Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

What to you have in your body that wasn't there when you were born?

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread
This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » The DU Lounge Donate to DU
 
Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 09:34 PM
Original message
What to you have in your body that wasn't there when you were born?
(Not counting false teeth.) I'll start:

-Couple inches of Dacron tubing replacing blowout in renal vein.

-Nylon replacement navicular bone in wrist.

-Teflon kneecap.

-Odds and bits of steel. Few screws, but mostly fragments.

You?

Redstone
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 09:36 PM
Response to Original message
1. As far as I know, there's still a LEGO piece floating around in there.
It went in when I was seven...still hasn't come out. :shrug:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 03:01 PM
Response to Reply #1
103. are you trying to say that you searced for it???
cos you KNOW what that means...eeeewwwww GROSS


























and, I work in the ER and I still think it is GROSS
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 09:37 PM
Response to Original message
2. Nothing.
But one never knows. I've been very lucky.

Teflon kneecap? What warrants that, I have to ask?

Hey, Redstone...good to see you around, bro.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 09:47 PM
Response to Reply #2
9. What warrants that is when it gets broken into enough pieces that
the pieces can't be reassembled and held together long enough to heal.

It's good to be back, and I do appreciate your concern, as you know. Let it never be said that I can't survive a storm.

Redstone
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 09:52 PM
Response to Reply #9
11. Cripes! What happened?
Redstone? Not survive a storm? I'd like the e-mail addy of the one that suggested that. There's a Nigerian that needs to move some money, and I'd like to hook them up.

And yeah, I know. Still, good to see you.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:02 PM
Response to Reply #11
14. Very few people know, and they're not saying. Long and twisted story,
involving astonishingly bad (and escalatingly worse) judgment(s) on my part. But hey, I was young, and $1500 per month was damn good money 34 years ago. Even if I did only get about eight months of it.

But that's a story for a long night with copious quantities of beer to lubricate the gears of conversation...

Redstone
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:11 PM
Response to Reply #14
17. Well, sir
I look forward to that long night of beer and conversation.

Cheers, my friend.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:15 PM
Response to Reply #17
20. Cheers, indeed.
Maybe some day you and LM will come to visit. We have plenty of room.

Redstone
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:19 PM
Response to Reply #20
22. To be honest
I'd really, really like that.

I would very much like to hear more about some things from our last discussion. You're far, far more educated and worldly than I in those things, sir.

Yata hey, right?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:28 PM
Response to Reply #22
30. Indian is as Indian does. Never forget that.
It only takes but the one drop of blood; the rest is state of mind.

I'd welcome and enjoy such further discussion. Don't pack light, though; these are not matters to be dispensed with in one evening.

Redstone
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:20 PM
Response to Reply #30
49. I won't.
Until later, sir.

Thank you.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 09:37 PM
Original message
Nothing that I'm aware of.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 09:40 PM
Response to Original message
7. You forgot something.
You forgot that The Floogeldy Man is in your head! A HA HA! HA HA HA HA! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. A HA HA! HA HA HA HA! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. A HA HA! HA HA HA HA! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. A HA HA! HA HA HA HA! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. A HA HA! HA HA HA HA! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. :scared:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 09:48 PM
Response to Reply #7
10. May I suggest some decaf?
Redstone
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:17 PM
Response to Reply #10
21. Of course, you may.
Just no pool cues to the head, mkay? ;)

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:19 PM
Response to Reply #21
23. Hey, don't threaten me with a knife, and I won't whack you with a cue.
That's a fair deal, yes?

