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   Theodora | Feb 05, 2003 01:34am | #1

   Ladies and gentlemen, the following is an adults only link, and I fear I may be deleted. But what the hey, it comes from a  respected scientific journal. I think. The British Journal of Psychiatry.

   DIY horribly gone wrong. This gentleman felt keenly the loss of that small bit of his anatomy that his parents had had removed a few days after his birth. He wanted it back, in the worst possible way. He researched, so you can't say he didn't exercise forethought, but that's all he'll be exercising fore- anything. 

   Gentlemen, in particular, you read this at your own risk:

   http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/walter/

   "Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house."-????

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   JeffBuck | Feb 05, 2003 01:55am | #2

   I ain't reading none of those links!

   But.....I have taken lotsa my own stitches out....

   and gave a buddy stitches in his forearm....back at his apartment....at about 4 am...after one heck of a nite out on the town!

   He already had the supplies....I wasn't surprised.......

   went well......healed nicely.....how need med school?

   nowadays I have a new method though.........gel super glue. Trust me!

   JeffBuck Construction   Pittsburgh,PA

    Fine Carpentery.....While U Waite                  

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   Dant45 | Feb 05, 2003 03:45am | #3

   I kept super glue for small cuts in my shop back in 1985.  People thought I was nuts.  (maybe)  Anyway it works great on 1 to 2 stitch cuts but burns a bit.  Now they do it on EMT runs!  I should have pattened it.  DanT

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   DougU | Feb 05, 2003 07:37am | #6

   Dan

   I believe they used the cy glue in Vietnam, we use it at work all the time, works great, like you say, burns a little but so does the needle and thread thing.

   Doug

   Edited 2/5/2003 12:17:08 AM ET by Doug@es

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   CAGIV | Feb 05, 2003 11:09am | #8

   I'm in abnormal psych today, the teacher tells us a story about a 19 year old guy with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).  His particular obsession/compulsion was cleanliness

   It had become so bad he would literally stay in the shower all day, basically scrubbing off his skin.  It came to a point he couldn't take it anymore.  He went down to his basement and made attempt to kill himself with .22.  He lived and after he recovered he had no signs of his original OCD and now lives a normal life.

   The bullet being small enough missed everything important EXCEPT one pathway which connects the frontal lobe to some other part of the brain I can not remember.  This pathway controls the amount of transmission between the two parts of the brain (sorry for a lack of correct terminology I started paying attention to late) 

    Anyway studies have proven this type of brain surgery (again missing correct term)  which slightly cuts this pathway can help with OCD by limiting the amount of transmission.

   Moral of the story?  The guy saved his life by attempting suicide.  Essentially performing brain surgery on himself with a gun.

     There was a heavy do not try this home speech after the story though.

   SO DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME.  RESULTS MAY VARY

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   chiefclancy | Feb 05, 2003 05:30am | #5

   I can see why it was the subject of a psych study... I think 99.999% of men would agree that it's not worth the risk. Hope he never tried carpentry...

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   CAGIV | Feb 05, 2003 10:58am | #7

   Well I made it to the first picture, before I had to turn back. 

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   BossHog | Feb 05, 2003 04:45pm | #10

   I didn't get past the title:

   "Genital Self-mutilation:"

   No way am I gonna read that.I didn't work my way to the top of the food chain to eat vegetables.

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   Mooney | Feb 05, 2003 04:49pm | #11

   I read the whole thing . If I dont sleep  tonight,.. its your fault. <G>

   Tim Mooney

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   92588 | Feb 05, 2003 03:57am | #4

   got a luan tooth pick size splinter in fore arm at 4:10 in pm and watched my fingers curl. said to self she's[wife] not digging this one out. went straight to e.r. no pain no strain

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   diddidit | Feb 05, 2003 03:31pm | #9

   In one of the last Around Alone sailing races, Russian Victor Yazykov developed an infected abcess in one of his elbows. With advice from on-shore doctors, some vodka, and his autopilot, he preformed surgery on himself in the cabin of his boat, about 10 days out from Cape Town. Ucky!

   did

   I opened the box, and the first thing I pulled out was - well, ya know, it's just surreal being me right now...