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[roberts]

Well quite a strange evening, the scare on my hand just gave birth to a piece of glass.

It's obviously side window glass from my car crash last July, I can't quite believe it, very bemused by it all. I mean the nurse had a good look around cleaned it all up and stitched me back together.

As you know I work with my hands cutting material etc. so I often bang my knuckles, cut my fingers etc. However, since the crash I have often had a small lump at the end of the scare, but never thought anything of it though. I simple assumed it was because I had knocked the scare and since it is weak tissue, so I’ve ignored it.

But no… I certainly was wrong !!

There's been a cut on the top of the bump for about a week now and today it opened up and started bleeding, so I had a little poke around (purely out of curiosity) and to my amazement a nice piece of glass popped out.

Ever happened to anybody else?

[Calman]

scar, not scare -im sorry it really annoyed me cant say thats ever happened but i did once lose a skittle in my knee when i feel over and split it years ago.

[yeti21586]

thats amazing!!!

how big was the piece of glass

[shorty]

cut myself on a shard of glass at work one nite and a week later a tiny piece of glass came out of my hand...found that was the reason why my hand hurt every time i pushed down on the cut aha

[roofless]

I've still got glass coming out of my arm and hand every couple of months - did you have any tissue atatched to it? its like your body tries to envelop the glass

I've also recently pulled 10cm of stitch out of my arm - thats nearly 3 years old now

[roberts]

thats amazing!!!

how big was the piece of glass

Well massive, for a bit that's been stuck in and around my knuckle for over a year now... about 3mm x 3mm x 5mm, I'm stunned!!

I've still got glass coming out of my arm and hand every couple of months - did you have any tissue atatched to it? its like your body tries to envelop the glass

I've also recently pulled 10cm of stitch out of my arm - thats nearly 3 years old now

I think you win there then and it came out as clean as a whistle...

[Eatsleepdrink]

Not too suprising, my friends dad had a horrific car crash about 14 years ago and he still gets bits of glass coming out. Horrible really.

[Figs122uk]

Wow. ts amazing how bodies deal with things!!!

[petwar]

i was once sat in the bath and noticed a load of little black dots on my legs so i had a little pick and it turned out they where the spikes off hawthorn bushes about 3/4" long! there was about 10-15 of them, a few weeks before i had a run in with a hawthorn bush whilst on my trail bike and didnt notice a thing at the time! bodies are strange!

[roberts]

Wow. ts amazing how bodies deal with things!!!

Yeah, exactly what I thought.

I didn't listen in Science, no doubt they would have told me about this if I had.

[mrslaphead]

I had an op on my elbow ten weeks ago and I keep getting a so called disposable stitch peeping put for a few days and then going back in.

And a mate of mine broke his ankle when a brick fell on him while he was working on a building site.
Two months later when he was back at his real job (RAF) and still in pain they re xrayed it and found a lump of brick
4 inches long. Good old NHS

[roofless]

I had an op on my elbow ten weeks ago and I keep getting a so called disposable stitch peeping put for a few days and then going back in.

you have to grab the end and give it a yank - i thought it would be just a little bit of stitch - but it just kept running out these disposable stitches they use clearly dont.

[mrslaphead]

I had an op on my elbow ten weeks ago and I keep getting a so called disposable stitch peeping put for a few days and then going back in.

you have to grab the end and give it a yank - i thought it would be just a little bit of stitch - but it just kept running out these disposable stitches they use clearly dont.

I did that on one about 4 weeks after the op and it opened up the scar and it went a bit funny. (Might be because the scar is directly on top of another scar
so it didnt knit well at first)
Next time it peeps out I will have another go

[Dan]

its like your body tries to envelop the glass

It's not 'like' that, that's exactly what happens. Calcification or something or other.

I found stitches left after an operation, not disolving ones but some that should have been removed. They were through my fingernail and preventing the wound closing properly at the edges so I pulled them out and it healed and the dead nail came off. This was weeks after the stitches had actually been removed though and I knew for sure they weren't still meant to be there, the nurse just missed them because they were buried in the superglue. Don't go pulling at sub-Q disolving stitches after only 10 weeks, they can take months to disolve. If they are in a tissue that doesn't get much blood flow they will hang around a while. They are meant to be there for a good while to make sure your deep tissues are properly healed.

[ferrit]

i was once sat in the bath and noticed a load of little black dots on my legs so i had a little pick and it turned out they where the spikes off hawthorn bushes about 3/4" long! there was about 10-15 of them, a few weeks before i had a run in with a hawthorn bush whilst on my trail bike and didnt notice a thing at the time! bodies are strange!

I had exactly the same but in the top of my head, hurt like hell for weeks and weeks and wouldn't heal properly eventually as I scratched the top of my head a thorn came out just shy of an inch long.