Redstone
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:24 PM
Response to Reply #23
26. Yes Sir
That is fair. :)

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 09:37 PM
Response to Original message
3. Wrong question.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
knowbody0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 09:37 PM
Response to Original message
4. Cesarean smile
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 09:39 PM
Response to Original message
5. Am missing parts
Edited on Wed May-03-06 09:40 PM by Whoa_Nelly
but nothing has been added....

on edit:
except for scars...surgical and "OMG That Was STUPID!" type of scars
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:53 PM
Response to Reply #5
122. Missing about 1/4 of a thumb, but nothing added that I know of
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 09:40 PM
Response to Original message
6. Fillings? My nuvaring?
:shrug: I haven't had had a lot of medical stuff done. One surgery as an infant but that was to correct a defect and not the sort of thing that leaves half a toolbox of hardware behind to make life fun at the airport.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 09:47 PM
Response to Original message
8. No extras, just some minor missing piece.
Part of a pinkie I left behind on a door jamb in High School.

Though I did leave half a pencil in somebody's belly in the sixth grade...




Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 09:53 PM
Response to Original message
12. I have a bunch of metal going through my body.
Ink in my skin.

Sake in my tummy. Mmm...sake. :9
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:14 PM
Response to Reply #12
46. Same here....
Well, ok, I have boring old American wine ;)

6 ear holes
3 tattoos
1 IUD

I think that's it...
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:18 PM
Response to Reply #46
48. I just had a tiny bit of sake.
Someone left enough in the bottle to fill up only two of those tiny sake cups. I'm onto the rum now.

I have...
(7) holes in my left ear...0g lobe, 10g lobe, tragus, conch, rook, industrial
(6) holes in my right ear...0g lobe, 10g lobe, tragus, conch, rook, helix
(1) diamond nose stud

Seven tattoos so far.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:27 PM
Response to Reply #48
51. Wow, dude!
That's a lot of (big) holes!! I've got 2 14s in each ear, and then two tiny ones in addition (lobe and upper lobe (?)) in the right ear. I want an industrial, but have heard bad things about the pain and healing, and being diabetic, that's not something I'm willing to tackle. The cartilage hole I *do* have took 18 months to heal!

Three tattoos... one small tribal on my upper back, and the kanji for strength (right foot) and perseverance (left foot). What do you have?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:47 PM
Response to Reply #51
55. It took awhile to heal the industrial.
The only cartilage piercing I really had problems with was the helix. I got it done on my 18th birthday with a gun before I knew any better.

The tattoos are...
Lower back-Tribal with a Celtic Triskele in the center
Base of neck-Om inside a sun
Upper Right arm-Barbed wire armband
Pretty big kanji for strength inside arm band (getting a tattoo going up to your armpit SUCKS!!! But I got it because I've only broken
bones on people with my right arm)
Left forearm-Celtic Trinity Knot
Right forearm-Inverted Celtic Trinity Knot
Above Right ankle- Kanji for balance inside Japanese-style ocean waves and sun rays

I want two more. A large Celtic cross on my back with "for my father" written around the top in Gaelic (in memory of my dad) and a Gonzo fist on my left leg or upper left arm. I've been tossing around the idea of getting a half sleeve on my left arm for a long time.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 12:01 AM
Response to Reply #55
57. Wow, nice.
Yeah, my cartilage was a gun, same deal. Ick.

Your tattoos sound really cool, but I can't imagine the pain of inside upper arm... OW. I have one I want on my left shoulder down around upper left arm, but have yet to find the money and right artist to have it done. My husband said that the inside of the band was pretty bad...
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 12:06 AM
Response to Reply #57
59. Piercing guns are so bad.
I had so many problems the first time I had my lobes pierced and it took forever to get my gunned cartilage to heal. Everything else has been easy. Not to mention, that "ear solution" stuff is crap. The best thing is sea salt soaks. It definitely cuts down the healing time.

With the inside upper arm, I remember at one point thinking she was up towards my arm pit already. I looked over and she was working on the bottom. She was like, "This hurts doesn't it? I can tell because you're really quiet and normally we hold full conversations during the tattoo." I lost a lot of ink in the healing too, so I had to go and get it touched up. The touchup wasn't as bad though. This time is healed beautiful (it's solid black).

