The Stab That Remains – The Weird Side of the Internet

The Stab That Remains – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.

Paper cut. Just saying it gives you that queasy feeling, that very specific pain that comes from such a small injury. I learned that the reason paper cuts hurt so much, so sharply, is that microscopically, the edge of paper is very jagged. But that knowledge doesn’t make it hurt less.

So this story gives me a feeling similar to that. In the lovely land of Tanzania, a 44 year old man had a problem. He had a substance that rhymes with “bus” coming from his right nipple. Let’s just keep it as “bus” for we have a little decorum. So he goes to the doctor, thinking he has an infection, right? Wrong; well, right, but wrong. He did have an infection, but he als had a growth in his shoulder. A stee growth. With a sharp blade. Eight years before, he got in a fight and got stabbed so hard in the shoulder the knife blade got stick in his body.

Eight years. He survived because his body gre a tissue sheath around it, which stopped it from doing what it ordinarily would’ve done, which is kill him.

He was in a rural, poor area, and they checked him out at the time, but didn’t do an X-ray. So the knife just stayed in there.

How tough was this guy? Are all people in Tanzania this rugged? Seriously, he walked around, stabbed, for eight years. I have a related story, actually. When I was at my grandfather’s house, I was screwing around with these old flintlock pistols he had. And I was going John Wayne on them, guns at hips, but one of them worked, and I caught a little flint from it in my side. Not wanting to get in trouble, I said nothing. And to this day, I believe I have a tiny piece of flint embedded in my side.

I got twenty years of weapon storage on this guy then.

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