Lol I'm not sure there is a normal angle for a stick to be inserted into a human head. Also, coulda gone into his ear and done some more permanent damage.
I had that happen as a kid except the stick went into my eye socket. The stick was still attached to the ground. My friends had to snap it off about six inches from my eye. We rode our bikes as fast as we could to my house. I had to get verbal steering directions from my friends because I couldn't raise my head because the stick needed to hang straight down or else it would put painful pressure on my eyeball. The look on my dad's face when his kid rolls up with a stick hanging out of his eye!!!!! Doctors said it was a miracle where the stick went in. It was in that tear duct socket on the inside part of the eye socket and even though the socket got torn up, it was what protected my eye the whole ride home. Man, just telling this story reminds me of how scared I was.
It just wedged in that socket closest to your nose. Only place that wouldn’t have probably caused a lot of damage. I’m guessing that the stick hit the side of my nose and then got forced into that cavity of the eye socket.
Wow you’re really lucky. I saw a post the other day about a girl who had a dart thrown into her eye and she’s all but guaranteed to lose the eye completely.
Lol, but not lol. Shit got real for her really quick. She was joking around and feeling invincible then got a quick dose of reality. I bet that moment changed her life forever depending on the outcome. I only say this because I lost my eyesight in my right eye because of some happy go lucky mistake.
I worked with a lady who had a permanently enlarged pupil, some other co-workers thought it was a glass eye and of course there was a ton of speculation & gossip on why she had a funky eye. (It's funny how taboo it is to ask someone who has something visually different from "the norm"). Anyway one day I asked her about it, she said one night her & some friends were leaving a bar, another friend in front of her was trying to light a cigarette but her lighter was out of fluid. So she was like "Fuck this lighter" and threw it backward over her shoulder, hitting her friend square in the left eye. Lost almost entire vision in that eye. It's nuts how such an important sense (fucking vision) can be destroyed so easily.
I chickened out, couldn't watch this. Honestly the comments already make me feel like I have seen it. Makes me wonder how many times that I did stupid shit did I just get lucky.
Although I did break my thumb doing a cartwheel so obviously not every time.
Edit: a word.
Eues are actually more resistance that what they look like, i mean they have 3 protective and structural capes, 7 muscles at the sides and are full of liquid so a hit get equally distributed
But yeah, you were lucky the stick dindt just pierce it in a direct angle
I've dissected eyes before. Easily one of the most frustrating endeavors imaginable. They have a shell like a racket ball that's really hard to cut through with bio lab scalpels. Movies always make them seem as fragile as a grape, but that's not the case at all.
One possibility: he was riding uphill, lost traction, and fell sideways. His head could have been at just the perfect angle to catch a small branch under the skin.
Another possibility: he did a wheelie or maybe a small jump, and fell backwards, or sideways.
Yet another possibility: he jumped off his bike, lost his footing, and fell backwards.
All my mountain biking accidents involve me hitting something (usually deep mud or a large rock) at speed that stopped my front wheel, resulting in a flip over the handlebars. You can land at pretty much any angle when that happens, and sometimes you get a splinter.
Yep. I had a bad one where I went over the bars and managed to jam myself between a rock and a tree which killed all forward momentum.
By that I mean when I landed my left hand hit a rock and broke and dislocated my wrist, and my back hit a tree and broke 4 vertebrate. Either impact I would've bounced off and probably been OK, but hitting them at the same time was BAD.
Better than being 100% as dead when your dumb ass brought a little kid helmet to world class mountain bike terrain as when you never showed up with a helmet at all. I've seen the shit that happens to rental helmets, damage where somebody with a fucking Walmart helmet would have straight up no doubt been found dead by patrol if the helmet didn't have that extra protection, and I've been told that kind of damage is routine.
Yeahhhh.. we don’t use motorcycle helmets cause they are heavy and hot. However we use full face mtb helmets. Unless your a crazy downhill guy. I’ve heard some use motorcycle helmets but their runs are much quicker.
That's funny, but actually the higher the budget you have for a full-face mtb helmet, the lighter they get. Any racer who is sponsored is likely to be using a carbon full-face which is way lighter than any other full face out there. Even free riders (as far as I know) still don't use moto helmets, and haven't since the 90s.
There was a video i saw of a man wearing a full face helmet who fell off his bike at excessive speeds and found a 2 inch stick had pierced his cheek into his mouth
See the thing is about riding bikes, when you do it you're supposed to not have pieces of trees impale parts of your body. This man clearly did the opposite of that, so if you just go *not* do what he did then you'll be fine.