I'm lucky because I have an artist that is really good and we're friends now. So I get hooked up on stuff.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 12:10 AM
Response to Reply #59
60. Yeah, they suck.
And you're usually too young to know any better when you make that mistake. I won't ever again, though.

That's great that you have an artist who you know and trust so much! I haven't really had the money around to get my tat (and my husband gets his next one first anyway :)), so I haven't done much looking yet around here. Awesome on getting hooked up for stuff, that rocks!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
theophilus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 09:54 PM
Response to Original message
13. Adult teeth. n/t
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:06 PM
Response to Original message
15. Steel plate in my pelvis
Plastic acetabular cup (part of hip joint)
Titanium stem and ball (part of hip joint)
Various dental fillings and one tooth cap
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:08 PM
Response to Original message
16. Nicotine
I Think that's about it.

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:12 PM
Response to Reply #16
18. Oh, I'm so sorry you missed out on that.
My mom smoked during pregnancy.

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:26 PM
Response to Reply #18
28. Yeah
I was deprived...
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:29 PM
Response to Reply #28
31. I smell a lawsuit!
;)

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:38 PM
Response to Reply #31
39. Do you really?
All I smell is a cigarette. Which is weird since the smoking area is outside the building and at the very back of the park across the street.

Wishful thinking.

I'm bored.

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
eyepaddle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:14 PM
Response to Original message
19. I think there are a few wires
left over in my jaw from having it surgically shortened and wired shut.

Having jaw surgery, it sounds painful, it looks horrible, and not eating for a few moths is a drag, but honestly, it didn't really hurt much.

Certainly much less than I expected.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:22 PM
Response to Reply #19
25. Surgically shortened? Have an underbite, did you? Or what?
Redstone
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
eyepaddle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:28 PM
Response to Reply #25
29. I think the term was "undershot"
The lower jaw stuck out a bit in front of the upper. They cut just behind where the wisdom teeth would be (they take those out first) and just move the jaw back a bit.

I'm mostly of Scandinavian descent, but I had a classic "British strong-jaw." No longer!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:30 PM
Response to Reply #29
32. Ow! Ow! Ouch!!!
Glad it's long over with for you.

Redstone
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
eyepaddle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:36 PM
Response to Reply #32
36. It was like, 18 years ago or something close to it.
Your face swells up an ASTONISHING amount, but it really hurt less than having teeth pulled! I almost felt guilty about takng the codeine they prescribed.

Almost! :D
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:39 PM
Response to Reply #36
40. Almost guilty, but not quite...I understand that part.
Hey, we all need to be able to have a bit of fun once in a while.

Redstone
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
eyepaddle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:47 PM
Response to Reply #40
42. Exxx---accttttlllllly!
:evilgrin:

Glad you pulled through your trials and tribulations Redstone,

I'm gonna hit the rack for the night, g'night!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:21 PM
Response to Original message
24. various vaccines
couple fillings and some supper
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:24 PM
Response to Original message
27. My dear Redstone......
I don't believe that I have any extraneous parts inside me.....

But, still, I just wanted to come say hello!

:hi: :loveya: :hug:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:36 PM
Response to Reply #27
37. Hey, CP; good to hear from you, it is.
The storm's blown through and I'm still standing. Had some damn high winds, that one did, but I stood in the teeth of it and dared it knock me down.

Though the relaxation of last Sunday's drive through Vermont with the convertible top down would have healed anything. It was the therapy I needed. And in the middle of it, I went to church, of all things. Will miracles never cease?

Redstone
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:31 PM
Response to Original message
33. I once swallowed a penny I don't recall ever seeing again.
:D
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:34 PM
Response to Reply #33
34. Someone eventually saw it.
Prolly in the belly of a catfish. ;)

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:36 PM
Response to Reply #34
35. I hope they didn't eat it.
Yum. Twice digested penny! :9
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:37 PM
Response to Reply #35
38. No problem.
After all, you ate it. ;)

I'd eat it.


Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:42 PM
Response to Reply #38
41. Hey, I was six or something.
You're an adult. :P
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:48 PM
Response to Reply #41
43. *Snicker* *Snicker*
I'm what?

A HA HA! HA HA HA HA! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. A HA HA! HA HA HA HA! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. A HA HA! HA HA HA HA! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. A HA HA! HA HA HA HA! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. A HA HA! HA HA HA HA! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. :scared:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:50 PM
Response to Reply #43
45. Technically, at least.
:eyes:

:P
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-09-06 08:58 PM
Response to Reply #33
131. Comedian John Pinnette on swallowed money:
he did a bit about some health freak who told him how to cleanse his colon, and he's ranting at her over the phone (while on the can) -- " my colon is CLEANSED!" and he rants on with various examples ". . . I swallowed a quarter when I was seven, I just got fifty dollars! . . . "

:shrug:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:49 PM
Response to Original message
44. Hearing aides!!
But they are drunkenly pulled out laid on the night table every night, so i don't know if that counts.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:15 PM
Response to Original message
47. A diseased brain
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Jazz2006 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:23 PM
Response to Original message
50. Some wires embedded on the inner side of
my bottom teeth. A "permanent retainer" as it were, after having had braces twice, so that my damned teeth will stay put and not go crooked again.

And a puncture mark on my heart from where doctors jabbed a needle directly into it when I was 7 weeks old to save my life.

That's about it.



Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:30 PM
Response to Reply #50
52. Ok, you *have* to tell that story....
I've got permanent retainers as well... forgot about those.

But why the heck did you need a heart shot at 7 weeks old??
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Jazz2006 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 01:39 AM
Response to Reply #52
66. Long story but the short version is....
preemie, spent the first several weeks in hospital, went home, whooping cough (but I was too young for vaccine), back to hospital, there for the weekend, supposedly okay, back home, not okay after all, stopped breathing, ambulance, heart stopped, doctor taking desperate measures to save my life plunged a needle (not sure what was in it) into my heart, heart started again, stayed in hospital for a few more weeks and ... here I am 43 years later, healthy and happy.



Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:33 PM
Response to Original message
53. Absolutely nothing. I am all natural.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:46 PM
Response to Original message
54. Contact lenses, several fillings,
and waaaaay too many extra pounds.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:56 PM
Response to Original message
56. One less kidney
I was born with three.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Jazz2006 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 01:42 AM
Response to Reply #56
67. Whoa ~ that's certainly unusual.
What did they do with the spare one?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 01:34 PM
Response to Reply #67
97. It was malformed and prone to infection
so, unfortunately, it wouldn't have been useful to anyone. It may still be in a jar of formaldehyde at Johns Hopkins. The doctors told us that they'd be using a film of my operation to help train surgeons. That was almost 30 years ago, though. The whole procedure may be ancient history.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Jazz2006 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 01:45 AM
Response to Reply #97
116. Well....
it probably did teach a whole lot of doctors something they may not have ever seen otherwise and that can't be a bad thing.

So, it doesn't matter that the extra organ was probably not useful to someone as a viable organ... the value of the research and study that could come from it, though - wow!

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 12:05 AM
Response to Original message
58. dinner?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 12:11 AM
Response to Original message
61. Today's digested dinner!
Edited on Thu May-04-06 12:11 AM by JVS
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
gardenista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 12:49 AM
Response to Original message
62. Well, it appears I have PCBs, DDT, oh, and chemical flame retardant
in my breast tissue. And then there's the mercury, uranium, and cotinine, from when I smoked many years ago.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=5012

Scary stuff

And I don't remember ever putting that stuff in. It just got there. Ok, I take responsibility for the cotinine, but that's it.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
tonekat Donating Member (832 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 12:07 PM
Response to Reply #62
93. Teflon
mom and dad just couldn't bring themselves to replace that flaky non stick pan.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
gardenista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 01:37 AM
Response to Reply #93
115. Oh yeah, and it was one of those electric frying pans, so it was used
over, and over, and over, and over

