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[–] Agent641 6 points 1 day ago

That's actually just the tail skin that it shed when it entered.

[–] finitebanjo 10 points 1 day ago

Its a common prank to sew these into people while they sleep, I forget what the kits are called but they get bought cheap single use online.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

those are the strings used to puppeteer you, don't cut them or you'll "die"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Hello charlotte

[–] [email protected] 115 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I've had one of those super long hairs be ingrown. It just coiled in on itself. I thought it was a black spot, so I dug it out with a sharp pair of tweezers. Once I got it and started pulling, it just kept going. Hair and puss came out and it felt terrible. Once I got it out it healed very quickly and felt much better, so I'm glad I did it, but that feeling still creeps me out.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I needed to have "under the skin" stitches removed for a surgery that went across my throat from almost ear to ear. For whatever reason they did not use the type that dissolve but I was told that they would be removed after a few weeks. When they did, the process was to cut the knot and proceed to pull what seemed like a two foot long and thick hair out of me. It was like a magician pulling handkerchiefs from his hat. It just would not end and it felt awful.

[–] Tyfud 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait until you get a stint pulled out of your urethra

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately...multiple times.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Holy shit, new nightmare unlocked.

I've had some horrific shit done to me for medical purposes. What got me through it was remembering two things. First of all, this is all to fix something else, it may get bad but it will get better. Second of all, pain is only temporary and exists only in my body/mind, it holds no power over me and it will pass.

Hope you had have fixed whatever was wrong, that makes something like that worth it.

Stitches that desolve are excellent. I hate the kind that needs to be monitored and removed manually. But I hate it even more when they use the staple kind, there is something just not right in using staples on a human being.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Heh, I had to have like 200 stitches removed from when I had my hand crushed and we got snowed in two appointments in a row so I just got scissors and tweezers and went to work.

The best way was every other stitch you cut.

Takes forever if you do them one at a time, but the draggy feeling just gets to be way too much if you go for three.

Makes me shiver just thinking about 3.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

The doctor that did my surgery specializes in neck and head cancer. Because cancer sucks enough, he likes to leave no visible scar. I do not know how he does it but the net result is a scar with two tiny knots at each end. To remove, they cut the knots at each end and pull on one side. It leaves a hair thin line of discoloration rather than your typical Frankenstein thick scar with staples or stitch lines.

[–] shoki 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

what does "snowed" mean in this context?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Actual snow from the sky covering the roads till they shut them down

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

When it snows so much that the roads become undrivable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ugh, reminds me of my drain removal after top surgery, and those suckers were nearly the diameter of a pencil eraser.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

So the surgery I was talking about was for an aggressive thyroid cancer that had spread. The bonus to the stitch removal was the two drain lines they had to pull from my neck. At least those were more of a dull tugging, but I could feel the line slide across my throat. Yuck.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I bet the smell was amazing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Dr_Fetus_Jackson 5 points 2 days ago

Did you bring enough for the rest of the class?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

reminds me of the time my dad's cat got into the sewing machine and I had to pull like 3 yards of string out of his mouth.

[–] HereIAm 3 points 2 days ago

I'm assuming he just ate the thread, and his tongue wasn't ran over by the sewing machine 😬

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I had one of them in my left arm right at like the bottom of the shoulder muscle. Only thing that happened with it was the pore like... Stretched out until it was about the size of the pump needle you use for like a basketball. Even after finally getting the hair out of it the pore never fully closed back up. I like to joke that it's my vaccine injection port but it's like an inch or so too low for where they usually put them.

[–] SpruceBringsteen 58 points 3 days ago

One day you'll pull the last of it out and then you deflate

[–] Dasnap 46 points 3 days ago (5 children)

All of my nipple hairs are like 3-4 inches long.

[–] Agent641 2 points 1 day ago

You could do a comb-over

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago

OP came here to ask a question not to listen to you brag.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago

Those are tassels

[–] IndiBrony 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How else would you keep them warm? Intelligent design proved!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

it's a DIY niple warmer. you just need to braid or crochet it yourself

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago

Sometimes they don't cut them all to the same size at the factory.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago

They can happen to anyone. Some hypothesis why they happen include: uv damage to skin, hormonal imbalences, malnourishment, and genetic factors.

I once had one on my shoulder and it really weirded me out lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I get one of these long hairs on the very top of my ears. It's weird.

[–] ZombieMantis 2 points 1 day ago

What channels did ya get?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

dude you have atennae?!?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I have one of these on my forehead, it grows to around 2 inches or so, and its white or light blond (the rest of my hair is brown)

[–] Dasnap 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think we have the same mod installed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Same here, wtf is that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I used to have one pop up ever so often on my neck, which was weird because up until a few years ago I didn't even grow facial hair.

Just like overnight all of a sudden I would have a 2-in long white hair sticking out of my neck.

[–] sheridan 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Occasionally I'll have an eyelash grow this long.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

? Doesn't bother you at all before it gets that long?

[–] sheridan 11 points 2 days ago

Somehow I don't even notice it until it's that long. It's always white too. Happened to me like five times so far.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I had one too, on my left arm. Yeah it's weird.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I have a single hair on the tip of my nose. It doesn't grow this long, maximum 2-3 mm, I always pull it out when I notice it in the mirror, but it always regrows in the exact same location.

[–] Droggelbecher 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I have one singular belly hair that is like 2-3cm long and not even in the centre. It's like ten centimetres to the side of my belly button. The rest of my belly hair is peach fuzz (part black part white). That one also always regrows.

Edit: I have a few nose hairs that are black and a bit more course than usual face fuzz. Like maybe about ten?

[–] Dr_Fetus_Jackson 2 points 2 days ago

Sounds like my chest hair. It's just the one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Have you considered zapping it with laser or electrolysis?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, it doesn't bother me that much, it was just a fun fact, to show OP she is not alone. Never thought I should do something more about it, it's not a big deal pulling it out every 1-2 months, and I don't really care about my look.

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[–] latenightnoir 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Some positronic fibres are known to grow out of control in a negligible amount of cases and may protrude through the epidermal sheath. Won't affect the implant in any way. Looks like you got the lucky draw!

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[–] Thcdenton 3 points 2 days ago

Got one of these on the small of my back. Forget about it until it grows super long lol

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