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At a high school basketball game, in an old gym with ancient wooden bleachers, I was sliding down the bleachers with one hand on the top row and one hand on the row below. I was sort of nudging myself along quickly with a forward motion of my legs in unison alternating with arm strokes - if you can imagine this.
Well, I caught my leg on a splinter which stuck through my pants into my leg. It felt a little numb but it was concealed under the pants material. My leg kept getting number, so I went into the locker room to see what was up with it.
I lowered my pants and saw that an 8 inch by 1.5 inch piece of spike-shaped wood about 3/4 of an inch think had entered my leg in the front and was poking out the back. My leg was skewered on the spike.
As soon as I looked at it, it hurt like holy hell!
I yelled for help and was taken to my doctor's office where he removed it with local anaesthetic and some dissecting tools and his hands.
I went back for months to get excess wood splinter pieces removed in the same way. I still have no feeling in that part of my leg and I have two scars at the entry and exit point.
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