Six Shocking Stories - Lose 100 Pounds Overnight

your kid. I know from you know, being around you and having the girls, that this happened to you a lot. I mean, it still kind of happens all the time. God, the school nurse calls or they're just brutal all the time. It's just like, oh, Leanne said her arm hurts, and I'm like, Okay, what do you want me to do about it right now? Does she need to go to the hospital? Like whatever? So, yeah, I've gotten millions of calls over dumb shit, but sometimes it's not dumb shit. Yeah,

so in this case, it wasn't quite dumb. So they tell this lady that her one month or her one year old son got glue in his eyes. So she's like making the assumption, you know what's out of daycare or preschool or school, right, like Elmer's glue, those purple glue sticks whatever, Right, So they're like, we're bringing the baby to the hospital. So she gets to the hospital and there they find out that they're super glue in the kid's eye, Like why are children even having access

to super glue? So what happened was that the daycare worker was she had acrylic nails, which is another thing we could talk about because I don't think you're supposed to have acrylic nows working in the daycare center because of the bacteria that they could transfer to the kids.

But that's a side note. Anyway, she had acrylic nails and one of them broke, so she used super glue or noil glue to glue her now back on, and she was giving the kid eye drops and accidentally put super glue in his eye instead of the eye drops. So luckily, the kid shot his eye really fast and it just glued his eyelashes together. This actually happened like

two years ago. Lisa Barlow, my favorite housewife, was supposed to be on Watch What Happens Live, and an hour before they were like, oh, she can't come on because she had been in her bathroom and she reached to grab eye drops and it was it was like eyelash glue that she accidentally put in her eye and had to go to the er. So I think this happens really often. And the bottles, if you look at them,

are always shaped so similarly. Yeah, this happened to me actually one time when I was back in my old life, when I was working at a hair salon doing nails and I was trying to the lid was clogged, so I was trying to unclog the lid and it popped off and the glue flew in my eye and luckily I shut my eye quick enough too that my eye, but my eyelashes one hundred percent were glued together. There was like no getting them open, and of course it

was a Saturday. I had to go to some special ophthalmologist. Thank god, somebody that worked there knew somebody to make a call. And when I went there, he had to cut off my eyelashes because they were there was no getting them open make to grow back. I don't e. I don't. I don't really remember. I was just kind of like, this is the least of my problems right now, because I seriously thought because when my eye was glued shot, I couldn't see, so I was scared to death that

I ruined my vision. So I was just happy with having a little cosmetic issue, you know, to deal with. And I was only a teenager. But in this story too. So this post in the grosser room is called ointment, super Glue, and Bible. And the reason that that is the title of this post is because when we were talking about this kid at the daycare center, I also came across a case that had that's a woman that

was in a similar situation. She had she was having eye redness and she had to her eye drops on the nightstand, and she woke up in the middle of the night like shit, I forgot to put my eye drops in and got her phone out and used the light the flashlight on the phone to look at it and thought she grabbed the right thing, and all of a sudden, she quickly realized that she put super glue into her eye, and in this case, she thought that they were eye drops, so she really squirted it in

her eye and it got into her eye. So she went to the hospital and they decided to send her to an eye specialist, which we did. We talked about last week, like if you ever go to hospital with eye issues, it's always better that the eye specialist looks at it. And she actually did have damage to her eye. She got a cornial ulcer and it did affect her vision for a little while. But one of the things is is that once she put the glue into her eye, she went in the bathroom immediately and tried to flush

it out. And the people, the doctors are saying that this actually helped her out because when you wet the glue, it's it could prevent the bond from being so strong. And perhaps she actually saved her vision because she did that immediately. So that's if this ever happens to anyone,

put water on it right away. Let me tell you how I could see this happening to me, because even though I've lived in my house for three years, my husband just seems to not know where anything goes in the house ever, and it is my number one pet

peeve with him. It's like all husbands everywhere. I mean, I just yelled at him over the weekend because I normally emptied the dishwasher and he was trying to be nice and did it, so I really wasn't trying to like fuss his balls about it, but he just never puts anything back where it goes, and I'm like, dude, how long have you lived in this house? Everything goes in the same spot. But I could see him putting, you know, glue or something, just not knowing what it is.

