One of the minor sad points of growing old has been that many of my scars have faded and disappeared. I worked hard to do things stupid enough to get some of those, and I kind of hate to see them go …
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A few months ago I went to urgent care with a cut that seemed deep enough to warrant the trip. They glued it shut and gave me a tetanus shot, then a couple months later, surprise bill for $300, on top of the copay I already paid. At least this thing won’t send me any nasty surprises in the mail.
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She was running around almost immediately after…she faked the surgery. Hope you feel better now. 
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You mean Elizabeth Shaw (a character from the movie Prometheus)? Not according to the plot synopsis, she didn’t. 
More on topic, my wife asked her dentist why they didn’t use something like superglue to seal up fillings, and the dentist told her that saliva would eat through it.
exactly.
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Next you’ll be telling me Aliens aren’t real.
You know who could have used that $10 skin stapler? The androids from the Alien franchise, that’s who. Ash, Bishop, David – things just don’t go well for the “artificial persons” in those movies.
This is actually a good thing to have in your first aid kit when on excursions (ex: mountaineering; spelunking; expeditions) to remote, hard-to-get to locations.
Why am I spending money on that? I have a perfectly good Leatherman and a ball point pen (or silicone tubing) right here.
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Doctors have it all wrong. The real deal with a pneumothorax is that the hole in the chest is too small for air to escape. The trick is to make the hole much, much bigger. Some people use a cordless drill for this, but I prefer a splitting maul. Using this method, I have never had a patient die as a result of the pneumothorax.
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