Well, as Joe Jackson says, everything gives you cancer.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 12:52 AM
Response to Original message
63. lots of useless knowledge
memories of shit that I wish I could forget

fillings

lots of plaque in various forms and places I imagine, as well as parasites no doubt.

as of a few minutes ago, a couple of ounces of decent Irish whiskey . . .
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
In_The_Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 01:02 AM
Response to Original message
64. Just a few dental fillings have been added.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Jazz2006 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 01:44 AM
Response to Reply #64
68. Ah, yes.... I forgot about the fillings but I had the amalgam ones removed
and replaced with the pretty ones that make it look like I have no fillings at all

:D

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 01:04 AM
Response to Original message
65. A Grail
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 01:46 AM
Response to Reply #65
70. You're the Castle Aaargh?
:shrug:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 10:10 AM
Response to Reply #70
89. Aaaaarrrhhh.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 01:45 AM
Response to Original message
69. Not new, just rearranged
I had a bone graft from my elbow to my nose after it was broken.

Dental fillings and a crown.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
NorthernSpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 02:27 AM
Response to Original message
71. probably some strontium 90 and other radionuclides from Chernobyl
The radioactive plume went all over the northern hemisphere. I was a kid at the time, and I can't remember whether my parents decided to avoid milk in the weeks after the big kaboom.

So there might be some strontium 90 in my bones -- which I resent very much.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Random_Australian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 02:30 AM
Response to Original message
72. Nothing.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 03:00 AM
Response to Original message
73. A piece of my 61st birthday cake.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 05:40 AM
Response to Reply #73
76. ROFL!
Best post ever! :rofl:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 05:48 AM
Response to Reply #76
77. Ahh.... but I wasn't kidding!
Edited on Thu May-04-06 05:49 AM by Seabiscuit
My wife made me a birthday cake a day late (and I was eating it when I posted this).
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 06:39 AM
Response to Reply #77
78. Happy 61st Birthday!
That just makes it funnier!

I look forward to having a piece of my 60th, 70th, and 80th birthday cake inside me someday as well.

:party:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
fudge stripe cookays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 05:26 AM
Response to Original message
74. Not much put in...
just a couple of fillings, I guess.

Taken out:
1 ovary
set of tonsils
5 wisdom teeth (including an impacted molar)

Adjusted:
1 belly button that popped open after birth
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 05:39 AM
Response to Original message
75. Some scars and scratches
fillings in my teeth. Some pierced ear holes, 4 to be exact. Thats it I think, oh and some silicone bands strategically placed to prevent pregnancy when I was 21.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 07:57 AM
Response to Original message
79. Enough dental fillings, caps and implant to build a battleship.
Also, lemon loaf and crackers.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 11:06 AM
Response to Reply #79
91. Four slugs, one's lead and the rest are Bourbon.
:rofl:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 08:03 AM
Response to Original message
80. The clap.
:shrug:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 08:08 AM
Response to Original message
81. poo
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
miss_american_pie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 08:10 AM
Response to Original message
82. One filling, a lump of scar tissue from an iv,
and supposedly you always carry fetal tissue from your pregnancies, so little people cells.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
SacredCow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 08:13 AM
Response to Original message
83. Abdominal wall reinforcement...
Teflon-based (I think), installed in the course of a bilaterial hernia repair.

Amalgam and polymer-based dental fillings.

small chunks of miscellaneous debris from a bike crash.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 08:15 AM
Response to Original message
84. Nothing extra, but a lot missing
some teeth, some bits out of my right knee, and probably some skull that got left behind when it fractured 30-odd years ago. Other than that, most of it's still there, AFAIK.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 08:42 AM
Response to Original message
85. One new part and a couple of missing ones
I have a steel plate in my neck and I'm missing a cervical disc. I'm also missing a chunk of bone out of my hip but I'm not really missing it - it's taking the place of the disk.

