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Thirteen Foreign Bodies

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Thursday Thirteen
This one is inspired by Kate, who has her own thirteen posted.

1. An artificial fingernail, removed from an adult's ear. Ouch!

2. Cockroaches, too many to remember.

3. Facial mud mask dried to the consistency of concrete, removed from the ear of a crazy person.

4. Black-eyed pea, removed from a young girl's nasal passage.

5. Silly putty, placed in a child's ear (as an ear plug) by a common sense-challenged mother.

6. Red string removed from my son's nose. And the shoemaker's sons go shoeless . . .

7. Half a pigeon head removed from an 18-month-old's larynx. Oh yes, more common sense-challenge parents to blame.

8. Countless pennies and nickles removed from little itty bitty esophaguses from Los Angeles to San Antonio.

9. A truly nasty meat impaction in the esophagus. When Alec Baldwin was learning how to play a doctor, he was watching me and my junior resident tackle this one.

10. Bamboo in the neck following a motorcycle accident.

11. Numerous bullet fragments recovered from the neck and face. Yes, we really do love to throw them into a metal bowl, so much that we usually do it over and over again, because it's things like that that make being an ENT worthwhile.

12. A rock of crack, which I wrote about here.

13. And enough childrens' beads to weave a size 14 wedding gown.

D.

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Yatta yatta yatta. Boy, am I sick of that paragraph.

, March 30, 2006. Category: The Barbarous Craft, Thirteen Candles.

Howdy, neighbor!

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A very special welcome for the lovely, talented, and soon to be published novelist Lisa Adams, who I hope will be stopping by sometime soon. She may never come back here, or she may beat me up the next time she sees me. You never know with some folks.

Lisa works as the Yurok Indian Tribe’s in-house counsel. That means we have two lawyers here. Scott, Lisa. Lisa, Scott. This painting is for the both of you:

Judge’s Chambers by Kenney Mencher

I’m sure either of you could supply the identity of the judge in question. And I’m certain this is all quite innocent — doubtless he’s reviewing some vital piece of evidence.

I’d write more today, but I was up late last night taking this

out of this

I pinched that X-ray off the web here at emedicine, since in my opinion, image-napping is a far smaller sin than violating doctor-patient confidentiality.

I’ll try to do better tomorrow. Hi Lisa!

D.

, June 14, 2005. Category: Friends o' mine, The Barbarous Craft.