I have a thing in my hand.
And by that, I do not mean that, currently, I am holding something in my hand.
I mean, literally… I have something embedded in the back of my hand.
It’s been there forever… I think since High School, but I am not 100% sure. I know that there was a time when I did not have this little black lump in my hand, but I don’t really remember when it was.
And no, it’s not an age spot, or a freckle… I know what those are, and I can tell the difference.
This is more like, well, a piece of gravel or something like that got embedded in my skin at some point and is just there.
See?
It’s not really hurting me or anything. But sometimes I just get overcome with the urge to stick a knife through the skin and once and for all figure out what, exactly, that little black thing IS that is embedded in the back of my hand.
I can run my fingernail across the skin and sort of push it closer to the surface… but it’s certainly got enough skin over it that it would take more than a pin or something to dig it out. This is really knife territory.
Handily, these impulses usually only ever come over me when I am not near any implements of hand destruction… and, I do have enough sense to know that cutting the back of my hand open in an attempt to find out “what’s in there” is actually Bad Idea Bear whispering in my ear. So I don’t do it.
Still, sometimes the curiosity makes it a mighty tempting bad idea 
I suppose I could go to a Dr. and have them do it, but it seems like a might trivial thing to be going to a Dr. about.
It’s just a weird piece of something in my hand.
I thought I would share.
renn said,
June 17, 2010 @ 9:25 pm
I can snag you some random round/square blades from the cage at work, but you’ll need to ask ETW, Tiff…or pretty much anyone else to stand and watch with you. I’m curious, but must stand FAR AWAY.
It really looks like pencil lead, though. Chachi has some embedded in his hand (random idiot stabbing), and it turned part of his hand blue.
NoCeleryPlease said,
June 18, 2010 @ 11:01 am
I have had others posit that it could be pencil lead… I just would have thought that I would remember being stabbed in the hand with a pencil.
Of course, it was high school… and I have blocked out so very many things from that time.
Buzzardbilly said,
June 17, 2010 @ 10:18 pm
Get the thing in your hand taken out by a doctor. Let them watch it in a petri dish if they want to wait to see what it is. The doctors will test the thing and tell you what it is (if it isn’t obvious like my old friend who had a BB in his neck and used to wow people at parties by using a magnet to make his skin stretch as the BB tried to read the magnet). Come to think of it: Does it respond to a magnet? That would tell you if it’s metal or not. And, there’s always PRID if you want the home show. It’s a boil drawing salve that you can get at most health food shops and pharmacies. I used it on two boils and it was incredible the amount of stuff it drew (it also left me with two caverns when they blew, which sent me to the doc). A friend said she used it on a splinter she couldn’t get at and it worked on that. Maybe PRID could be your answer.
NoCeleryPlease said,
June 18, 2010 @ 11:00 am
What if it’s an alien egg, and the only thing keeping it from growing into a monster that will destroy the planet is the fact that when it landed it got stuck in my hand?
I can’t have them putting THAT in a petri dish and seeing if it will grow!!
Doc Nagel said,
June 18, 2010 @ 10:55 am
Shrapnel?
I do have extremely sharp knives, right down stairs. And I am a doctor. But I suppose a qualified medical doctor is a better bet.
You know, why not have them take it out? (He says, cavalierly, being himself so petrified of invasive medical interventions he has refused to return to his primary care physician for 4 years for fear of being asked again to submit to a blood test.)
NoCeleryPlease said,
June 18, 2010 @ 11:01 am
I wouldn’t want to taint your filleting knives
Ron said,
June 21, 2010 @ 1:26 am
I’ve got razor blades….. just saying. I’m the curious type, it never would have made it this long with me.