Oh, and I'm missing a uterus as well.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 08:45 AM
Response to Original message
86. small fragments from a smashed TV
They're on my forearm and look like moles. I fell into it at a party 20 years ago. There was drinking involved.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 09:14 AM
Response to Original message
87. lots of scars
a tattoo, piercings in my ears, fillings in my teeth, banding on my fallopian tubes, some staples in my stomach and some mesh in my abdominal muscle wall.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 09:33 AM
Response to Original message
88. Broken glass from when I stepped on some as a child
My dad broke an ashtray in the house when I was about 7, and everyone thought he'd gotten all the pieces, big and little. I was walking around the living room where it happened, and I was wearing a pair of moccasins that I loved dearly. Without looking, I stepped down, and three pieces of glass went into my left sole, shredding my foot and the moccasin. They were pretty deep, and my doctor could only get one out without surgery. Since the others were pretty small, the doctor decided that he would patch up my foot and reevaluate the situation in a few weeks. Well, the cuts healed, and I couldn't feel the glass, and I forgot all about it until ten years ago, when one of the pieces of glass worked its way to the surface. :yoiks: The other one is still there.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
sexybomber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 10:13 AM
Response to Original message
90. fragments of asphalt
... and rocks, and any other inorganic matter that was at the various points of impact...

these would be embedded in both hands, my left leg, and my right arm.

(I mountain bike. I wipe out occasionally. I accept this.)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 11:16 AM
Response to Original message
92. 7 screws and a plate in my right ankle and some dental crowns.
I hope to have nothing else added. The broken ankle was a real bitch. The surgery hurt like hell.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 12:12 PM
Response to Original message
94. 48 staples, some mesh and maybe a sponge or two...
The last part is pure speculation. :)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 12:24 PM
Response to Original message
95. Kidney stones
About seven of them. Another surgery coming up this month.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
ContraBass Black Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 12:28 PM
Response to Original message
96. food and two tooth fillings.
I'm a natural man.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Radio_Guy Donating Member (875 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 01:36 PM
Response to Original message
98. Hair follicles
Many many hair follicles that seem to have disappeared.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Iniquitous Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 01:39 PM
Response to Original message
99. Fillings, a few scars, a hole in each ear, long hair, and secondary ...
sexual characteristics of an adult female.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
calico1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 01:46 PM
Response to Original message
100. Fillings and a couple of crowns.
That is about it. Not bad for 48.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
anarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 01:47 PM
Response to Original message
101. drugs
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
livetohike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 02:56 PM
Response to Original message
102. Cinders in my knees from playing in slag piles when I was a kid
and sled riding on brick streets after crushed cinders were layed down to provide traction. (I grew up in Pgh.)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 03:08 PM
Response to Original message
104. Steel rod in my arm
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 06:14 PM
Response to Reply #104
105. Bad break?
Redstone
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 11:01 PM
Response to Reply #105
113. Yes, roll-over accident in an SUV
It broke just inches below my shoulder, so you couldn't put a cast on it.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 06:22 PM
Response to Original message
106. A metal plate in the neck and lots of bubblegum in the stomach
Edited on Thu May-04-06 06:22 PM by HypnoToad
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Road Scholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 06:26 PM
Response to Original message
107. Senility. lol
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
LaraMN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 06:34 PM
Response to Original message
108. A pencil lead
and a couple of fillings the dentist gave me to fill in some deep "pits" I had in my molars that "could lead to cavities".
That's it, so far.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 03:08 AM
Response to Reply #108
118. Me, too. Technically, it's a tattoo. I stuck a pencil in my wrist in 5th
grade accidentally and it has been there ever sense - a teeny little tattoo.