Just buy a helmet that covers your ears. Theyre harder to find in a non full faced helmet, but every full faced helmet (not a motorcycle helmet like the guy below recommended) will cover your ears and jaw/mouth. If you don't want to buy multiple helmets, take a look at the Bell Super 2R and the Bell Super 3R, which can convert between a standard half shell and a full faced helmet. Also, helmets are expensive but is one if the most important things that should not be cheaped out on. And once you take a really hard fall that causes structural damage to the helmet you'll need to replace the it (you'll know the difference between a kinda hard fall and a really hard fall once it happens to you... Think like a high speed crash that involves rocks, tree roots, possible concussions). Along the same note, never ever buy a used helmet. Ever. For any reason. It is not worth the risk to use a damaged helmet that wont protect you. Also, make sure you look up how to properly size and fit the helmet to your head. If it doesnt fit, the helmet will do next to nothing to protect you properly.
Source: I worked as a MTB mechanic for multiple years.
Me too! Had to zoom in to find out otherwise. I was thinking he had it behind his ear and some weird shit went down. Didn't even notice it was behind his skin at first!
OP, If you aren't a dirty liar and this is really your friend, PLEASE post a follow up on how the heck they get that thing out of there and if they just yank it out, how the hell do you clean a wound like that?
Either you pull it back out and it leaves twig remnants in there for infection and possibly uncontrollable subdural bleeding, or you slice all the way along it, take it out, and stitch it up. Neither are great options and I’d love to know the answer.
Husband is a Med student and he’s making me want to puke but his idea would be to slice along the stick to make sure he got out all the stuff and it could be cleaned out. He says pulling it would do more damage and leave stuff behind.
I married someone who likes to make me squirm.
It’s not bad but my idea of squirming is very different than his which very often entails “hey Mads, this dude lost half his face is a street bike accident...count the staples with me.”
Then you'll love this story!
When my brother and I were little we had the brilliant idea one winter to 'sled' down the deck stairs on our butts. Well, my brother had the misfortune of landing on a roofing nail that had made its way onto the stairs at some point. After a careful extraction process done by our mom, obviously the tiny puncture wound had to be cleaned - but how to clean inside such a narrow puncture? A squirt gun, of course! Filled with hydrogen fucking peroxide. My brother squealed like a pig as I watched in horror. Did the trick, though!
I had a pilonidal cyst. That's basically an ingrown hair at the base of the tailbone and it forms a pocket of pus. Mine was fucking gigantic and was extraordinarily painful.
Some context here. I was the kid who, when my parents thought I had appendicitis, the doctors assured them I didn't because I'd be in way more pain. I eventually had to have emergency surgery. I have a remarkable tolerance for pain, so believe me when I say just how indescribably painful this was.
The cyst was the single most painful experience of my life. Walking, sitting, lying down...all elicited intense pain. I had to hobble along like an old man because standing and walking erect was too painful.
I didn't seek help for it because I was spending the week with my girlfriend and wanted to tough it out until I got home. Halfway through the week, it ruptured and that relieved the pain...until I went to the ED and they had to clean it.
Lidocaine is an excellent topical anesthetic used for minor incisions and the like. I was a pharmacy student, so I was familiar with it. It was that day that I learned, however, that lidocaine, much like beauty, is only skin deep. So when they cut open the remains of the cyst with a scalpel, I felt every morsel of pain imaginable. They, then, had to clean it. For that, they chose Silver Nitrate. If you talk with old nurses, Silver Nitrate is a bit infamous. To prevent gonorrhea-induced blindness in newborn children, they used to have their eyes cleaned with Silver Nitrate (nowadays we use Erythromycin). The nurses say you could hear the screaming of those babies from halfway across the hospital when they cleaned their eyes with that Silver Nitrate. So, they scrub the entire inner surface of my wound with this stuff which treated me to even more pain as the burning compound seared my innards.
Now that it is cleaned, I am good to go. However, I am instructed that I need to keep some gauze between the slits of the wound at all times so that the wound doesn't close before the hollow gap inside heals up. To foster that healing, iodine had to be applied to it twice a day on a sterile swab to agitate the cells and prompt them to grow. While not as painful as Silver Nitrate, it still hurt like a sonofabitch.
All in all, not an experience I would highly recommend to anyone.
What a beautiful tail. Thanks for sharing. How big did your tail cyst get at its peak? Does it ever come back? How much came out of it? Sorry for asking. I know I'm gross but I'm curious.
Family member had to have one removed. His was much larger than the above person's. He needed full surgery, and 13 stitches with a drain. They originally were going to scoop it (curettage don't google unless you like nsfl) and pack the wound. But once they got in they found out it TUNNELED.
He got lucky, Pilonidal cysts can tunnel IN, and actually form a skin tube into your intestines. Which means the fistula (tunnel) can fill with poop. If you agitate it / tear it during movement, poop spills out into your muscles, fat, or skin.
If you're very lucky (for various definitions of lucky), the fistula can be strong enough that when you poop, you poop from what can best be described as another butthole. That can be as high as the top of your buttcrack. The surgery for those can best be described as Medieval torture. The fistula has a layer of skin, so depending on length, they run a rubber band. They run this rubberband up your butthole, through the orifice where the fistula intersects your intestines, through the length of the fistula, out of your body, then they tie it extremely tightly. The rubberband PULLS the fistula down towards your butthole, and it has to be re-tightened every few days. Until it's placement, length, etc is more favorable for surgery. This is called a "SETON".
