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If you want to see spot squeezing, popping or videos showing the removal of blackheads - this is the place for you.

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Momentous day

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Reallybadidea · 05/01/2022 14:15

In 1992 I was at school and had a newly-sharpened pencil in my pocket (not recommended). Someone flung a door open on me and the tip of the pencil lodged itself in my thigh. I couldn't seem to get it out, the school nurse assured me that I wouldn't die of lead poisoning and so it has remained there ever since.

Until today.

On Friday after a shower, I noticed it for the first time in ages and so I had a bit of a squeeze. Nothing much happened, but there was a bit of bleeding and I thought I could feel the tip. It must have reminded my body that it was there, because it swelled up a bit and after a bit more squeezing, out it came!

It feels like a big moment, but I've just told me son and he was distinctly so I wanted to share it with a group of people who would understand

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haveyouopenedyourbowelstoday · 05/01/2022 14:16

Wow! No pictures??

SameToo · 05/01/2022 14:17

Pictures!!!

wherethecrawdadsare · 05/01/2022 14:33

Amazing! Obvs you're going to keep it too - along with discarded teeth etc.????

FlibbertyGiblets · 05/01/2022 14:47

Well done you, 30 years!

Thethingswedidanddidntdo · 05/01/2022 14:49

The exact same thing happened to me 2 weeks ago except it was in my finger. Also about 30 years. I showed my toddler and he grabbed at it and dropped it, so no pics, otherwise I would have done a thread too

DobbyTheHouseElk · 05/01/2022 15:10

Wow! 30 years of pencil living within your leg!
Was there pus or did it pop out? Is there now a hole? Aren’t bodies amazing

Blossom64265 · 05/01/2022 15:28

Did it leave behind a “tattoo”?

My childhood pencil stabbing didn’t leave anything solid embedded, just a dot that has endured for 40 years.

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Reallybadidea · 05/01/2022 17:23

Thank you all for sharing this moment with me

I'm very sad to say that there are no pictures, because I dropped it And I was in the toilets at work and there was no way I was going to scrabble around on the floor looking for it

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DedafalalalalalusBloom · 05/01/2022 17:46

Oooh that's lovely.

Years ago I absentmindedly kicked a bin bag which had broken glass in it. I knew there was glass in there but somehow thought kicking it in sandalled feet would be fine.

Immediately No. Claret all over, as Guy Ritchie would have no doubt said.

My lovely colleague dunked my still spraying foot in a bucket of water, gave it the once over and declared no glass left in the wound. Wrapped it up nicely with an impressive amount of toilet roll and sellotape and I got on with my day. It was a busy day and I'm a florist and if we stopped every time we cut ourselves nothing would ever get done.

About two years later after investigating a persistently itchy spot on the side of my foot ( I honestly didn't make the connection), I took a Stanley knife to the knobbly bit by my little toe and out popped an inch long shard of glass.

Bodies are amazing.

Plump82 · 05/01/2022 19:18

@DedafalalalalalusBloom

Oooh that's lovely.

Years ago I absentmindedly kicked a bin bag which had broken glass in it. I knew there was glass in there but somehow thought kicking it in sandalled feet would be fine.

Immediately No. Claret all over, as Guy Ritchie would have no doubt said.

Bodies are amazing.

I have a similar story about a shard of glass. I broke a glass and thought I'd cleaned everything up, but can't have. The the glass I'm assuming must have been super sharp for me not to realise I'd stood on anything. About 3 years later I was in work and started feeling a weird sensation in the ball of my foot. Got home and had a little prod and it shot out and landed a few feet in front of me. No blood, no pus, no nothing!

Santaisstilleatingmincepies · 05/01/2022 19:21

Slight derail but guess how many miles a line would be off 1 pencil??

Blueducks · 05/01/2022 19:22

That’s amazing!! I’ve had a pencil tip in the palm of my hand since art class in 1994. I might have to start poking it!

WakeUpLockie · 05/01/2022 19:30

Wooooow these stories are amazing, I’m so jealous! So satisfying! My mum had the pencil lead for years thing too.

Best I’ve got is that this time last year DH got a splinter from an old plank, had it stuck in there for about 10 months and one day I had the honour of getting it out finally. One squeeze and it finally shot out. So satisying. But not as impressive.

DedafalalalalalusBloom · 05/01/2022 20:19

Oh I don't know. Splinters are great. Was it pus filled at least?

Talipesmum · 06/01/2022 19:44

Oh wow, momentous indeed!!

At primary school, a girl called Kirsty had a big knobbly bump on her knee. It had been there for as long as we could all remember (probably only about 4-5 years 😀). She fell over in the playground and knocked it, and it opened up and a little lump of gravel came out and THERE WAS A HOLLOW CRATER in her knee. It was amazing.

waitingpatientlyforspring · 07/01/2022 18:01

How wonderful!

I have a gross story that didn't as take long to have an ending.

It was 1985 and I was playing with a bit of a rubber (eraser for the non British). It was about the size of half a grape, bigger than a pea I would say. I was (don't ask me why, I was 7), sticking it in my nostril and pushing it back out. Until I couldn't push it out again! It was stuck for a few months. I never told anyone but do remember getting upset as I imagined it travelling to my heart and killing me (yes, I'm still a hypochondriac 😂). It eventually broke down and came out but think it took a few months (might have been days/weeks).

Prokupatuscrakedatus · 07/01/2022 20:09

Thank you OP for sharing!

That reminded me of the pain and swelling little sister had under her big toe when she was about 8. DM took a bowl and made her have a foot bath with very hot water and Kernseife (basic unscented kitchen soap used for scrubbing and cleaning). The she took a needle (first run through the top of a lighted candle) and opend up the area. Out came the broken off corner of a box for a MC (about 1 cm x 0,5 cm).

stupiduser · 08/01/2022 20:57

@Santaisstilleatingmincepies what is the answer? Don't leave us hanging!

catwomando · 27/01/2022 00:11

Congratulations on your new arrival.

RomComPhooey · 27/01/2022 00:19

I have trapped gravel in my leg below my left knee, 37 years and counting. I hope it will make a reappearance in my lifetime and while my eyesight is still good enough to enjoy the show. 🤞

BlissfullyIgnorant · 27/01/2022 00:34

That sounds sooo satisfying but disappointing because we can't share your joy. Could you pop another one in and give us an action replay?

Cstring · 31/01/2022 23:23

Well done OP 👏🏻 A truly great day for you!
I once had an ingrown hair that remained stubbornly ingrown for a good few months, I had forgotten about it, until one day it appeared to have a little black pin prick on the top. So I did the only decent thing andI squeezed, and a 3 inch hair came out wrapped in a lovely ‘Pearl like’ bit of sebum. ‘‘Twas a thing of beauty.
Nothing like your 30 years though.

FuzzyPuffling · 02/02/2022 18:24

I had a sliver of glass (from a greenhouse pane) in my thumb for over 25 years. The delight when it came out....

RobertSmithsLipstick · 07/02/2022 04:44

Absolutely amazing earlobe cyst thingy.
One of the best I've ever seen!
10 minutes of productive squeezing.

RobertSmithsLipstick · 07/02/2022 04:44

Oh damn!
I meant to make a new post.

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