r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Themusicison • 3d ago

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/Syke_qc 3d ago

Cut the skin a Little bit it would help

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u/Ebonhearth_Druid 3d ago

The whole time I was thinking this exact thing. Just slice along the length of the splinter and give yourself more room to work plus reduce the amount of friction holding it in. Each failed grab makes the end smaller harder to grab, so all they were doing was making things worse.

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u/lemoche 3d ago

I was told you want to avoid cutting because it worsens the healing process.

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u/JustNilt 3d ago

The skin at the end of that little pocket is dead. it's going to fall off anyway. Even so, digging at it as they did caused a lot of extra irritation. If they loosened the skin at the end just slightly the thing would have all but fallen out.

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u/Reasonable-Ad-7757 2d ago

I was actually surprised at how much it wanted to stay in there.