I’m still trying to figure out how they managed to miniaturize a soft serve machine and implant it in a guy’s back.
That’s how Edward James Olmos was born.
Thanks for the loss of appetite and the last hour of my life. <sigh>
Cruel.
A few days ago, we made a cassata cake (thanks to a suggestion in a thread I started about how to use candied rind).
We had leftover filling, and I found some mini cannoli shells at the grocery store.
The filling was thick and mushy (it’s ricotta cheese), a dingy brown-ish in color (thanks to the cinnamon and chopped chocolate), slightly chunky (from the rind), and had to be piped into the cannoli shells by squeezing it out of the cut-off corner of a zip-loc bag.
You’re welcome :D.
You actually have the screw? Cool! I guess it was no longer stuck into the bone in any way by the time you had it removed.
I finally brought myself to read this thread, knowing that I’d never click the link. Even without clicking the link I feel nauseous just from reading you horrible people talk about what’s in the link!
Ah, Coldfire’s long lost twin!
And even though this thread is almost ten years old I must post the link, as it’s a classic!
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=106449&highlight=pimple
I normally love this website, but Holy Mary Mother of God…
Oh no, it was very much still in there. It was about an inch below my kneecap, pushing the skin out about 3/8".
When I went to have it removed in a simple outpatient procedure, the doctor numbed up the area, cut open the skin, attached the wrench and said ‘you might feel a pulling sensation as I back the screw out of the bone.’
He started to twist, I screamed, he stopped in surprise and said ‘you feel that?’
It felt like somebody was shocking the area with a tazer. After I gathered myself I told him to ‘just get it over with’ and he quickly twisted it out in about 5 seconds.
Yeah, I saved the damn thing. When I get a chance I will post a pic.
He didn’t expect you to feel that???
Bones hurt like hell when they’re broken - I cannot IMAGINE having a screw removed wouldn’t trigger those same nerve endings.
Of course when Dweezil broke his elbow and had to have it pinned (percutaneous - the kind that stick out from the skin) under general anesthesia, the pins were to be removed at the orthopedist’s office by just grabbing with pliers and pulling.
The orthopedist had zero plans for any kind of pain relief for this.
For an autistic 4 year old.
We called the pediatrician, who was shocked and prescribed us a sedative to give him beforehand.
Of course, the sedative didn’t do much for him - he wasn’t even drowsy until afterward - but at least the procedure was fairly quick.
Ok. And just because this is part of SDMB lore, you MUST read Broomstick’s posts, starting from #44 onwards. MUST.
You especially must read it because over the years the scar has faded to invisibility and thus that thread is the largest body of evidence that such a thing ever occurred (well, I suppose it’s also on my Permanent Record, but who ever sees that?)
Has it really been 10 years since all that happened?
That’s the thread that brought me here. It came up in a Google search. No, I won’t say what I was searching for or why.
I can’t believe I clicked that link. :eek:
What was I thinking? Two hours later, I still feel like I’m going to throw up.
My youngest broke his elbow also & that’s exactly right! Here was this 1st grader, having what amounts to a 10-penny nail yanked out of his arm (through a joint no less). I still remember him looking up at me as the Dr. pulled and saying, “Dad…? This feels … ewwwww…”. :eek: 
I can’t think of any adult that I know who could have taken it better. Tough little spud, that one.
I’m Commander-In-Chief in charge of Hunting, Popping and Squeezing in my house. The Kitten had one of those little sebaceous cyst thingies on her back. We used to call it “Vesuvius” because it would look like it would errupt every once in a while so I had to go after it and “evacuate”. After a while The Kitten thoguht it was becoming annoying and made an appointment to have it removed.
The actual procedure wasn’t that difficult… I thought. The doctor that performed it was an ancient one. Not just old… and shaking… He injected The Kitten around the site of the cyst a few times and started cutting. His hands shaked… I mean, it made Michael J. Fox look like he could do brain surgery (too soon?). He was rooting in there with a scalpel and at one point tore out what I thought must have been the cyst/hairfolicle. Left a big eye-shaped hole that was sutured by his assistant.
After the scar healed (and it is a big scar) I noticed this tiny little black spot on the edge of it… I squeezed… at it was back! Dunno what he took out, but he missed it…
PS: I did watch the video. Peanut-butter and cream cheese sammich anyone?
I am so going to show this to my 10yo daughter tonight… she will, I’m sure, react appropriately. 
Sophie is about to learn that the internet is more than American Girl and Poptropica… 
Finally watched it. It wasn’t as bad as the post lead me to think. It was bad but not that bad. I also watched it without sound.
Really?