Got this from a Fine Homebuilding feed...seems to me that the human body would have absorbed this thing long ago...it was not a lead bullet. Still, it's a strange event. Is this possible?
30 year old nail?
30 year old nail?
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Can't see the video on this system, but if the human body can't disolve (where was it lodged?), something, or cause its removal, through an oriface, then it tends to encapsulate it, in order to neutralize it, until it can.She couldn't tell the difference between the escape pod, and the bathroom. We had to go back for her.........................Twice. -
Fifteen years ago, my wife asked me to look at a bump on her heel. It sort of looked like a plantar's wart.
She wanted me to probe the bump with a needle and being a 'curious' kinda guy, I did.
The needle hit some thing with a sort of clink. She said, "Get a tweezer and pull whatever it is out of there". So I did.
It was a pointed piece of beer bottle about 1/4" by 1"long". She remembered stepping on some glass at her uncle's lake home 40 yers before. The piece had worked its way from the ball of her foot to the back of her heel. Her shoes felt a lot more comfortable after that.
A week later, I pulled a piece of broken sewing mchine needle from daughters' heel. It looked like it had been here a long time.
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When I was in high school a buddy shot a bb into his palm. He was captain of the swim team. I don't remember the circumstances exactly except that to get the bb out would have required surgery and he would have missed the championships or something. So he just left it there. Fast forward to a few weeks ago. He emailed me to say that last month a lump started growing on the back of his wrist. He was worried and went to the Dr. The Dr did some x-rays and sent him to a surgeoun who extracted the bb.David
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I had a router bit bearing fly off about 25 years ago, I wonder if...
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I could tell you some stories about botfly infestations but I will refrain for the time being...Jeff
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Thanks, Germdoc!
To paraphrase, 'I'm not a doctor, but I've seen Dr shows on tv'! i'm guessing that as long as it wasn't exposed to acid in the stomach, it might not have dissolved.You don't need a parachute to skydive, you only need a parachute to skydive twice.Comment
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Remember Robert Ripley's Believe it or Not books and articles?Bob TuttleComment
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Hey Ecc,
Maybe some shoes for your family are in order. Ya gotta stop buying all them tools!
Bruce"Western civilization didn't make all men equal,
Samuel Colt did"
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ecc, i think you need to clear the floors in your house of any object that may be deemed sharp, otherwise 40yrs from now your kids will be pulling things out of their feet
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I was stabbed with a graphite pencil back in grammar school. You can still see a little bluish dot where it was (my first tattoo), I'm betting it's still floating around in my arm somewhere, it's only been 25-30 years.
Mike
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I had a piece of lead break off in my palm. You can still see it, although it is very faint now. That's been over 50 years ago.
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So, we have glass, lead, graphite and what ever BB's are made of, as well as someone doing surgery on his wife's head? I would sooner believe an IPE splinter lasting this long.
And, BTW, anyone else had their LOML ask them to examine her head?
If you took a nail and left it out in the elements (not in the desert, but say in the Everglades) for 30 years would it still exist? Maybe this guy thought he had a clogged sinus for 30 years and finally found a tissue?
I remember the Sunday comics when I was a kid and there was a panel or so on Ripley's. This one reminds me of the PT Barnum line about "this was to the egress"!
Did anyone ever find that egress thingy?Don't ever ask a barber if you need a haircut.Comment
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Rust is simply iron oxide, or a combination of iron and oxygen. There is no free oxygen inside the human body (except, of course the lungs and occasionally the stomach), therefore nails or other iron objects will not rust in the ordinary way. The oxygen carried by blood is bound up in hemoglobin.- Chris.Comment
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