things found in unusual places

Came across this yesterday. How could you not know something was there. Interestingly, I have a friend who was shot in the knee with a shot gun and had 100+ pellets left in his leg after they quit digging and after 30 years he still gets them working their way out from time to time.
lost in arm.

My brother had surgery for appendicitis. He always had an itch afterward. Eventually a stitch surfaced and after it was removed the itch went away also.

At my Uncle's funeral, my Aunt said that a Hospice nurse found a lump in his arm and was going to mention it to his DR. He said don't bother, it is a grenade fragment from Korea.
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Couldn't get the link to work on my pad. Is this about the turn signal lever in his arm? It's strange his body didn't reject it like a metal sliver. Must have been one heckuva impact for it to be driven that far up in his arm blunt end first. I can't imagine how sore his arm was after the accident. Maybe he has nerve damage preventing him from feeling it after it healed?

OK, now the link came up! Maybe the chrome on the lever prevented rejection. Marilyn's new hip is part chromium so it must be compatible with the body.

Same here. I have a chunk of metal in my right thumb, and I have no idea how or when it got there. It showed up when my hand was x-rayed for something else. The doctor said as long as it wasn't bothering, it would be best to just leave it alone.

Also, I had a bit of squamish cell carcinoma removed from my right temple last summer. A nurse took the stitches out a week later. There was one spot that never seemed to heal. At my six week checkup a piece of a stitch was found.

I had a friend that was in a truck accident with injuries. After he was out of the hospital for a while his arm itched & didn't feel right. They x-rayed it & found a piece of glass in it. It was tinted from the windshield so it showed up in the x-ray.

i have had bullet fragments in my spleen for over 8 years now--would never know they were there.
x ray techs always get excited when they see the film!

I cut a V in my head from just above my left eye through the eyebrow last year. I always take out my own stitches but I had a heck of a time with these. I had a piece of suture with no knot that stuck out by the outside corner of my eye. When I pulled it my forehead moved. I finally went back to the ER (small town). I told her the predicament and she looked at my eye from across the desk and said that she could tell that "Mitchell" had done them. He trained as a thoracic surgeon so he does this fancy business. He won't use dissolving stitches, either. By the time I was done I was laying on a table and there were four nurses and a doctor trying to figure it out. They finally went digging with a scalpel and found things hidden and got them pulled. Two weeks later a knot appeared by my nose. I pulled on it and a two inch line of black suture pulled out of my head. Quack.

I had the same thing happen. While my hand was X-rayed for a smashed finger. The doctor said did I know there was a very small piece of metal in my hand from something else. Stan

I thought that was wild, some of the things our body some puts up with or minimizes to the point nothing is done about it. In this case, and I saw the photo before you posted it, that is a substantial piece of metal, I cannot even imagine, (and they do x-ray you prior to) what would happen if he was placed in an MRI machine ! All that comes to mind is the Wile E Coyote episode with the large magnet in the cave, and the Eiffel tower and the trail of objects being drawn in ! LOL !

I had a nice piece of white pine stuck in my forearm, just below my elbow for months, as I determined it came from the trailer loads of rough cut lumber we were handling for a business we had when I was in high school. I was cutting the boards to size on an old C H & E sawrig, and must have picked up this large sliver somehow, thing was almost 2" long. I was in english class when something was bothering me on my arm so I had scratched it, felt a bump, gave it a squeeze and this now rounded smooth piece of white or some kind of pine started poking out ! This was the middle of winter, I had not cut a board since the summer time. It looked like my body was trying to consume it or something was working on it, very smooth all around.

I saw that on the news yesterday. How does that not hurt for 51 years?

Just do not have an MRI with steel in your body, it will come out, without the doctor being there to remove it.