# Yucky and Cool at the Same Time! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 21, 2000, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yucky-and-cool-at-the-same-time/37744 "2000-10-21T02:30:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yucky-and-cool-at-the-same-time/37744/41 "2000-10-27T20:01:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SILENT-BOB \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > ## quote: > > > > ## It was proabably 2/3 of an inch. It just felt and looked a lot longer. > > > > :eek: > > > > 😃 > > Silo get your own schtick! > > 😃 \*\* :rolleyes: :wally 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yucky-and-cool-at-the-same-time/37744/42 "2000-10-27T21:36:49Z")
When I had my wisdom teeth removed (meaning the dentist stood on my face and pulled with a pair of pliers, apparently - it hurt) I went back after a week of healing to get the stitches out. It was the coolest feeling. It felt like having a really itchy itch scratched. My mother had hers out when she was younger. She always had some pain back there. Years later she was chewing on a toothpick and “fiddling” around back there with it and the rest of the wisom tooth popped out. Never hurt again. ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yucky-and-cool-at-the-same-time/37744/43 "2000-10-27T21:46:22Z")
Back in my Navy Corpsman days I did a lot of cutting and sewing on people. We always wrote down exactly how many sutures were used to close something – you don’t want to miss one when you take them out. They can fester something awful. Often, when working on areas where looks were important, we would have someone come in the next day to have half of the sutures removed. The normal duration was 7-10 days for areas subject to tension and pulling – strongest healing, but biggest scar. On the face, I’d take out half the sutures the next day, then the rest after 3 or 4 days total. There are different color sutures, so that you can use green or blue on someones scalp (or other hairy area!) to make them easy to see. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yucky-and-cool-at-the-same-time/37744/44 "2000-10-27T22:07:21Z")
Diane – regarding the bulldog – it was probably a tapeworm. _gagging_ ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yucky-and-cool-at-the-same-time/37744/45 "2000-10-28T00:38:38Z")
I had nasal polyps removed some years ago. In my case, it was an in-office procedure, and the Doctor went in through my nose. First he gave me a local. (You **don’t** want to know about that.) Then he took a really long pair of scissors and cut the polyps out and pulled them out my nose, in pieces. I could hear the scissors cutting way up inside my head. When he was done, he packed my sinuses with surgical gauze and told me to leave it in for 24 hours. I went around all the rest of that day and part of the next with my head literally stuffed with cotton. The next day I had to stand over the sink and pull **3 feet** of bloody surgical gauze out of my nose. It felt like the most gigantic booger you can imagine. I felt the most incredible rush of relief! I also had to pull 17 stiches out of my upper lip myself once, but that’s another story. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yucky-and-cool-at-the-same-time/37744/46 "2000-10-28T02:35:00Z")
In direct line with corvus: In 7th grade Home Ec class, I was a sewin’, and managed to sew completely through the tip of my index finger. It was _really cool_ pulling the finger up away from the machine, with the thread hangin’ out, but then _really gross_ when the pain hit and the blood began to spurt. So much for my experiment in domestic skills. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yucky-and-cool-at-the-same-time/37744/47 "2000-10-28T03:25:19Z")
I had really bad allergies when I was a kid, and was prone to sinus infections. During one of these sinus infections, I fell asleep while my nose was completely stopped up. The next morning, I woke up COVERED in dried mucus. Blobs (you don’t want me to describe the color) of mucus the size of my finger were clinging to my hair, my nightshirt, the sheets–evidently I had sneezed through my nose at some point in the night. ---
**Author:** ![Ad\_Noctum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@Ad\_Noctum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ad_Noctum)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yucky-and-cool-at-the-same-time/37744/48 "2000-10-28T03:46:04Z")
Y’all ain’t hear nothing yet---- I had to have the roof of my mouth cut open so that I could have brackets attached to my impacted I teeth. now, for them to make it all better, they had to put in disintegrating sutures across the WHOLE roof of my mouth- within a week of two, every once in a while, an inch or so of thread would snake it’s way out anf through the sensitive skin of the roof of my mouth. now THAT, felt pretty strange [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yucky-and-cool-at-the-same-time/37744.md?page=2)