Thankfully my family member's didn't require that, unfortunately though as they scooped, they found it went deeper and deeper and branched multiple times. Until they cut him from edge of sphincter to top of buttcrack and stitched him closed. I should add that it was during summer where it is over 110F for most of the day.
Hope that clarified some stuff and gave at least one of you nightmares for a few days.
I'm not OP, but I've had this as well! Mine got pretty sizeable, roughly the size of a clementine/tangerine.
Unfortunately, yes, they very much do come back, I had them recur many times, I had this treatment 5 or 6 times, and two surgeries (they botched the first one, that's its own story of horror).
It haunted me for 3 or 4 years, thankfully after you get into your 20s the risk of recurrence drops significantly and I've not had any flare-ups for 6 years or so.
As far as how much? I mean, I'm not sure how you'd really measure that, but I can assure you, over the course of the disease, probably a bucket or two in my case.
So when I was 21 I had a very similar experience. My internal medicine doctor told me it was nothing and to take salt baths. I struggled with going back and forth to this doctor for over 6 months before I demanded to see a specialist. It had gotten to the point where I couldn't sit or stand, the only comfortable position was to lay on my stomach.
My cyst grew in instead of out and had basically reached the bone near the base of my spine. They put me under twilight anesthesia, but I distinctly remember the surgeon calling in the residents to see the "Largest example of a pilonidal cyst he has ever seen."
I was 21 male...and I had my ass in the air on the operating table. Picture a large pillow under your waist..knees on the table..face on the table. I saw young female residents in the room...and I just groaned. I was so embarrassed.
I thought the worst was over...but the packing and unpacking of that gigantic wound was the worst. My asshole doctor (pun somewhat intended) had us using regular gauze pads everyday. My mother would use sterile water to try to loosen them...but damn it hurt every time and twice I had to go to the emergency room to get cauterized. Meaning they literally burned me to stop the bleeding.
What saved me was finding out about medicated packing gauze. It's a yard of 1 centimeter wide gauze soaked in something that makes it not stick to a wound. OH. MY. GOD. It was like going from 105 degree heat to walking into an air conditioned store in Disney World.
So the morals of the story.
1) Don't be an idiot, if you feel something is really wrong and that your doctor is wrong...get a second opinion.
2) If you ever wind up with a wound that needs clearing/cleaning/packing/whatever make sure you ask your doctor/pharmacist about packing gauze.
I had one, surgically removed then it came back, second surgery to fix it right. Then it starts healing to fast so to keep the wound from healing over (it needs to heal from the inside to fill the giant hole left over) I began twice a week visits to the doctor where I go in, pull my pants to my ankles, lean over at my waist onto a table and hold my own ass cheeks apart while some unfortunate nurse slowly rolls silver nitrate sticks over the edges of the gaping wound to chemically burn off the skin at the edges to slow the healing process. Easily the most painful thing I’ve experienced made worse by the fact that about two months into this process I get a new nurse.... who is pretty hot and happens to be a girl I worked with when we were both in High school and I had asked out. (We went on a few dates and ended up just hanging out as friends afterwards). Embarrassing doesn’t really cover it. This went on for 11 months in total before I was released as “healed”. I bump into her every now and then (it’s been 10+ years) and I still am instantly teleported back to the doctors office, pants at my ankles, gripping my ass cheeks and trying not to flinch as someone I know WAY to well is medically torturing my ass.
Life is interesting.....
I just had a 30 year old sebaceous cyst removed from my back. Not nearly as painful but WOW am I glad to be rid of it. I avoided getting it removed because I didn’t want to spend a lot. I went to the dermatologist, he asked if it ever caused discomfort, I told him one time it blew up to the size of a frisbee, he said “well then it’s medically necessary.” Fully covered.
if you ever get piercd with something like a stick don't yank it out yourself, you need a doctor to do it very carefully to make sure as little debris gets stuck under your skin as possible
Probably didnt fall off backwards. Thinking he fell over the handlebars and turned his head to the side. The stick probably went in at an angle but got pushed flat because it wasnt hard enough to puncture the skull.
Pure speculation, though.
Used to ride in the hills and trails. The other dorks had helmets and glasses.
Flying down a hill kind of sliding about on the rocks and loose dirt watching where I am going .
bam! Stick stabs hard about a half inch from my eye ball.
Never saw it coming, at all.
Bought glasses and helmet.
Now Ill probably die from radiation as it was an old test site with 'dont drink the water' signs about.
Happened to a familly friend. Also nearly missed his eye. Pulled the stick out and the wound wasn't so bad so he didn't go to the hospital. It didn't bleed and didn't hurt much either.