In my medicine cabinet. I have really horrible vision, so you know, if I don't have my glasses or my contacts, and I could very easily see myself grabbing it, and this's happening to me. So yeah, I specifically leave all of my now stuff in a totally separate area of the house. I would never ever just like and when I have super glue, like gorilla glue or something that I use for crafts, and that's in the craft drawer, Like, I just would never ever have that anywhere near medical stuff.

It's just really scary. And maybe that's why, like gorilla glue is like bright orange container because it can never be eye drops. I never I have seen the nail glue in a similar thing to an eye drop actually, so you could see how it happens. It just it is scary. And imagine being a mom and getting that phone call. I would I would have thought Elmer's glue too. Oh, the kid was making me a project in glueing postera

or caught in balls to construction paper like you. The kid closed his eye really quick, so it just was like pretty much on the surface, he's fine and everything, and god, he's a kid, because the kids are like, no, don't put this in my eye. It's the worst thing out. Yeah. It's probably like the one time it's okay for a child to have a temper to hit something going in their eye because it ended up saving them. But that's

good to know, all right. So this next one, so let's take it back a couple of years to probably the worst time ever, which was COVID, which you know, everybody was in their house and going crazy, and then there was all these issues going on with like medical care and treatment. So this guy back in the nineties, he used in his thirties, he had squeams cell carcinoma.

It was on his face, right, Yeah, it's it's and it's one of the skin cancers we will we always think I'm melanoma when we think of skin cancer, but you could get Merkle cell carcinoma, Squeams cell carcinoma, basil cell carcinoma. So it's just a type of skin cancer. So this guy has it on his face in the nineties, gets it taken care of, everything seeming fine. This is

in the nineties, So fast forward to twenty twenty. He notices this nickel sized mask growing on his forehead and at this time, COVID was going on and they were being the way they were in the hospitals and didn't want to take him in because they didn't consider this to be a life threatening condition or a life saving surgery, even though he had a history of it. Which as a medical professional, do you think that's crazy that he

had a history and they wouldn't even see him. I think the whole way that COVID was handled was absolutely crazy. But yeah, I mean, this is just a problem for people that weren't even getting screenings or anything. And we've here, we have a couple stories like this in the gross room of people that had something that didn't get checked out because it wasn't considered an emergency surgery because this

wouldn't be considered an emergency. His life wasn't immediately at stake and it so what would you do in that situation? So you have a history of cancer when you're young, right, and you know that when you got it removed, you survived another thirty years, So what would you do. So, like this post is called desperate times, called for desperate measures, this guy was like, I don't want to go through this again because the first time around it ended up saving me, and now I'm in my sixties. So he

tried to cut it off himself. So he did. He cut it off himself with a knife, and it seemingly went well at first, and it was bleeding a lot, but it healed up, and then then it shit started going down. It phil really fait. So then it starts growing back, this time more rapidly. He tries cutting it off again, but there's like a lot of blood second time around, so he's like, okay, you know, I'll stop messing with it, right, And then of course it just

keeps growing and growing and growing more rapidly. This is all going on over the course of a couple of weeks. So this thing starts encompassing his face right to the point where he came. Can't see out of his eye because it's covering his eye. He falls down on the ground and the thing starts bleeding all over the place.

