# Adventures of the Self-Taught Surgeon **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 26, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-of-the-self-taught-surgeon/286788 "2005-01-26T17:46:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-of-the-self-taught-surgeon/286788/41 "2005-01-28T04:35:14Z")
> [@The Wrong Girl](#): > > I love me a good TMI thread, but I have never read anything here that made me gasp and physically cringe away from the computer until I saw that. And yet I can’t stop reading! > > Does digging out ingrowns count as self-taught surgery? Because two weeks after a bikini wax, I can spend an hour or two, easy, doing that every day. When I read “ingrowns” I thought you meant “Ingrown Toenails”. There was quite a bit of confusion for a moment, but I’m ok now. Sorta. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-of-the-self-taught-surgeon/286788/42 "2005-01-28T04:37:57Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Another time, I decided to remove this long raised mole on my lower back. I took a pair of nail scissors, stretched the mole, and snipped it off. As Og is my witness, I had no idea that a mole would bleed that much. By the time I realized that it was spurting, I had blood drops all over my carpet. It took me most of a role of toilet paper to get it to stop. I was so mad that I found the cut mole and roasted it with a cigarette lighter. There is nothing more appetizimg than smelling your own flesh medium rare. You’re supposed to cauterize the WOUND, not the excised material! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-of-the-self-taught-surgeon/286788.md?page=2)