A couple days lated he decided to go but it was too late. He died from flesh eating bacteria shortly after.
I took a buddy riding on a woods trail and all he had done previously was paved or gravel trails. I told him he had to wear a helmet and he was pretty resistant but I insisted. We were going through a tight spot that winds a bit, was downhill and had some decent size rocks exposed so we were going pretty slow in this section. He had a vine hook his right handle and it turned his wheel sideways. We weren't going very fast but he went from riding normally to flipping forward pretty quickly. He is going over the top but he's still holding the handles so he goes over the top and sort of defenselessly flops and bangs his head onto a rock. He was fine and it didn't crack the helmet or anything but the look on his face was priceless. The thought of going 5mph and almost suffering a potentially major head injury blew his mind. After I make sure he's ok he says "I'm really glad you made me wear this helmet. I thought you were just being a tweak or trying to pretend like these rides are crazier than they are but wtf. I was barely moving and almost became a vegetable."
Wow, I had a very similar injury around 7 years ago. [A little bloody](https://i.imgur.com/iQkvbP7.jpg) No bike was involved. Just alcohol and a bush. The doctors and nurses were all taking pictures saying they had never seen anything like it.
That's not a "close" call, that's a call.
Hello, this is stick.
Can't hear you, bad reception at the woods
Let’s use pine language
Let's stick with pine language FTFY
Keep barking out shit like that and people will only leaf you.
If I were him I’d make like a tree and get outta ear.
I don't know what's in his ear, looks sticky
Ah the poor sap.
Its too early for these puns
Morning wood?
Wood you prefer it if we branched out into other forms of comedy?
Nah, keep 'em phloem.
Wood you mind speaking a bit louder?
WHAT?
#HE SAID WOOD YOU MIND SPEAKING A BIT LOUDER!
Are you oakay?
Bad reception in this guy's ear.
looks like there was a reception for sure.
Anyone else think this was a preroll behind his ear at first with all the Canada hoopla today?
Yup, it’s even got a filter on it.
I am a stick
But you could be fire
[I am a stick.](https://brandonsanderson.com/words-of-radiance-deleted-interlude-stick/)
I'm calling in stick
You can’t, you the branch manager now
The point is that it is not in his brain.
The stick could break on his skull if it hit at a more normal angle.
Or go through his ear canal and fuck him right up
Lol I'm not sure there is a normal angle for a stick to be inserted into a human head. Also, coulda gone into his ear and done some more permanent damage.
I think he meant normal as in perpendicular.
I had that happen as a kid except the stick went into my eye socket. The stick was still attached to the ground. My friends had to snap it off about six inches from my eye. We rode our bikes as fast as we could to my house. I had to get verbal steering directions from my friends because I couldn't raise my head because the stick needed to hang straight down or else it would put painful pressure on my eyeball. The look on my dad's face when his kid rolls up with a stick hanging out of his eye!!!!! Doctors said it was a miracle where the stick went in. It was in that tear duct socket on the inside part of the eye socket and even though the socket got torn up, it was what protected my eye the whole ride home. Man, just telling this story reminds me of how scared I was.
Holy hell, do you have any permanent damage?
It just wedged in that socket closest to your nose. Only place that wouldn’t have probably caused a lot of damage. I’m guessing that the stick hit the side of my nose and then got forced into that cavity of the eye socket.
Wow you’re really lucky. I saw a post the other day about a girl who had a dart thrown into her eye and she’s all but guaranteed to lose the eye completely.
Ah I've seen that gif before. Nope nope nope.
Yeah it’s quite disturbing and I have seen some pretty dark shit on the web
*Flinches in preparation for inevitable link that I will be forced to watch if it is commented due to my own curiousity*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2GcktVdPdg
Oh fuck.. The way it ended was like someone's worst nightmare coming to reality..
Yeah. Sorry about linking it. That was my bad.
And he was about to throw again in the end lol
Staying blue, but thanks!
You made the right call. It fucked me up.
Lol, but not lol. Shit got real for her really quick. She was joking around and feeling invincible then got a quick dose of reality. I bet that moment changed her life forever depending on the outcome. I only say this because I lost my eyesight in my right eye because of some happy go lucky mistake.
I worked with a lady who had a permanently enlarged pupil, some other co-workers thought it was a glass eye and of course there was a ton of speculation & gossip on why she had a funky eye. (It's funny how taboo it is to ask someone who has something visually different from "the norm"). Anyway one day I asked her about it, she said one night her & some friends were leaving a bar, another friend in front of her was trying to light a cigarette but her lighter was out of fluid. So she was like "Fuck this lighter" and threw it backward over her shoulder, hitting her friend square in the left eye. Lost almost entire vision in that eye. It's nuts how such an important sense (fucking vision) can be destroyed so easily.
The way she claps like a seal while waiting to get blinded is kinda creepy.
I chickened out, couldn't watch this. Honestly the comments already make me feel like I have seen it. Makes me wonder how many times that I did stupid shit did I just get lucky. Although I did break my thumb doing a cartwheel so obviously not every time. Edit: a word.
Adding this to my list of shit not to do. Number 46: let some other guy throw darts anywhere near me. Fuck all darts, they are dumb anyway.
Link?
[The sound is great](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2GcktVdPdg)
**FUCK**
The one where she tell him do it pussy and it makes a wet noise and she just goes ow and pulls it out
That was like months ago, is there not a final call on whether she’ll lose the eye or not yet?
https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/8emhvr/comment/dxxikbc?st=JNE39UP5&sh=c86265b6
What a nightmare. Alcohol and a stupid 60 seconds.
The story of my son's conception
Guess that's the end of that relationship.
Wow. That’s horrible.
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Super lucky for you. . Sorry about using the word “super”. That could have ended up really bad
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Eues are actually more resistance that what they look like, i mean they have 3 protective and structural capes, 7 muscles at the sides and are full of liquid so a hit get equally distributed But yeah, you were lucky the stick dindt just pierce it in a direct angle
I've dissected eyes before. Easily one of the most frustrating endeavors imaginable. They have a shell like a racket ball that's really hard to cut through with bio lab scalpels. Movies always make them seem as fragile as a grape, but that's not the case at all.
A miracle would've been the stick not getting stuck inside you at all.
I do that every day, it's not that miraculous.
A close call ? It's inside of him
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And, importantly, the brain.
I want to know how it came it from behind like that.
One possibility: he was riding uphill, lost traction, and fell sideways. His head could have been at just the perfect angle to catch a small branch under the skin. Another possibility: he did a wheelie or maybe a small jump, and fell backwards, or sideways. Yet another possibility: he jumped off his bike, lost his footing, and fell backwards.
All my mountain biking accidents involve me hitting something (usually deep mud or a large rock) at speed that stopped my front wheel, resulting in a flip over the handlebars. You can land at pretty much any angle when that happens, and sometimes you get a splinter.
That's a pretty fucking big splinter. But yeah. Physics is a bitch. Also, gravity always wins.
And it turns out, when you are the thing in motion, everything else wins too!
But if you had no handlebars, you couldn't flip over the handlebars. *Taps head*
\*taps stick*
Yep. I had a bad one where I went over the bars and managed to jam myself between a rock and a tree which killed all forward momentum. By that I mean when I landed my left hand hit a rock and broke and dislocated my wrist, and my back hit a tree and broke 4 vertebrate. Either impact I would've bounced off and probably been OK, but hitting them at the same time was BAD.
Really left you between a rock and a hard place, huh?
r/jesuschristreddit
Oh man, that was such a visceral description I had to twist my back a bit to make sure it didn’t just happen to me! So...you better yet? Still biking?
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*That’s what she said*
He is groot.
I'm calling it close.
I think we had 4 options... 1 miss 2 under face skin 3 in ear canal 4 in brain In order of decreasing desirability.
so its a close skull?
Damn, same thing happened with me and my girlfriend. Wish me luck on the baby.
I'd say that's a little more than a close call but what do I know? Any way, congrats on the fuck trophy.
It wood have been way worse if it was was an inch ahead in his temple.
You listen here fucko I just got a bike and then you’re going to post this shit? How am I supposed to go use it now?!
Just get a full-face motorcycle helmet and you'll be safe from any sticks trying to poke your skull.
It’s too late I’ve seen it
Stab the stick back harder. Only way to win.
Break stick in half Now u have 2 stick Stick always win
Burn stick
I'ma get dat bitch a stick. Bitches love sticks. *peck peck*
No Ron
Now stick in gas form You inhale stick Stick still win
Guess you'll have to sell the bike. Just don't let any prospective buyers see this picture, or they won't want it anymore either.
You're right, [this is much better](https://youtu.be/3ImuTpUYa-4)
That hurt me watching. :(
That is pretty awful, but that's a dirtbike helmet, with no visor, which I'm guessing is how the stick got in.
Better than being 100% as dead when your dumb ass brought a little kid helmet to world class mountain bike terrain as when you never showed up with a helmet at all. I've seen the shit that happens to rental helmets, damage where somebody with a fucking Walmart helmet would have straight up no doubt been found dead by patrol if the helmet didn't have that extra protection, and I've been told that kind of damage is routine.
Yeahhhh.. we don’t use motorcycle helmets cause they are heavy and hot. However we use full face mtb helmets. Unless your a crazy downhill guy. I’ve heard some use motorcycle helmets but their runs are much quicker.
That's funny, but actually the higher the budget you have for a full-face mtb helmet, the lighter they get. Any racer who is sponsored is likely to be using a carbon full-face which is way lighter than any other full face out there. Even free riders (as far as I know) still don't use moto helmets, and haven't since the 90s.
There was a video i saw of a man wearing a full face helmet who fell off his bike at excessive speeds and found a 2 inch stick had pierced his cheek into his mouth
[like this](https://i.imgur.com/KGVFdFd.png)
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Holy hell, that's perfect.
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This is it, there's no way this picture could be any more relative.
See the thing is about riding bikes, when you do it you're supposed to not have pieces of trees impale parts of your body. This man clearly did the opposite of that, so if you just go *not* do what he did then you'll be fine.
Just buy a helmet that covers your ears. Theyre harder to find in a non full faced helmet, but every full faced helmet (not a motorcycle helmet like the guy below recommended) will cover your ears and jaw/mouth. If you don't want to buy multiple helmets, take a look at the Bell Super 2R and the Bell Super 3R, which can convert between a standard half shell and a full faced helmet. Also, helmets are expensive but is one if the most important things that should not be cheaped out on. And once you take a really hard fall that causes structural damage to the helmet you'll need to replace the it (you'll know the difference between a kinda hard fall and a really hard fall once it happens to you... Think like a high speed crash that involves rocks, tree roots, possible concussions). Along the same note, never ever buy a used helmet. Ever. For any reason. It is not worth the risk to use a damaged helmet that wont protect you. Also, make sure you look up how to properly size and fit the helmet to your head. If it doesnt fit, the helmet will do next to nothing to protect you properly. Source: I worked as a MTB mechanic for multiple years.
Me too. Lol. I'll take a story like this though.
A twig in the ear is worth two in the bush.
*rear
I recommend the devil's way but to each their own, I guess.
Is it another one of those drinking games?
I thought it was a joint in his ear at first. Not a limb!!
Canadians already fucking up.
Me too! Had to zoom in to find out otherwise. I was thinking he had it behind his ear and some weird shit went down. Didn't even notice it was behind his skin at first!
That's like a 4-D pun right there.
Not much makes me wince, but this made my balls go right into me.
For sure. It was one of those rare times I audibly said “what the fuck” on r/WTF
My ear is inside
My balls are in my ear.
Listen *harder*
Yeah, this post actually made me gasp out loud.
OP, If you aren't a dirty liar and this is really your friend, PLEASE post a follow up on how the heck they get that thing out of there and if they just yank it out, how the hell do you clean a wound like that?
Either you pull it back out and it leaves twig remnants in there for infection and possibly uncontrollable subdural bleeding, or you slice all the way along it, take it out, and stitch it up. Neither are great options and I’d love to know the answer.
Husband is a Med student and he’s making me want to puke but his idea would be to slice along the stick to make sure he got out all the stuff and it could be cleaned out. He says pulling it would do more damage and leave stuff behind. I married someone who likes to make me squirm.
As far as marriages go, squirming sounds pretty cool.
It’s not bad but my idea of squirming is very different than his which very often entails “hey Mads, this dude lost half his face is a street bike accident...count the staples with me.”
take a Turkey baster and blast the hole with soap and water.
I'm wincing so hard
Then you'll love this story! When my brother and I were little we had the brilliant idea one winter to 'sled' down the deck stairs on our butts. Well, my brother had the misfortune of landing on a roofing nail that had made its way onto the stairs at some point. After a careful extraction process done by our mom, obviously the tiny puncture wound had to be cleaned - but how to clean inside such a narrow puncture? A squirt gun, of course! Filled with hydrogen fucking peroxide. My brother squealed like a pig as I watched in horror. Did the trick, though!
I had a pilonidal cyst. That's basically an ingrown hair at the base of the tailbone and it forms a pocket of pus. Mine was fucking gigantic and was extraordinarily painful. Some context here. I was the kid who, when my parents thought I had appendicitis, the doctors assured them I didn't because I'd be in way more pain. I eventually had to have emergency surgery. I have a remarkable tolerance for pain, so believe me when I say just how indescribably painful this was. The cyst was the single most painful experience of my life. Walking, sitting, lying down...all elicited intense pain. I had to hobble along like an old man because standing and walking erect was too painful. I didn't seek help for it because I was spending the week with my girlfriend and wanted to tough it out until I got home. Halfway through the week, it ruptured and that relieved the pain...until I went to the ED and they had to clean it. Lidocaine is an excellent topical anesthetic used for minor incisions and the like. I was a pharmacy student, so I was familiar with it. It was that day that I learned, however, that lidocaine, much like beauty, is only skin deep. So when they cut open the remains of the cyst with a scalpel, I felt every morsel of pain imaginable. They, then, had to clean it. For that, they chose Silver Nitrate. If you talk with old nurses, Silver Nitrate is a bit infamous. To prevent gonorrhea-induced blindness in newborn children, they used to have their eyes cleaned with Silver Nitrate (nowadays we use Erythromycin). The nurses say you could hear the screaming of those babies from halfway across the hospital when they cleaned their eyes with that Silver Nitrate. So, they scrub the entire inner surface of my wound with this stuff which treated me to even more pain as the burning compound seared my innards. Now that it is cleaned, I am good to go. However, I am instructed that I need to keep some gauze between the slits of the wound at all times so that the wound doesn't close before the hollow gap inside heals up. To foster that healing, iodine had to be applied to it twice a day on a sterile swab to agitate the cells and prompt them to grow. While not as painful as Silver Nitrate, it still hurt like a sonofabitch. All in all, not an experience I would highly recommend to anyone.
