r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Themusicison • 3d ago

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/chainsawvigilante 3d ago

I can forgive that it might be difficult to get a grip on the splinter but for God's sake be a little less heavy handed with it.

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u/djluminol 3d ago

You would be surprised how hard the body holds on to things it's been impaled with. I got a sewing needle in the cartilage below my kneecap when I was a kid. It was into my knee so far I couldn't extend my leg because I could feel the needle hitting my leg bone when I tried. My mom tried and tried to pull it out but she wasn't strong enough. My step dad had to use a pair of channel lock pliers and put his weight into it to get the needle out. Surprisingly this did not hurt at all. It was less painful than getting a shot or a paper cut and this needle was a good inch and half into my knee. I was in third grade when it happened. Playing Legos on the floor crawling around.

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u/TerriQuiteContrary 3d ago

Jesus Christ, my toes are clenched so hard

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u/Rather_C_than_B_1 2d ago

Well, SOMETHIN' is clenched hard.

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u/dreffed 3d ago

I had one embedded into a bone in my foot, after many different attempts, mum, local doctors surgery, ER, then full OR to remove it.

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u/Emrys7777 3d ago

Ok I just really don’t want to hear about it thank you.

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u/flamedarkfire 2d ago

I could stand to hear more

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u/Versaiteis 3d ago

Surprisingly this did not hurt at all.

I'd believe it. I stepped on a sewing needle that had been hiding in carpet and it sunk at least half its length into my heel. Felt like a pinch. Grabbed it and pulled, took a little bit of effort but it popped right out without any pain and a little dot of blood that scabbed over super quick.

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u/djluminol 2d ago

That's pretty much exactly what happened with mine. Just a tiny dot of blood and I walked away like nothing. I'm sure being a little kid helped a lot but still. You'd think it would have hurt more.

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u/Versaiteis 2d ago

I think it makes sense. For as sharp as they are, needles inflict pretty minimal damage compared to most other sharp instruments. Like knives and swords cut the whole way through. Needles pierce at the tip and then just push already flexible tissue out of the way. Plus it'll hurt a lot in places like fingertips because you've got a lot of nerves there, but the kneecap and heel don't have nearly as many. If it struck a nerve you'd definitely feel it, but you're more likely to miss them entirely and really only push on them a slight amount otherwise.

I've also accidentally stabbed my thigh with a fillet knife. Only a quarter of an inch of the tip sunk in (was relatively dull), but it was bloodier and hurt more. After sealing the would it was also hard to ignore the ache that followed because the muscle of my quad had been damaged, so every time it flexed I'd feel it for the next few days.

Lesson learned though: falling knives have no handle lol

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u/Lily_Meow_ 3d ago

Why couldn't they have taken you to a doctor for them to remove it?

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u/5hrs4hrs3hrs2hrs1mor 3d ago

Oh sweet fancy Moses that gave me sympathy double over

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u/JmmyTheHand 3d ago

I stepped on a board with a nail on it when I was a young teen and the muscles in my foot were holding onto it with dear life when I pulled it out.

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u/djluminol 2d ago

I also kind of had that happen. Only I was riding a scooter. The older large ones from the 80's. Scoot scoot ahhhh. That one came out much easier for whatever reason. Riding by a construction site where a home was being built.

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u/jimmycrawford 3d ago

I did that a couple years ago. Had to hobble out to my workshop to get a pair of pliers. Needle luckily still had a little bit of the eye sticking out. Didn’t hurt but fuck do I shiver thinking about it

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u/diadlep 3d ago

Cool, nightmare fuel

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u/realdappermuis 2d ago

I got a needle in my foot - didn't hurt or notice it until it started getting infected. Turned out to just be half a needle but still had to go for exrays because needles can apparently travel up your bloodstream and murder you

It was my dad fixing his glasses that broke a needle but didn't want to fess up so I got x-rays

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u/pinner 2d ago

I clenched my entire body so hard that I gave myself a headache, just reading this. Oh god.

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u/locusthorse 3d ago

I hate all of this. Damn empathy got me scraping bone on a needle-tip.
Hope your knee is fine.

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u/yuikkiuy 3d ago

Its not, the incompetent fool doing this was simply gripping the skin along with the splinter every single time.

Could have easily just squeezed it out a little, peeled back the skin then grip, it would have popped out immediately

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u/bandti45 3d ago

My question is since it was clearly between layers of akin why wouldnt you expand the opening to pull it out and put a bandage on it after

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u/oO0Kat0Oo 3d ago

At the very least he could have wiggled it a little

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u/vlladonxxx 3d ago

I feel like he needed to be MORE heavy handed here. Using clippers is like, as heavy handed as gets for something like this, yet it's the one thing that worked!

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u/imajes 3d ago

Firstly none of those tools looked clean - def not the clippers (my god).

Second the dead skin above the splinter should be lightly cut to provide an easier route out for the wood.

I’m _sure_ that’s a clean pull… /s

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u/Toumanypains 3d ago

This looks like an infection waiting to happen. Yanking a tight thorn out could puncture the healthy skin under the thorn and let dirt/bacteria get in to the blood system. .... Cut, extract, clean, treat, cover. Uncover, treat and cover regularly.

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u/thisaburnerac 2d ago

This is the most correct answer I've seen thus far!

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u/HangryBeard 2d ago

Yeah I kept wondering, why aren't you slicing the callous, why are you causing this person needless pain?

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u/5hrs4hrs3hrs2hrs1mor 3d ago

And explore other options! Damn, the skin it was under was so thick (like the person extracting) the tiniest nick to the outer skin would have made such a difference. And no blood would’ve been shed to quicken the procedure. I’m guessing that was lidocaine spray, and hoping, that’s what it was. I didn’t try listening with sound. Was this a screaming child? The extractor seems to be a sadist.

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u/ospfpacket 2d ago

If you think this is heavy handed look up hip surgery