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 06:46 PM
Response to Original message
109. Ink
Other than fillings, that's it.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 06:51 PM
Response to Reply #109
110. You've been fortunate. Or more intelligent than some of us.
Redstone
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 06:57 PM
Response to Reply #110
111. Yes, well, so far I've suffered no major trauma.
Here's hoping the streak continues.

I didn't count nicotine as something because, well, mommy smoked, and you said false teeth don't count--I've got one or two of those, so there goes that. I have had things removed, however. (Appendix, and the flesh that once existed where now there are earrings). But yeah. I'm pretty tame compared to some of you guys.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
NC_Nurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 08:13 PM
Response to Original message
112. Had a medullary rod in my right femur
they took it back out and I'm glad. I'm glad you are here today because of all your replacement parts. I've seen many people die who couldn't be fixed. :(
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 01:32 AM
Response to Original message
114. Fell on my ass on a wicker basket. Still waiting for that piece of wicker
to work itself out.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Robbie Michaels Donating Member (612 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 03:05 AM
Response to Original message
117. An erector set
Two screws, 22 pins, 8 plates....I think that's the running count. I'd have to see an x-ray to verify. :evilgrin:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 11:27 AM
Response to Reply #117
120. Have trouble at airports, do you?
I bet flying is an adventure for you. Maybe you should bring X-ray films with you to show the people running the metal detectors.

Redstone
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Robbie Michaels Donating Member (612 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:47 PM
Response to Reply #120
121. I used to worry about that
Edited on Fri May-05-06 04:47 PM by Robbie Michaels
But I haven't set off any metal detectors yet. :rofl:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:55 PM
Response to Reply #117
123. Do we want to know precisely where?
:rofl:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 03:14 AM
Response to Original message
119. Fillings in my teeth
That's all
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
meow2u3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 05:28 PM
Response to Original message
124. Quite a bit of "replacement parts"
3 crowns in my mouth
24 stitches in my left wrist (age 7)--permanent scar to show for it

Plus, I had some parts taken out: veins in my left leg, a bone spur taken from my right heel.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 07:34 PM
Response to Original message
125. A whole lotta fat cells
and some fillings. Other than that, I'm clean.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
lumberingbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 07:49 PM
Response to Original message
126. A few things......
A piece of pencil lead in my leg from elementary school.

2 new lenses in my eyes

Buckles (plastic strips) around my eyeballs to prevent detached retinas (I've had 4 detachments.

An occasional hairball.

:hi:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
marigold20 Donating Member (802 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 08:05 PM
Response to Reply #126
127. Me too - one schleral buckle!
nt
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
lumberingbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 08:11 PM
Response to Reply #127
128. Yep, that's right.
I have one on each eye. (One had to be re-enforced a couple years later.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-09-06 08:46 PM
Response to Reply #126
129. EEEYAGH! Plastic strips around your EYEBALLS??
Holy Jesus, I'm going to stop waffling about the upcoming knee surgery.

I mean, how bad could it POSSIBLY be compared with plastic strips around your EYEBALLS!

You're a better man than I, Gunga Din.

Redstone
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-09-06 08:55 PM
Response to Original message
130. wires wrapped around my sternum - bone grown over it now, makes for
a very strange-looking chest x-ray

whatever they used in 1963 to repair ventricular septle defects

titanium in my right ankle

:hi:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-09-06 09:31 PM
Response to Reply #130
132. Well, whatever they used in 1963 must have been good stuff, because
you're still here. Yes?

Redstone
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 09:17 AM
Response to Reply #132
134. Indeed!
Check the sig line. ;)

:hug: i dig you, Redstone.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-09-06 09:46 PM
Response to Original message
133. Dinner
That's all I can come up with. Do scars on my skin count? I have a couple of those.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view 
this author's profile Click to add 
this author to your buddy list Click to add 
this author to your Ignore list Thu Apr 25th 2024, 01:57 AM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » The DU Lounge Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators


Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC