it was kinda neat.
Wait, so, you had extensive infections and abscesses on your face and the resultant damage was bad enough that you need corrective plastic surgery, and you're still that fucking handsome?
You prick!
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See for me it's the opposite. One is a totally controlled environment, but if I, say, get up from a rugby tackle to have a friend tell me I'm gushing blood from my head, I might flip the fuck out.
And then, an hour later, when you go to bed there's an even bigger one sitting on the side of your bedside drawer. And you go to get a container and some cardboard so you can throw it outside, but when you get back, it's disappeared.
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Then set the house on fire.
Then nuke it from orbit.
You can never be too sure.
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instead he kept the anesthetic low and poked around inside my face and if he hit healthy bone it was fine but bad bits would hurt like hell
so hed listen for my stifled cries as indication to go to town scraping that spot clean which was even more incredibly painful and felt like he was scooping out the inside of my face
terrible incentive to let him know where to focus but i felt super brave for keeping up my informative whimpers
Our's burnt out about 120 hectares in Whiteman Park, threatening about 50 homes.
This one so far has already burnt out nearly six thousand hectares, and has travelled all the way northwest from Bullsbrook almost to Alkimos/Yanchep, burning across the Gnangara forest & pine plantations. It's moving thirty meters a minute and is still completely out of control. They've saved over a hundred homes so far but thousands more are still in danger. Started at 10am about twelve hours ago.
It's not anywhere near our house, we're south of Ellenbrook, and the fire is already nearly to the coast. No danger here.
Posting only because people might be unaware and have family/friends in the area.
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I also had some facial trauma which required unpleasant surgical intervention.
The kicker was that it took nearly six hours to get medical attention. By that time I'd lost some blood and they didn't want to risk a general, also they needed to know when they had trimmed off enough of the dead blackened flesh and were starting to cut into the living flesh so they skipped a local too.
The reasoning being that once they'd finished stretching the flesh back over the resulting hole in my face and given me enough blood they would put me out for three to four days till my face settled (and my eye hole was no longer an inch under my eye) and i wouldn't remember any of it.
To this day i remember every second of it. Still, they did an excellent job under the circumstances. PMH ftw.
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is a heretic.
There has got to be somebody going around lighting successive fires.
Quite likely, yes.
Incarceration just doesn't work.
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is a heretic.
I did some gardening on the weekend which included hacking back the hibiscus tree that regularly threatens to engulf my small backyard.
After some deft trimming I noticed some agitated paper wasps flying about where I'd removed my last branch. Examining the branch I realised that I'd taken down their nest.
Unlike most people I know, I consider paper wasps very helpfull in the control of caterpillers and pests in my garden and never try to get rid of them.
I got the branch with the nest and stuck it back in the tree near where I'd taken it from. The wasps found it again and have resumed tending their young with no hard feelings.
http://i.imgur.com/70Hxn67.jpg (4.7mb photo)
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is a heretic.
That's cool of you to put the nest back. Also, you're lucky you didn't get stung. If that had been me, I'd have almost certainly been stung, and I'm allergic so that would have been fun.
I have a few friends in various country volunteer fire departments, and wouldn't you know it, the kinds of people stupid enough to light bushfires are usually also the kinds of people that are stupid enough to boast about it...
ahahahahahaha
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They aren't as outwardly aggressive as other kinds of wasps and generally don't sting unless threatened, but I don't imagine it would take a whole lot to piss one off.
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This is a Australian Zombe Short Film, it's less fun.
'Bout ten years ago I put in a dozen or so cherry tomatoes in the vegie garden back of the place I was living in and they came up as thick as anything. When I'd go out to harvest some for dinner the wasps used to follow my hands and when I parted the bushes they'd duck in to look for caterpillers. As long as you move slow and don't try to swat at them they are as cool as anything. Oh, don't go near their nest though.
You can see that a few of the wasps in that pic I took have their wings ninty degrees to their bodies. Warning sign. I was pretty close to get the pic but move slow and watch their body language, respect their requests to back up and it's cool bananas.
That zombie movie looks pretty good.
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is a heretic.