Sporners AIBU - DP with a TWO year old blackthorn in his knuckle

[Pantone363]

Tree surgeon. Its just sat there floating around. When he makes a fist I can SEE it under the skin. You can move it around with your finger. A big lumpy blackthorn just sitting there waiting to come out...

AIBU to think he should let me get it out (not sure how, would probably need a scalpel). He 'hasn't got time to go to the GP'...can you imagine the gunk that will come out of it!

Omg blue!!! That is amazing.

My DH has 2 pieces of glass stuck in his knuckles from when he was a dipshit he smashed a mirror when he was a teenager. They've been in there 10 years and you can move them about and I also want to cut them out. Luckily we barely touch any more so I hardly ever think about them any more

Is the white bit pus? If so, it's definitely your dh who is the weirdo for not wanting to let it out.

how you haven't just stabbed a needle into it whilst he sleeps i can't even fathom!

My dh has had fibre glass stuck in his eyeball for about 15yrs. I'm never going near it!

My grandad had shrapnel in his neck for 50 years; you could wobble it around. Very entertaining for a young child.

Why do I never have anything like this? I had a couple of splinters in my hand last week from gardening and I was so hopeful that they'd go gross but they just came out .

Yes ICJump was just coming back to suggest magnesium sulphate paste (from the chemist). It won't hurt so he might let you do that. Although it may erupt when he's away from you - then again it's perfect timing with the long weekend coming up, you're more likely to be there for the crucial moment (DH's carbuncle erupted and opened like a massive crater in his neck, there was pus all over the computer chair which I'd made him sit in due to its proximity to the anglepoise lamp )

shameful. His eye?! I'm not sure even the most dedicated sporner would have a go at an eyeball!

I certainly won't bumble 🙈

Is he a deep sleeper OP?

I got a splinter of wood from a door frame stuck under my fingernail once. I couldn't get it out but a few days later I gently pressed the nail and it came shooting out. It was most satisfying!

Today I managed to squeeze a blackhead out of my cat's lip. I'd been trying for the last few days and it just wouldn't burst (and obviously there's only so much squeezing a cat will put up with!). But today it finally did! Quite a lot of stuff came out considering it had just been a little black dot. I don't think my cat quite understood my joy!

I had some remnants of stitches work themselves out of my belly button about a year after having them removed after a laparoscopy. It was strangely satisfying to tease out a out 2cm of blue wiry thread. I might have to look into this sporn thing.

OMG Crimson that sounds insanely satisfying!! I had a wisdom tooth taken out, and they told me when I woke up after the anaesthetic that there was a bit that had broken off that would probably either reabsorb into my body (!) or work its way out. Several weeks later I could feel something sharp in my gum, and over the course of a few days a shard of tooth gradually emerged until it was just about hanging on, like a wobbly milk tooth. THE PURE SATISFACTION of getting hold of it with tweezers, feeling it "unplug" and pulling it out the final few millimetres was indescribable.

I was home alone and was very disappointed to have nobody to share it with. Kept the shard in an egg cup to show DH later. He wasn't impressed.

I have a small stone in my foot that's been there since I was 8...I'm 40 now .

Alohamora where do you live?
We could do a mumsnet live sporn feed and tease it out!

I live far, far away! It's quite happy where it is I think and is the result of a river paddling accident.

Ooh Crimson - I had that, about a year after laparoscopy. My belly button swelled up and got really red and hot, I poked it with a knitting needle and loads of pus came out - over several days and eventually an old stitch appeared. It was brilliant - if only sporn threads had been around then

My dad has the end of a pencil in his back from when he was a kid.

I have a bit of glass on my finger from a few months ago, and after reading this thread I'm beginning to realise that it will be there forever.

My sister also has a stone in her forehead she got when she was about six - it's like a black dot but hard - you can feel it is a stone. She is sixty now - I've asked her to let me dig it out - she won't

My Dad was brilliant though - he used to get splinters all the time because of his work (sometimes metal, sometimes wood) and he used to save them until he got home and then shout out 'where's my splinter girl with her needle' and I'd come running - my Dad totally understood me

How, HOW can you people have all this stuff in you and resist the urge to pick cut it out?!