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[–] [email protected] 118 points 6 days ago (17 children)

I've had one of those super long hairs be ingrown. It just coiled in on itself. I thought it was a black spot, so I dug it out with a sharp pair of tweezers. Once I got it and started pulling, it just kept going. Hair and puss came out and it felt terrible. Once I got it out it healed very quickly and felt much better, so I'm glad I did it, but that feeling still creeps me out.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 6 days ago (10 children)

I needed to have "under the skin" stitches removed for a surgery that went across my throat from almost ear to ear. For whatever reason they did not use the type that dissolve but I was told that they would be removed after a few weeks. When they did, the process was to cut the knot and proceed to pull what seemed like a two foot long and thick hair out of me. It was like a magician pulling handkerchiefs from his hat. It just would not end and it felt awful.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Heh, I had to have like 200 stitches removed from when I had my hand crushed and we got snowed in two appointments in a row so I just got scissors and tweezers and went to work.

The best way was every other stitch you cut.

Takes forever if you do them one at a time, but the draggy feeling just gets to be way too much if you go for three.

Makes me shiver just thinking about 3.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

what does "snowed" mean in this context?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Actual snow from the sky covering the roads till they shut them down

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

When it snows so much that the roads become undrivable.

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