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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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That my first thought was...

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Welshmaenad · 20/09/2015 23:37

... To wish I'd been videoing this incident for you lot.

Side of my fingernail has been hurting for days, I picked at it a few days ago and a load of hard skin developed. Tonight it was really painful but with no obvious cause, so being the grim beast I am, I sterilised a needle and started poking it.

Poke.

NOTHING.

Then, scratch-slide-accidental poke, and a GALLON of thick greeny-yellow pus came shooting out. So I squeezed it and out shot another gallon.

Seriously, I have no idea where it was hiding because my finger wasn't swollen, but the relief is IMMENSE.

I'm so happy I can go to sleep with a non painful finger, plus the joyous memories of an epic pus-splosion, so happy that I wanted to share the joy.

Night vipers

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shellistar · 21/09/2015 14:48

I had a lump in my arm pit a few days ago. I applied pressure and the pus literally flew across the room. I never found it :-(

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Welshmaenad · 21/09/2015 15:03

I'm unfamiliar with the deployment of the , what are the rules??

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PigletJohn · 21/09/2015 15:26

the klaxon is employed by people on here who have a revolting liking for nasty bodily infections and disgusting things.

For example spiders living in ears, or tapeworms in brains, or pus-filled carbuncles.

It should warn away people who do not share this liking.

Andrewofgg · 22/09/2015 05:07

We all have an Inner Eight Year Old, don't we?

PreemptiveSalvageEngineer · 22/09/2015 05:19

shellistar, perhaps it was dangling from your ear and then you had a date with Cameron Diaz?

stolemyusername · 22/09/2015 05:29

This is what I'm dealing with with DS at the moment - I'm sick of telling him to not bite his nails

AlbertHerbertHawkins · 22/09/2015 08:25

This thread is epic!

HawkEyeTheNoo · 22/09/2015 09:44

This happened to me a few years ago but it was my thumb. I was at work and the constant throbbing was genuinely making me ill. My boss wanted to have a look and it was very swollen and he said I'd have to get rid of it as it looked poisoned... Cue out of his pocket a Swiss Army knife (no sterilization, we maybe picked off some fluff from the knife bit no need for that rubbish in my make orientated job, suck it up bitch and we he started to dig whilst I tried not to cry, we got into the bugger and he told me to squeeze it but I couldn't as it was too sore! The admin lady came in and said oh for heavens sake I'll do it and the thickest puss I have EVER seen came snaking out, as thick as my pinkie, we had to make the hole bigger as it was too sore and going on for too long for me to handle, we could have filled the bottom of a plastic cup with what came out! Two days later I'd forgotten the pain and wanted to do it again childbirth was similar but the bloody thing had healed!

willconcern · 22/09/2015 09:55

I once shut my finger in the car door. It swelled up full of blood. That night it throbbed and throbbed and throbbed (I could feel my pulse in my fingernail), so I decided I had to pierce the nail to relieve it. So I heated up a paperclip on the gas hob and began burning through my nail. It took a while to burn a hole, and was incredibly painful, but when it finally went through a FOUNTAIN of blood shot out, several feet high. And the relief. Oh my god it was good. No puss though, sadly.

willconcern · 22/09/2015 09:56

oh and the smell of burning nail.....

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