He finally goes to the hospital, now still during COVID time, but now it's considered a life threatening emergency because when he gets his blood work done, his hemoglobin was only five, which normally in a man it's thirteen to seventeen. And this means so the hemoglobin on the blood cells is what brings the oxygen you breathe in to all of your organs, and that wasn't working well because he was

so in neat. That's called being anemic. And now he could get treated because it's considered a life threatening emergency. So when they examined him, this mass was eight inches wide. I'm like, I don't want to take you're doing this thing justice, Like, let's think of it. It encompasses, yeah,

like like you're all right. So when we started saying this story, he said it was the size of a nickel, which is like zero point eight three five inches, right, so it's not even a full inch within weeks, this thing gets eight inches on his face, Like, think about that. It's his entire face. Yes, so he it's covering his eye, it's covering his forehead, it's covering his It's just it's huge,

eight inches wide. I can't even think of, like, what's that wide, but like a personal sized pan pizza, right, Like, it's huge on his face. And on top of that, it's smelled terrible. It looks like it smells terrible. I can't even imagine. So what happens is when you have a tumor that's growing, especially one that's growing so fast, the blood supply that is feeding the tumor can't keep up with this rapid growth, and then parts of the

tumor could die off. It's called the crosis, and it's it smells like meat and that you would leave out on the countertop for five days. It's rotten meat, basically, that's what it smells like. And luckily when they ended up examining it and giving him imaging and stuff, it wasn't involved with his eye, so it just was growing over his eye, but it didn't involve his eye, so he didn't lose his vision in that way. It just was covering it like a big shadow over his eye,

you know. And luckily also that he didn't have it spread to anywhere in his body, so it just was a localized reaction. But gee, is how scary. I don't know even after removing that that he'll ever look normal again. It's the most frustrating part of this was it was completely preventable. I mean, he knew he had the history of the cancer, he saw the thing growing on his forehead, he immediately tried to take steps to fix it, just to be blown off. It is so ridiculous. We'll add

this to the list. I mean, this happened to a lot of people, and we saw afterwards of people not getting and not taking care of things. There's I understand, not doing elective surgeries, like if you want to get your boobs done, completely understandable during COVID time, but like things like this, no, especially that we know that thing was cancer, he had a history of cancer. It's it's

kind of it's it's malpractice honestly in my opinion. And this guy he should he should really consider that when talking about this hospital that wouldn't treat him the first time, because like, it's so scary you. You can't do it yourself, you have you depend on them. And there was nowhere, not even in his area he was living in, in the country, if not the world, that you could have gotten to taken care of for months. So I understand why he did it. I don't think that he was

totally outrageous for doing something like that. Honestly, do you think if he didn't try to cut it off himself that it would have grown? It would have continued to grow so rapidly? Like do you think him cutting it and irritated it worse? Yeah, he made it angry, for sure. I think that it eventually it would have grown faster, you know, Yeah, it would have, but not like that. But now can you blame him for doing it? I mean, he was trying to take all the right steps and

being blown off. So it's like, what are you supposed to do? Yeah, and you don't really realize, Like surgeons are super important people that do very meticulous jobs, and they take out cancer in a certain way not to leave any of it left in the body. So when he cut it off, especially if it was a like a polypy lesion or something that was like kind of hanging off of his head. When he cut it off, he left the base of it on and that just

think about. It's not exactly the same mechanism. But you know when you have let's say you have a plant and you cut off, it's a similar mechanism. Though, when you cut off the dead flowers, like what happens. They grow back and they grow back bigger and stronger, and like that's insane kind of you know what I mean, It's the same kind of thing. So so, yeah, poor guy, but at least it wasn't spread, so he's just deformed,

not gonna die, all right. Well, this next one's called beans No Frank, So this is gonna be an interesting journey. So a thirty five year old guy gets shot, goes to the hospital. He has injuries to the chest and arm, and otherwise he's considered a healthy person. So get into what happens next. So he was shot with a shotgun, which is a little bit different than getting shot with

a handgun or something. The ammunition's a little bit different, and it's a shell casing that is filled with little pellets called buckshot and or bird shot, whichever one you use. That just depends on the size of the pellets, and when he got shot, one of the pellets nicked his brachial artery, which is the artery in your arm, and when that happened, he started having a problem with the

clotting of his blood. He had surgery to repair it, but he was having a blood clotting problem after the blood loss and everything, and they put him on blood thinners. And blood thinners are miracle drugs that prevent you from having crazy blood clots and things like that, but they're also very risky drugs to use because they can cause

