Heard that one the other day and I was like "What?!?" but it does make a certain kind of sense. There are definitely circumstances in which I can see it being necessary.

Do these have to be *successful* "Do it yourself" procedures? There's certainly some crazy ass stuff I did when I was a kid to avoid getting caught. But the instance I'm thinking of I was totally unsuccessful. Didn't help that what I was trying to remove was a shell casing rather than a bb, which is what I thought it was.

was cleaning up the house and throwing some papers away and a blood thristy little staple took a pretty nasty chunk of my thumb with it.  I didn't think much of it, but I noticed it had to be at least a mm and a half deep and got snagged on things, so I squeezed it together and glued that bitch up.  It does wonders.

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I have given myself injections (not that big of a deal), done the super glue thing to a nasty cut, pulled a shard of wood (not a splinter, a shard, this thing was freaking huge) out of my arm with a Leatherman tool, and stitched someone else up with a 99-cent sewing kit after he drunkenly stuck his arm into a running fan.

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in a funeral home and as an operating room technician so there's not much I have't seen.  I'm always doing self-surgeries, etc.  Nothing major though.  I did cut open my brother's arm to dig out a piece of broken glass before though...  he passed out, the WIMP!!

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Ive set a broke finger or two, and a few toes. Ive popped my shoulder back in a couple of times and tried to pop my thumb back in place but as the picture shows that was not a dislocation. It looked like it but it turned out to be bones going in 2 directions. I had to sew up my pointer finger on a fishing trip to Canada, lost the feeling in the tip of my finger for my troubles. And Ive lanced a couple of huge zit like things on my face. If you cant tell I don't like doctors! 

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You, Sir, are a badass! Stay healthy.

y'know, one of those ones that feels kinda deep and infected, more like a cyst? Tons of goop came out, followed by lots of blood. I swear, this thing must've spread out across several square inches under my skin, based on how much came out of it. I still have a visible scar from it.

Aaand after remembering that incident, please excuse me while I go have a sympathy puke :X

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Those are the things I was talking about too. As Cleveland would say "Oh thats nasty!"

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Jayguana

for the funeral home?  Hmmmmm

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really good on those places where band-aids won't stick well.... I meant like between your FINGERS!

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Does it count that I had my hubby slice off a skin tag (those little blobs of skin) with a rasor blade? Never doing that again. Bled like a sum'bitch!

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with a hunting knife and a pair of toe nail clippers going after a wart when I was in high school because I hated the topical stuff my parents gave me to use since it didn't work.

The bathroom looked like a crime scene when I was done.

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Ever had them do the novacain into your palate? Geez that hurts, or for your top front teeth? Feels like the needle is going into your brain and then your nose is numb and you think you're smothering.

Best has to be the 2 times I had gum surgery where they sliced a chunk of flesh out of the roof of my mouth, made a slit in the gum and patched that hunk of flesh in there. Bled and bled and bled and hurt... now I need to go lie down.

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I cut a fishing hook out of the side of my pinky with a fillet knife once. One other time I cut the side of my knee open on glass. I hate doctors also so I cut up some tape and taped it closed. Just a small scar now...

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.....dealing with death. That could lead to heart attacks, strokes, etc.

Simply tie it off at the root and it will fall off on its own in a day or two. You're actually cutting off the blood supply to the tag. Same principle as the use for castrating bulls, but this is nowhere near that painful. At least I assume getting your nards tied off would really hurt. Never actually tried it.

That is great!! Why do most of our dumbest stunts ruin bathrooms? 

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Jayguana

with a slice i got falling down on rocks while drunk skinny dipping in australia ... it didn't heal properly now I have a massive scar on my wrist that i have to tell people is animal related because I'm far too mature to get drunk and naked and fall down 

It always ends in self administered toe surgery from ingrowing toenails... messy and painful but afterwards it's such a relief.  I also used to have a really dodgy crooked nose from it being broken so many times until the most recent when a friend head butted me by accident while drunk and stoned and my dad reset it for me ... his proudest moment as a doctor as it's now pin straight and he gloats about it to his plastic surgeon mate.  Alright so it doesn't count as DIY medical procedures but what opportunities do I get when dad's a doctor mum's a nurse and brother's a paramedic.