Owee owee owee. There’s a splinter in my thumb. Tweezers aren’t reaching it. Anyone got any tips on getting it out? Home remedies, things gramma might have told you (assuming they really work). Hurry, before it gets infected and the infection spreads and I turn into a mutated-monster-thing and the national guard has to be called out to take me down before I harm more of the populace.
Damn splinter.
<ahem> I OFFERED you MY remedy. As I recall you didn’t take me up on it.
Hrmph.
Oh, as I remember it, I DID take you up on it. But the thousand or so mile space between us just makes it a little difficult. And I can’t wait a month. You know, the whole infection thing.
Not that I didn’t appreciate your idea, of course. 
Just, I need something more immediate.
Have you tried soaking it in salt water? Or vinegar? Or just cutting off your thumb? See, this is why I wanna be a housewife someday. I need an outlet for all this empathy.
And your pitiful attempt at justification does NOT appease me. C’mere and PROVE you’re sorry!
Salt water or vinegar, eh? I’ll try that.
(I’ll ignore the cutting off the thumb idea, thank you very much. But I do appreciate your empathy nonetheless.)
And I AM coming there to prove it. But if we start having cyber-monkey-sex in this thread, everyone else is going to get embarassed and leave without giving me their own personal splinter-removal methods.
cyber monkey sex? :eek:
I’m leaving. (I’m a prude)
Since you asked…
I do a lot of wood-working, and am forever getting wood AND metal splinters. You’re lucky it’s wood. When I can’t get it with tweezers, I take a needle and sort of pick the outer layer of skin away until I can dig out the splinter. Really, it’s not as awful as it sounds.
I was raking leaves once, and a 1/2 inch splinter from the rake handle jammed into my palm and broke off under my skin. I was all by my little lonesome, too. So, with sweat pouring off my brow, I took a razor blade and a needle and was forced to do surgery on myself (it was that deep). I did get some relief by pouring Anbesol over it. Hurt like a bastard, though.
Ouch. Almost makes me feel like a baby crying about my little ol’ splinter. Almost.
Thanks for the advice. I’ll grab a needle and try it out!
If it does get infected, usually the pus will push it out…
Ewwww!
Yay! Splinter is out! Woo-hoo! Soaked it in salt water, then dug around with a pin. Came right out.
Thanks, everyone!
Uh-huh. You see? Salt water. Who’s yer daddy? SAY MY NAME!!
Nymysys