patients a lot of problems. And even though these drugs are supposed to stop your blood from clotting, sometimes it could have the opposite effect and cause your blood to clot. And if you stop taking them and they're not weaned off properly, you could also start to clot your body kind of is just like making up for it. So what happened was this is just kind of an absolute crazy story of this guy who was young and healthy and got shot and shit just started going downhill for

him so bad. So what happened was the blood when it affects the blood flow and the blood starts clotting, it's guarded slowing down the blood flow to his penis, but it was going in enough that he got this prolonged erection, and the veins that are supposed to take the blood from the erection out of the to make the penis deflate again were also clodding, so the blood was stuck inside of his penis and he had something

called priapism, which is a prolonged erection. So he went to the hospital and by the time he went to the hospital to just get that checked out, his penis was showing signs that it was dying or necrosis, like the color looked off and it looked like it wasn't getting enough oxygen and it wasn't losing the blood, and when they went in to take out the blood, it was all clouded, and that's how they figured out that he was having a problem with this anti coagulation or

anti clotting medication that he was taking. So this is just terrible, but they weren't able to save his penis at all. They had to putatius penis, and on top of that, sometimes if they have to amputate the penis, like if just the head is dead, they could leave a little stump for the urethra, because that's how a man urinates as well, And they weren't able to save any of the penis, and they had to reroute his urethra kind of underneath of his testicles, so he could

now urinate like a woman. So he has to sit on so he has no penis thirty five years old, no penis, has to sit down on the toilet now to go to the bathroom. And then, to make matters even worse, he had to get his arm amputated because of the damage the from the shotgun wound. Yeah, I mean, it's just I was mind blown reading this. How you know, he gets shot in the upper side of his body and then ends up having to get his penis amputated as a result of this. Like, is this something that's

seen often? Er? Is this considered rare? Prob It's probably more rare. I would say, I actually did get a penis amputation for a similar not because of the not because of the anti coagulation medication, but actually because of a prolonged erection caused by erectile dysfunction drugs. Interesting and yeah, and the same thing happened to the guy and they

just couldn't save it. And it's it's not common, but it's happened, and people one of my one of my friend's husbands was on anti coagulants and fell and hit his head and he had a serious brain bleed because of it and was really really sick for a long

time in the hospital. So there are and that's something you need to be careful of if you're on drugs like that, because sometimes if you have a small injury, you know, like let's say you fall and hit your head right young you're not on any of these medications. If you rupture a little vessel in your brain, like you'll live, yeah, you know what I mean, Like it might just resolve itself because your blood clots and like

kind of plugs up the hole. But and the case with my friend, it just it put a hole in one of the vessels in his brain when he fell, and it just kept leaking and leaking and leaking, and then all of a sudden he got a terrible headache and had to be rushed to the hospital. And he was a young guy too, so but but then again, when you're talking about this, they had to give him

those medications to save his life. So it's kind of like it's not like he was just taking it frivolously, like he had a reason and medications have side effects and this is a terrible story for him. Yeah, for sure. This episode is brought to you by the Gross Room. Guys, you have to join the Gross Room, especially because of my upcoming post with leeches, because they are so gnarly and one of the stories is so outrageous. I can't even explain it to you. You just think, like, how

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All right, so we're always talking about rectal foreign bodies, but let's get into this particularly eerie story about a foreign vaginal body. Yeah, so I've gotten these before, not this particular one, but got vaginal foreign bodies before in surgical pathology usually really old tampons that have been in there for god knows how long and they smell terrible. But in this case, this patient used a treatment called

the Yannie pearls. So Yannie pearls are like essentially these tea bags that you like stick up your cucci to like try to pull toxins out. And they they they've been viral on like TikTok and stuff that. Yeah, they they claim that they pull toxins out and then make your vaginas smell good or what and what do we always say on here, If it's a trend on TikTok, it's probably not a good idea. So let's exactly think about this. And you're always trying to push the narrative,

like it's like just let a vagina smell like a vagina. Well, a vagina is like a self cleaning ofn it just you don't need to. When you start messing with the balance of it, that's when you have problems because you don't want to change the pH You don't because then that could change. You know, you have healthy bacteria that are in your vagina that keep the yeast away so and the bad bacteria away so when that healthy bacteria goes away, then all of a sudden, that stuff overgrows.

And so if you think that it smelled bad, when you get rid of that stuff it smells, it'll smell even worse because then you still overgrow and like you could get back to your ol vaginosis and things like that. So you should That's why you shouldn't douche. Yeah, So it's just it's not good for you. So to describe this particular scene going on, it's like it it looks like which is why you named the article this vaginal nest. It literally looks like this, like nest with vaginal mucus

and like spider arms coming out. Like I literally stared at this picture for two hours yesterday trying to figure out what was going on. It is, It doesn't It doesn't look like if you ripped open a tea bagh. So I'm like, what the hell is? It literally looks like, yeah, like a tea bag with like branches and arms coming out of the sides. I cannot understand what possibly happened. Wait, so this is actually the best part of the story.

So I posted this on I might have posted it, Yeah, I posted it on Instagram, and of course I just put like, oh this, You'll never believe where this came from or something. And I got like a lot of site traffic that day. And when people read the story and found out that it was from Yannie Pearls, they like, google Yanni Pearls and look at the website. Right. So I get an email. Do you remember I remember I

was about to tell you this? So I get an email from Yannie Pearls saying like, hey, we noticed a lot of traffic on our website yesterday that came from your website. Would you be interested in us being one of your sponsors or something? And I'm like, oh my god, I would never ever recommend your product to somebody. Please, yeah, because I guess it was great. It's because the gross room's like behind a paywall. They couldn't get into see.

A couple people left the link to them in the comments section, so they were seeing on their insights that a lot of traffic was coming to their website from ours, but they couldn't see what the post was about. So I guess they just made the broad assumption that we were promoting the products, but we were actually showing this horrific case of this this girl that used them and I don't know, I thought it was so I had people weren't good, Like did that did that? Like did

they have good seals that night? Because that's weird if if someone hope not, Yeah, that's that's just so. If you saw the picture of this, there is no way in the world you would be like rushing to buy it. I just cannot understand who would be running to go purchase stuff from there. Yeah, it's not like this round tea bag thing. It's it just looks it just looks like someone went outside and grabbed like a bunch of hay like and sticks from the forest and like shoved

it up there. It looks like you took a mesh onion bag and a bunch of hay in it and then stuffed it up your inside yourself and then left it there for a week and pulled it out. It is it is so vile. It is one of the worst pictures in my opinion, we have in the gross room. Well, imagine getting that as a PA and having to to describe that, you know, when we can do you even

know what it is? No, but it doesn't matter because we have to do a report on every single thing that we get, and we so the pathologist knows like what we're looking at. So I would just describe it as like an aggregate ball of woody material with mucus attached or something, and measure it and and and that's it. But I think that in this particular case that the emergency room let them know that they they know that it was from a Yannie pearl, because sometimes they do

give us history. So if I got it, I wouldn't know.

But I'm trying to imagine what led to this, Like I don't really I don't really know necessarily about like how long you're supposed to use these things, but did the person leave it up too long and it got stuck or like for they having irritation, Like I just don't even understand the circumstance of which it ended up on like your guy's disk, you know, Well, it's the same as a tampon, though it's like you put it up there, you forget about it, and then you have

sex and then it like jams it up there even further. I mean it there's a if you have a uterus, there's a point that it can't go up any further. So it's but there's like little pockets next to your cervix, the things can get lost uff there. It's like and I that's that's probably what happened, like and she just thought she you know, tampons are more common because you use so many in a month and you thought you

