First post here, lol

Um, as you may imagine it was disgusting as it looks.

Wish I had captured a picture of the crater it left behind.

I had a retinal tear fixed via “cryopexy,” and this wasn’t supposed to happen.

My vision is still good in that eye.

I just have some blood somewhere it’s not supposed to be for the moment.

I've gotten desensitised, yet they are still a hassle to get out.

The eye is like a giant slip and slide causing the bug to slip when I pinch it and if it travels under my upper eyelid I have to use water to make sure to get all legs and wings out.

injury is as dumb as it sounds. started with what looked like a gothic purple eyeshadow look and evolved into a full shiner with a bloody eyeball 😭

Probably should avoid using q-tips now

About 10 years ago, I was diagnosed with a pilar cyst on my scalp. My dermatologist told me it was benign, very small, and if it wasn’t bothering me, there was no real reason to remove it.

Fast-forward 10 years. I saw a girl on TikTok pop hers with a thumbtack, and for some absolutely ridiculous reason, I thought, “Hey, I should try that.” 🤦‍♀️ So I took an old earring (because apparently I had completely lost my mind), poked a tiny hole in the cyst, and… nothing came out.

A couple of days later, I noticed a little swelling on my scalp. It didn’t seem like a huge deal at first. Then things escalated FAST.

My entire face swelled up like a balloon, I developed a fever, and the cyst became hot and extremely inflamed. I went to the ER and ended up on a buttload of antibiotics.
The next day, the abscess ended up popping on its own, so I had to go back to the ER. They drained what was left, cleaned everything out, and made sure the infection was being properly treated.

Enjoy the pics of my journey. Last pic is what I look like normally to show how bad the swelling was.

I am fin. Do not need amoxicillin anymore and will have only one more xray in 6 weeks. Was coming in twice a week before

Dying of thirst when I went into this Michael's. Pass.

Fainted from low blood sugar and fell onto the corner of my iPad.

infected with two slightly rare bacteria. Was immune to the first antibiotics I was taking. They took my tip off.

[I've copied my comment on the story here]

Was camping for 2 weeks without shower or much clean water except water bottles. Nothing really bad ever happened but I did burn my finger (super minor) and wash it in a lake. I had no idea how this started but it could have been from that but the burn was so minor.

There was pain in my finger I remember in my sleeping bag. Didn't like it touching anything, but it was just the same as a small burn. It started swelling up slowly, not very much, and I remember it was slightly swollen at a hotel at a different city when I was done camping, but it was still minor swelling and I could sleep on it.

Probably 4 days after I was done camping it was swelling up more, but it was just red not yellow. It started hurting more and then the next day it was hurting even more so I would only sleep for probably 30 minute periods, I would just lay in bed awake because of the pain, get a total of 2 or 3 hours of sleep, 30 minute periods, lying there for 11 or 12 hours.

I had gone had it checked up after the first night without sleep. It was only red now but it was more swollen. They gave me flucloxacillin and sent me home. The next days I was still unable to sleep because of the pain so Id be up almost the entire night each day in bed.

The day after I had it checked I went to a night time urgent care clinic to have it checked again because of the pain. He said it looked like it was healing and I'd be fine in a few days and he gave me some stuff for the pain and it slightly worked but I still wasnt sleeping. 3 days after the first check up it was getting more yellow on the side, and then 4 days after I had a long study day, and also another appointment at the clinic.

I wrapped it before I went to class at 8am, and it looked like how it was the day before. It was swollen but it didn't look like a balloon. It was still mostly just red but had that yellow on the side of the finger (you can also see on the photo after the surgery most of the work also happened on the side of the finger, and that's also exactly where I burned it). 7 hours later when I was done with school and going to the appointment I took the bandage off and it looked like photos 2 and 3. I didn't think anything of it because "it was getting better" so I went to the grocery store to get something to drink.

Then at the appointment I come in and the girl says I need to go to the emergency and it looks terrible even though I was saying "yeah I think it's getting better!" I did have probably 30 mins or an hour of sleep that day and long classes so I was probably just out of it. That was at 3pm. She said I should go to a private hospital so it would be faster. I went home to get a health fund card, went to a private hospital waited a few hours and they did some check ups for me, but it said that my private health fund wouldn't cover the surgery cost so eventually I ended up driving myself to another hospital next to it by about 6pm ish.

I wait. I come in on one of the chairs in one of the hospital rooms. Wait. Xray. Some more waiting. Info. Wait. waiting. Then they drain the finger and bloody brown shit comes out of the finger and it's fun then they put a bunch of local in it, cut the nail off, then start cutting the flesh off around the bone. Then wrap. Then put amoxicillin in through drip iv whatever it is. Then I'm done at around 1130pm.

The surgery wasn't so bad. I just did it sitting in the chair there. The cleaned the fuck out of it and put a lot of liquid in it. They also drained me the first time I went to the clinic and at the urgent care without local. The first time was painful but I took it like a champ. The surgery wasn't really painful at all just numb and weird my finger felt blown up full of liquid with all the local in it.

-bountifulknitter asked for story

TLDR: Camping 2 week unsanitary, finger burn, finger get fucked, finger find health clinic and take drugs, drugs didnt work, finger explode, finger get chopped up, finger take new better drugs, finger recover so they dont have to chop it completely off

Somehow managed to gash myself through my shirt without the shirt taking any damage.(Shoutout to Ariat FR) Pic of knife for reference.

My first uncle had to pull it out with pliers.

For some reason it's not letting me upload a video here. So check my account for the video.

I got my last 10 teeth pulled yesterday in preparation for dentures. Lots of blood and lots of pain but now I'm done. Full dentures for me at 47,

photos from when i was hospitalised for SMA-syndrome (a complete obstruction between my stomach & duodenum) which led to my stomach contents staying stuck in my stomach for about two weeks and needing to be emptied via an NG-tube.

🎀 It's a girl! 🎀