Small medical procedures you've carried out on yourself

[oldwheels]

Not really relevent but it reminded me of how coppering has changed.
Dad, born 1930 in Bristol, the docks being a notoriously tough place back then apparently, his mum n dad had a lodger, the local copper who was apparently a big fella. If a big fight broke out in a pub, theyd send for Ralph (the copper lodger)...he would walk in, size up who was the biggest fella fighting.....and floor him.
Apparently it seemed to quieten the rest of them down

There was an equivalent in Glasgow called " Big Tam frae the Toll ". Paisley Rd Toll I think.

 

[keithmac]

Oh yes - read that a few years ago, very good. "Between a Rock and a Hard Place", IIRC.
A surprisingly gripping film too.

The book and film of "Touching the Void" is another good one; the story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates and their mountaineering nightmare.

And if you have a strong stomach, the movie "Alive" about the survivors of a plane crash in the Andes....

My better half refuses to watch these, but she loves horror writing, or a gory TV crime drama.

"Alive" was an interesting film, put me off my dinner though .

 

[stephec]

Pulled a fork out of my buttocks following a fight at Woodbourne. Does that count as surgery?

What's it like having your buttocks forked? 😄

 

[neil_merseyside]

I removed 13 stitches from a dog bite wound on my wrist when I was 12 years old. They were itching like mad and the wound had healed nicely. Razor blade and tweezers did the job.

Tickles a bit briefly but much better than itching!