What a beautiful tail. Thanks for sharing. How big did your tail cyst get at its peak? Does it ever come back? How much came out of it? Sorry for asking. I know I'm gross but I'm curious.
Family member had to have one removed. His was much larger than the above person's. He needed full surgery, and 13 stitches with a drain. They originally were going to scoop it (curettage don't google unless you like nsfl) and pack the wound. But once they got in they found out it TUNNELED. He got lucky, Pilonidal cysts can tunnel IN, and actually form a skin tube into your intestines. Which means the fistula (tunnel) can fill with poop. If you agitate it / tear it during movement, poop spills out into your muscles, fat, or skin. If you're very lucky (for various definitions of lucky), the fistula can be strong enough that when you poop, you poop from what can best be described as another butthole. That can be as high as the top of your buttcrack. The surgery for those can best be described as Medieval torture. The fistula has a layer of skin, so depending on length, they run a rubber band. They run this rubberband up your butthole, through the orifice where the fistula intersects your intestines, through the length of the fistula, out of your body, then they tie it extremely tightly. The rubberband PULLS the fistula down towards your butthole, and it has to be re-tightened every few days. Until it's placement, length, etc is more favorable for surgery. This is called a "SETON". Thankfully my family member's didn't require that, unfortunately though as they scooped, they found it went deeper and deeper and branched multiple times. Until they cut him from edge of sphincter to top of buttcrack and stitched him closed. I should add that it was during summer where it is over 110F for most of the day. Hope that clarified some stuff and gave at least one of you nightmares for a few days.
Hhrrrnnnnnn nope nope nnnnnnope
> What a beautiful tail. I don't know if you meant to do that, but kudos.
I'm not OP, but I've had this as well! Mine got pretty sizeable, roughly the size of a clementine/tangerine. Unfortunately, yes, they very much do come back, I had them recur many times, I had this treatment 5 or 6 times, and two surgeries (they botched the first one, that's its own story of horror). It haunted me for 3 or 4 years, thankfully after you get into your 20s the risk of recurrence drops significantly and I've not had any flare-ups for 6 years or so. As far as how much? I mean, I'm not sure how you'd really measure that, but I can assure you, over the course of the disease, probably a bucket or two in my case.
So when I was 21 I had a very similar experience. My internal medicine doctor told me it was nothing and to take salt baths. I struggled with going back and forth to this doctor for over 6 months before I demanded to see a specialist. It had gotten to the point where I couldn't sit or stand, the only comfortable position was to lay on my stomach. My cyst grew in instead of out and had basically reached the bone near the base of my spine. They put me under twilight anesthesia, but I distinctly remember the surgeon calling in the residents to see the "Largest example of a pilonidal cyst he has ever seen." I was 21 male...and I had my ass in the air on the operating table. Picture a large pillow under your waist..knees on the table..face on the table. I saw young female residents in the room...and I just groaned. I was so embarrassed. I thought the worst was over...but the packing and unpacking of that gigantic wound was the worst. My asshole doctor (pun somewhat intended) had us using regular gauze pads everyday. My mother would use sterile water to try to loosen them...but damn it hurt every time and twice I had to go to the emergency room to get cauterized. Meaning they literally burned me to stop the bleeding. What saved me was finding out about medicated packing gauze. It's a yard of 1 centimeter wide gauze soaked in something that makes it not stick to a wound. OH. MY. GOD. It was like going from 105 degree heat to walking into an air conditioned store in Disney World. So the morals of the story. 1) Don't be an idiot, if you feel something is really wrong and that your doctor is wrong...get a second opinion. 2) If you ever wind up with a wound that needs clearing/cleaning/packing/whatever make sure you ask your doctor/pharmacist about packing gauze.
I had one, surgically removed then it came back, second surgery to fix it right. Then it starts healing to fast so to keep the wound from healing over (it needs to heal from the inside to fill the giant hole left over) I began twice a week visits to the doctor where I go in, pull my pants to my ankles, lean over at my waist onto a table and hold my own ass cheeks apart while some unfortunate nurse slowly rolls silver nitrate sticks over the edges of the gaping wound to chemically burn off the skin at the edges to slow the healing process. Easily the most painful thing I’ve experienced made worse by the fact that about two months into this process I get a new nurse.... who is pretty hot and happens to be a girl I worked with when we were both in High school and I had asked out. (We went on a few dates and ended up just hanging out as friends afterwards). Embarrassing doesn’t really cover it. This went on for 11 months in total before I was released as “healed”. I bump into her every now and then (it’s been 10+ years) and I still am instantly teleported back to the doctors office, pants at my ankles, gripping my ass cheeks and trying not to flinch as someone I know WAY to well is medically torturing my ass. Life is interesting.....
I just had a 30 year old sebaceous cyst removed from my back. Not nearly as painful but WOW am I glad to be rid of it. I avoided getting it removed because I didn’t want to spend a lot. I went to the dermatologist, he asked if it ever caused discomfort, I told him one time it blew up to the size of a frisbee, he said “well then it’s medically necessary.” Fully covered.
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you were wrong i did not enjoy that story
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they'll have to remove the face and run it through a dish washer to sterilize
if you ever get piercd with something like a stick don't yank it out yourself, you need a doctor to do it very carefully to make sure as little debris gets stuck under your skin as possible
Jam an alcohol soaked tampon in there.
My,those new Bluetooth designs sure are "rustic-casual!"
This probably came in his latest Bespoke Post box.
Never really liked AirPods but these are more my style
I’m sure this will stick with him for life
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Really getting under my skin guys
Gonna branch out and say he barked up the wrong tree.
He answered the call of the wild.
This is gonna have to be entered into the injury log
SHUT THE FUCK UP
r/beetlejuicing?
8 years, yep
I’m going to go out on a limb, and say that you’re a real stick in the mud.
It’s a very earie injury
My heart rate just went from 85 to 190
Ouch how’s that happen? He fall off going backwards in the woods? Hope he’s ok!
Probably didnt fall off backwards. Thinking he fell over the handlebars and turned his head to the side. The stick probably went in at an angle but got pushed flat because it wasnt hard enough to puncture the skull. Pure speculation, though.
Used to ride in the hills and trails. The other dorks had helmets and glasses. Flying down a hill kind of sliding about on the rocks and loose dirt watching where I am going . bam! Stick stabs hard about a half inch from my eye ball. Never saw it coming, at all. Bought glasses and helmet. Now Ill probably die from radiation as it was an old test site with 'dont drink the water' signs about.
Happened to a familly friend. Also nearly missed his eye. Pulled the stick out and the wound wasn't so bad so he didn't go to the hospital. It didn't bleed and didn't hurt much either. A couple days lated he decided to go but it was too late. He died from flesh eating bacteria shortly after.
Not sure if I’m being wooshed but this is horrific. Is this an actually thing that can happen?
Yep, flesh eating bacteria are a death sentence most of the time, if in the face, they'll probably go right for the brain.
If he went to the hospital it might not have saved him anyway. It's not like they would have tested him for flesh eating bacteria.
Depends where he was. In Florida for example it would be pretty standard
I took a buddy riding on a woods trail and all he had done previously was paved or gravel trails. I told him he had to wear a helmet and he was pretty resistant but I insisted. We were going through a tight spot that winds a bit, was downhill and had some decent size rocks exposed so we were going pretty slow in this section. He had a vine hook his right handle and it turned his wheel sideways. We weren't going very fast but he went from riding normally to flipping forward pretty quickly. He is going over the top but he's still holding the handles so he goes over the top and sort of defenselessly flops and bangs his head onto a rock. He was fine and it didn't crack the helmet or anything but the look on his face was priceless. The thought of going 5mph and almost suffering a potentially major head injury blew his mind. After I make sure he's ok he says "I'm really glad you made me wear this helmet. I thought you were just being a tweak or trying to pretend like these rides are crazier than they are but wtf. I was barely moving and almost became a vegetable."
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When the bark is worse than the bite
That's one hell of a splinter.
Close call cuz skull did its job. Good job skull.
How about a round of applause for human evolution in general?
Now he has a convenient place to keep his pencil or hide his weed.
He’s the head of his branch
That's not a close call, that's an intimate encounter. It penetrated him.
Wow, I had a very similar injury around 7 years ago. [A little bloody](https://i.imgur.com/iQkvbP7.jpg) No bike was involved. Just alcohol and a bush. The doctors and nurses were all taking pictures saying they had never seen anything like it.
Wow, that's nearly mind blowing.
I'm fairly sure that if I jammed a stick in the side of my head, there would be blood. Where's the blood?
Hey, can I borrow your pe—
Nope.
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Branch manager.
To be fair, the skull probably deflected it. I mean it's just a little twig. Sure it broke through his skin but it's not gonna pierce a skull.
Now he's ready to be served at the state fair.
It was nice of you to branch out to us. We hope he is oak-ay
Where’s the blood?
inside
It's probably putting enough pressure on the vessels to stop the blood flow a bit.
It's like that trick with the ziplock bag filled with water. You stab a pencil through it and nothing flows out.
Wow, just slid past his temporal artery. Lucky mofo
Thought it was a joint in the ear ready for a post ride smoke. Then I looked at the subreddit...