I have a small particle of a yucca spine imbedded in my knee

i'd leave it. it's organic, should be fine.

SPIKY FUCKING JERKWADS

http://www.tandjenterprises.com/images/YuccaPlant.jpg

I got hurt by my own STATE FLOWER. *96 tears*

If it's a bit of the spine it will probably work it's way out.

(by the way, all advice given by me is taken at your own risk. I am not, have never been, nor am ever likely to be, a person with any sort of medical knowledge or common sense. it might go septic. eurgh.)

The only medical advice I feel confident to share is "Drink plenty of water."

what kind of advice is "it's organic, it'll be fine"???

ate some funny mushrooms? don't worry, they're organic, it'll be fine.

Need some Sara R-C up in this.

that lion biting your leg is organic, it'll be fine.

i feel like jaq or laurel would probably have a solution to this.

just like werner herzog!

I think Werner Herzog has the same deal, but because he intentionally threw himself onto a cactus. He seems fine.

dammit xpost

don't knock it s1ocki. I nearly wrote biodegradable.

I have bits of pencil lead in my back from being assaulted in the sixth or seventh grade. It's fine. Cutting it out poses more risk than leaving it in.

Knowing I am in the company of Herzog makes me feel a lot happier.

abbott, maybe you might want to seek out some sort of 'drawing salve'?

I just don't want a retarded black scab in my knee forever – I'm self-conscious enough about my damned Cabbage Patch Kid knees.

i don't know if that actually works or is some sort of grandmotherly folk cure or what xp

Yes, elmo, and some tincture of laudanum.

think the only way to take care of this is to take peyote and go into the spirit of the yucca.

I'll pant a yucca spine in the cemetery and dance around it four times, shaking a tambourine festooned with rabbits' feet.

sounds like a job for FASHION BANDAGE

sit in a quiet place and try to expunge it via force of will

Nietzschean folk cures?

thus spoke yuccathustra

I had a splinter in my finger that I'd tried failed to remove and had started going all blistery, and after a couple of weeks with no improvement i went to the drop-in clinic and they said yeah you'd better go to casualty to get that out. I had one more go at extricating it and managed to pull out a 5mm long bit of wood covered in pus and blood.

So yeah organic != happiness and joy, necessarily.

Do you think a general practitioner would be able to take care of this? I need to stop by the doc & get some RXes today anyway.

It's worth a try.

Can't even tell which finger it was now. Skin healing = fucking awesome.

generally speaking your body will let you know if it is unhappy with a foreign object embedded it in

by dying

"Pardon me, Abbott, but there appears to be an irritating particle next to your gonads."

"Thank you dearly, corpus, I will now start coating it with mother-of-pearl."

warning: my son had a massive splinter in his foot, he had a doctor's appt scheduled anyway, so we let her take it out. she charged us for SURGERY.

bill was later rescinded, but still

I have bits of pencil lead in my back from being assaulted in the sixth or seventh grade. It's fine. Cutting it out poses more risk than leaving it in.

i've got the tip of a pencil in my right knee from being an idiot 7th grade boy.

pencils yeah, i once called a girl fat and her friend stabbed me in the right palm

defensive wounds

in my experience, the tissue around the object will eventually get red and irritated, culminating in a tender boil that will erupt with a surprising POP followed by a flurry of pus and blood.

unless it is pencil lead, which can apparently coexist peacefully inside a human vessel

that's chlamydia, shasta.

wow i didn't realize a yucca spine was a form of pencil lead, my bad.

I've never had my skin go POP. exactly how large did you let this boil get?

"flurry"

deciding to keep my mouth shut @ chicago kevin.

:-P

whoa, i don't swing that way you disease ridden trollop!

abbott's knee may or may not explode if she doesn't get that spine out, but tombot, kevin, and elmo seem to be doing fine with their graphite guests

I have a chunk of pencil in my elbow from grade school. I guess it's okay.

though we may have touched on the root of tombot's animus

whoa that sounds really dirty

This is becoming the world's most stupid and boring Cronenberg movie. And I've seen the Dead Zone!

LONG LIVE THE NEW LEAD

If it's been in your leg for 2 weeks and hasn't gotten infected, you could probably leave it be. But you will have a black speck for a couple of years minimum. You could get some drawing salve, or make a poultice of raw grated white potato, apply, cover with plastic wrap and leave overnight, then go at it with tweezers/sewing needle/fresh exacto blade the next day. Clean the potato/salve off your skin with alcohol first though.

i feel like jaq or laurel would probably have a solution to this.

-- remy bean, Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:47 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

That is the most incredible use of potatoes I have heard of since the homemade PVC pipe potato gun.

apparently you haven't heard of the idaho suppository

yeah remy, didn't want to let you down.

you are like the farmer's almanac of people -- i am always a little bit impressed!

remy I'm wearing a Boise High hoodie right now, I know the interactions of the Russet and the human anus (not firsthand, don't get me wrong).

BOISE HIGH HARMONY

a doon-doon-da-da
a doon-doon-da-da
Hiy-yi-yi-yi
a doon-dad-da
whoa-o-whoa-o-whoaaa

BOISE-2-MEN
ARE IN THE HOUSE
NOT TOO HARD
AND NOT TOO SOFT

Came out of the old knee yesterday. Can I get a higher five than normal?

Upper five! You did it! Go you! :)

Higher High Five!

If it's a bit of the spine it will probably work it's way out.

― snoball, Thursday, 28 August 2008 18:45 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

And now I high five myself...

Your prophecy was wise and true.

nothing more satisfying than removing a splinter

Awww and I didn't see this thread at all until now! Nice work, Jaq.

Hooray for pus!

(there's something you don't hear everyday)

NO PUS WAS INVOLVED

most peculiar

I know thank god because I find pus one of the most revolting fluid-solids ever.

Spots

It turns out this was a sotol I tripped and landed on, not a yucca! Sorry to lie about you, yuccas.

my grandpa used to have a yucca tree in his back acres. when i was a young'un i'd yank out the cone of unfurled spines that grows out of the center of the plant and then wear them on my fingers and be Desert Freddy Krueger. (he also had several donkeytail plants and an aloe vera plant; the latter could be used for making webbed slimehands)

drought-resistant vegetation rules the school

I have to give it up for the agave flower. If you could take a photograph of something from Yellow Submarine's cartoon world, it would look like this:

http://www.americansouthwest.net/arizona/photographs450/agave-flower.jpg

Once it makes that flower, it dies!

^^ new board description