Health and Doctor: Butcher

Butcher

By Anonymous - 23/06/2022 00:00

Today, exactly six months out from the biopsy of a spot on my leg approximately the size of a fleck of ground pepper, I have a 2-inch long scar and railroad scar dots from the stitches involved. Next time, get the dermatologist refer me to a plastic surgeon instead of doing it himself. Bonus? It still aches. FML

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By Anonymous - 26/10/2018 17:30

Today, years after I stepped on a nail and had the wound stitched, I got an X-ray. I've had serious trouble walking, and it turns out I had 2.5 inches of nail living in the sole of my foot, stabbing up into my ankle joint. I now need major surgery. FML

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By dickface - 01/04/2016 01:52 - United States - Lewisburg

Today, the cut on my face from getting hit with a baseball healed. It's left a dick-shaped scar. FML

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Nine inch nails

By Anonymous - 07/06/2022 02:00

Today, mere hours after getting my knee out of plaster and walking normally again, I stepped on a giant nail, which went through my shoe and came out of the top of my foot. Surgery on the splintered bone, bandages, and no putting weight on it for at least 2 weeks. Here I go again. FML

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By Lena - 27/03/2009 04:07 - United States

Today, I got a small scar on my faced removed at a plastic surgeon's. Afterward, I told my mom that losing the scar felt weird, like I lost something that gave me character. My mom replied, "Don't worry, you have plenty of other flaws to give you character." FML

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Back to square one

By Anonymous - 10/05/2022 10:00

Today, I finally got the cast off my leg after being unable to walk for 6 weeks, watching daytime TV or playing my husband's Xbox all day. The second the plaster came off, I tried to stand up, tripped over the doctor's foot and broke the apparently still not fully healed leg again in the same spot. FML

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By Anonymous - 06/01/2011 07:35

Today, I was at the doctor's getting some skin scraped off the bottom of my foot for some tests. As soon as the doctor grabbed my foot, it tickled and I accidentally kicked him in the face. During this, the blade sliced my foot open. FML

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Old school cool

By omfgitburns - 06/01/2011 14:54

Today, I had a plaster cast removed from my arm. After telling the nurse it felt like the saw was cutting my skin, she tells me there is no way that it could touch my skin and that I was being paranoid. She cracked open the cast. Burns, blisters and bleeding skin were revealed. FML

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By Anonymous - 06/10/2015 04:18 - United States - Lake Oswego

Today, at my annual checkup, the doc looks down at my foot and says, "Oh, you have an extra toenail. Six, huh?" Then sort of scraping at the side of my foot below the pinky toe, he pulls off a long piece of dead, dried skin and says, "Oh." FML

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By boreed - 27/12/2010 05:37 - United States

Today, I finally got an unsightly mole on my face removed. While I was shaving. FML

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By Anonymous - 28/10/2009 08:03 - United States

Today, I cut my finger open with a spoon. After waiting for 4 hours in the emergency room, the doctor told me I was missing too much flesh to qualify for stitches. He then called 2 other doctors in to examine it. Apparently they had a contest for patient with most ridiculous injury. I won. FML

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slkeithh 14

Thursday 23 June 2022 0:23

That blows and I'm sorry, but it sounds like he did a full excision with wide margins, which is standard practice when there are any concerns for malignancy.

MinyaSylvanas 4

Thursday 23 June 2022 2:33

If it still aches, I'd have that checked out if I were you.

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slkeithh 14

Thursday 23 June 2022 0:23

That blows and I'm sorry, but it sounds like he did a full excision with wide margins, which is standard practice when there are any concerns for malignancy.

MinyaSylvanas 4

Thursday 23 June 2022 2:33

If it still aches, I'd have that checked out if I were you.

tiptoppc 19

Thursday 23 June 2022 15:40

Might have cut a nerve. It happens. My femur aches 12 years after snapping it like a toothpick. You end up learning to ignore or deal with it.

RichardPencil 30

Thursday 23 June 2022 6:07

A plastic surgeon to do a biopsy? Are you crazy? There's no money in that! You should have financed a Brazilian Butt Lift and asked him to toss in the biopsy for free.

Sertorius 10

Thursday 23 June 2022 6:14

On the plus side, not dead!

Anderling 32

Thursday 23 June 2022 8:17

The size of the scar being way bigger than the spot when malignant cancer is suspected is 100% the standard because you don’t want to be the doctor getting a malpractice suit for not getting rid of all of it. It might be worth checking with your GP for the pain, though. That should not be happening.