Keep playing with it, give it a day or two, and it will present itself.

“Keep playing with it, give it a day or two, and it will present itself.“

This sounds like my wife after an argument.

Cover it with black salve and a band-aid. It'll come to the surface.

Push it out the other side like a fish hook

If it cant see the tip I just let nature take its course. It will eventually work its way out, or not.

Jeeez. Rub some dirt on it and take 4 shots of whiskey. It’ll be awrite. 😎🥃

Hunting pard on the Sanderson ranch had a Terrell County thorn in him for three months before he had the Doc cut it out.

My daughter got one in her knee July 4th, 2021 and I removed it Sept 19, 2022. She had a bump on her knee and would occasionally complain that it hurt. One day I looked at it and it looked like a blackhead so I dug around and removed a quarter inch wood splinter. She skinned her knee on the pier on July 4th and it had been there since.

[quote=DustyArmadillo]Got one of the worst splinters in my life over the weekend.

It's still lodged in there.

It's like it plunged down to the bone and then snapped off.

Can't even see the tip it's buried so deep.

Any you guys know a good way to dislodge a buried splinter?

I'll get surgical if I have to but i'm hoping one of yall know a trick.[/quot

Open it up, plaster bacon on it and do not, I repeat do not, ever tell anyone you know how crippling this splinter event was.

Where's this "Slit you cut" if that's it, The first cut ain't the deepest you need to do it again.

This is seriously a topic?

I have a man purse and apron you can wear....geez. Man up bro!

For a splinter??? Come on man!. My boys would let me dig them out with a needle and a pocket knife when they were 4 years old, even mesquite and locust thorns. Harden up.

I recall a story about a guy that was in a car wreck and had the turn signal lever stick in his arm, it was 50 years later before it bothered him enough to get it out.

I was just reading on another readneck forum, rub it on a tree, piss on it, it will come right out after a few weeks.

I was running around barefoot one time and stepped on an orange tree thorn (similar to a mesquite thorn) hobbled in the house and my mom said “told ya not to run around barefoot” she made me crawl around on all fours for 2 days and then took me to the ER where they cut it out. Was about an inch long. I wear shoes inside the house now lol

After a month if it doesn’t get better need to piss on it some more.

#facts

Reading this and thinking about my dad reaching across the dinner table, we heard a sound of something hitting the hardwood floor and he started bleeding from his back down his arm. I piece of shrapnel from a N. Vietnamese rocket had worked its way to the surface and cut its way out. That’s a thread worthy post, but this one just isn’t. Spit some tobacco juice on it.

While the appearance given here is of a soft handed, trimmed nailed snowflake, I must come to the defense of DustyArmadillo. Thorn or no thorn, he is a real man. I purchased a 22 magnum from him while I was visiting family in the Metroplex for Thanksgiving. He tells me to meet him at a deserted old run gas station, next to a Loves, off Lake June Rd, in the hood. He was in the back, by the dumpster, in a real pickup. Now, I grew up not far from there, not a “Grove Rat”, but not far away. But man, Lake June Rd and 635? That place has changed! I felt like I was going to a drug deal, not a rifle purchase. Anyway, good transaction, great rifle, and neat young man. We ended it with a hand shake. And they weren’t as soft as they look in picture. I get back to West Texas, gun was sighted in just like he said. All has been good with the rifle. So, as bad as this looks, (not the thorn, or lack of one, or the small hole in his finger), but softness of those fingers and the whine in his post, he’s a good honest dude. And anybody that hangs around Lake June Rd is tougher than me.

Wait a minute, he was in a "real" pickup?

Btw, if one has cut into his finger and not seen this railroad tie of a splinter, he hasn't cut deep enough. I'd just keep the cut open, put fatty BACON on it and let it come out on its own, if only it weren't so crippling. If not willing to do this, just wait. Hopefully, the crippling pain will subside at some point and then the body will ultimately work to remove this trespasser. There will be some slight swelling which can then be cut into so this wagon tongue can be excised.

Standing by for the thread.

Or maybe longer. I fell into a prickly pear patch at Camp Grady Spruce. I had hundreds of thorns in my backside. One buried in my thumb that was completely concealed. Thought there was something there but pain went away in a few days. One day sitting in church I felt an itch and started to scratch my thumb. Felt something hard and pulled a whole thorn out. It would not come out all the way. I had to sit through church with it sticking out of my thumb. Used a pair of pliers when I got home.

Hahaha! Thank you 3kcattle! You’re a good man too. Was laughing pretty hard at some of your commentary above

Is your dad still around? I’d like to meet him.

Crazy as hell and I bet it was tender as could be until it came out!

Reminds me of off season football many, many years ago when us linemen were bear crawling the logs. These were old 30'-40' telephone posts were were bear crawling and there were 3 of them so we'd go side by side and race one end to the other. Guy next to me started screaming about halfway through the log and I looked over and he'd run a huge piece of that old post right into the side of his calf muscle. The part sticking out was about 1/2" wide and out of his leg about an inch. He reached down and jerked it out and OMG it was in his leg about 4.5-5". His dad took him to the emergency room and they were worried about infection from the old creosote post so they laid it open and flushed the hell out of it.

The good news........we never bear crawled logs again after that.
The bad news.......we then had to bear crawl across the field in the races! SOB!!!!!!