Ouch!A friend was once given a biopsy by a sleep-deprived junior doctor.
They needed a sample of his colon, so inserted the long bendy jaws-on-the-end thingy, located the suspect area and... he shot through the ceiling. Doctor had forgotten to administer any anaesthetic.
What was your ouchiest moment?
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chthonic, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 17:29)
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On the subject of teeth.A few years back I had an abscess in one of my lower back teeth. I couldn't get a dentist appointment until the following week (yay NHS!) So had to alternate with painkillers and booze to numb the agony. I'd discovered that beer worked a treat after 2 or 3, but initially made the pain considerably worse for about 20 minutes before the effects kicked in, so one evening when it was particularly agonizing I figured I'd cut out the middle man and neck a double brandy before I started on the beer to get the initial 'holy fuck this hurts' stage over with in about 5 minutes. How wrong could I be. I spent half an hour, maybe more lying on my bed kicking the wall in the worst pain I have ever experienced before it finally eased off, seriously it made that bloke getting ripped apart in Hellraiser seem like a gentle wank in a meadow full of breasts. Came near to blacking out at one stage. Fuck teeth.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 3:25, 1 reply)
Could be worse.I grind my teeth in my sleep, and a couple months ago, I managed to grind so hard, I've cracked off the front half of one of my molars. No NHS for us in the States to fall back on, so despite the rather considerable pain of having half a tooth with the root exposed for months, I can't go to the dentist as my insurance won't cover anything except maybe $400 tops on a procedure that I'll be billed between $2000-$4000 for. Price depends mostly on how big of an asshole the dentist is feeling like being that day, it seems. It's probably going to be a couple years before I can afford to get this fixed because of this.
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Ithyphallophobia, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 11:19,
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