took it out and you didn't. It was the middle of the night, whatever it was, you know what I mean. And that's how people forget and it gets jammed all the way up in there. And like for us, I always say, like when not right now, because I'm like going through it. But when I did use tampons all the time, I used those like dildo size ones because I used to bleed so bad. So thinking about one of those getting stuck up there is like no, because

there's there's a presence that you always can feel. But some of these like small little girls that have these like low flows, use these tampons that are the thickness of a pencil, and that's how they get stuck up there. You know. You on your on the external exam with Amy Lochrin, you guys talked about a case she had when she was working at the hospital where a lady had one stuck in there for a really long time, and she said it was one of the worst smells

she ever smelled in her life. Yeah, it really is. Yeah, I can't even so nasty. That one's called vaginal ness or yeah, vagina nest if you want to check it out, because you have to see the picture of it. It's like, it's so disgusting. This next one's called lose one hundred pounds overnight. So a seventy year old a seventy one year old woman goes to the hospital with a swollen leg and shortness of breath. But believe it or not, this is not the biggest issue she's having. No, she

she looks I would say, she looks beyond pregnant. She had this slow growing mass for fifteen years and finally decided to go get it checked out because she was having this issue with her shortness of breath and leg and they discovered that she had a giant ovary tumor that was causing her to be super morbidly obese. Her BMI was sixty five, which means if she was an averatite of a five foot four female, she would have had to play weigh close to four hundred pounds and

they thought that the tumor was causing this. So when they when they looked at it and they took it out, they did the surgery and everything like that. Guess how big this tumor was? Well over one hundred pounds because of the so no it was, Yes, it was one hundred and forty pounds and two feet in diameter inside

of this tiny woman's body. Yeah. So this had me thinking about the guy we talked about earlier with the thing growing on his face, right, Like this lady let this tumor develop over fifteen years without it being taken care of. So let me tell you this. I worked with a woman a long time ago who worked in this similar field, so she kind of knew stuff. You know.

She wasn't just like an average person. And her belly started getting big like this, and she was older, she wasn't pregnant, like she was definitely old past having kids and stuff. And there was a point that like we had to go up to her and say, hey, why don't you go get your your stomach checked out because something doesn't look right. And sure enough, she ended up having ovarian cancer. And it's it's people get in denial. For or whatever reason it is. It's in this case,

it wasn't because of a lack of healthcare. It just was like sometimes and maybe because she worked her on cancer all the time and stuff, she didn't want to believe it was happening to her, And that happens a lot of times. This particular case, I don't know what the deal was if it was just like because you have to think, there's so many people that live in areas of the world that don't have access to healthcare. They either don't even live near a hospital or they

don't have money to get it fixed. So there's that, and people just think it's gonna go away, you know. Yeah, And because of the size of this, you know, when they operated on her, she had to lay on her side over to operating people so that they could cut it out because she wasn't able to lay on her back, so she I can't even imagine the amount of pain

she was in constantly from it. Yeah, And what happened was so that's why she was having shortness of breath because the mask was push literally pushing her lungs up inside of her chest cavity. But on top of that, it was compressing her vessels in her legs, which was causing the fluid to not be able to go freely in the leg and out of the leg, so it

caused a fluid accumulation. So when you think about the tumor itself was one hundred and forty pounds, but all of that extra fluid inner tissues too, Like when this lady lost all the weight, she was really just an average weight person, but just with all of these things because of the tumor. Then she had so much extra skin too that had grown around the tumor, so they had to remove that as well. And then you know, right after surgery. That's why I titled it lose one

hundred pounds overnight. Really it should be called like, lose two hundred pounds overnight at least, right. It really is amazing too when you're looking at the pictures, like how skin is able to stretch like that. It just it's mind blowing how the body works like that. I know, it really is. I see these videos from time to time on Instagram or Facebook of people that have lost a lot of weight and get this weight loss surgery, and it's it's just crazy how people's skin is hanging

off of their bodies like that. It's just I mean, I had it happen to me. That's why I got a tummy tuck because when I had Maria when I was a teenager, it just really stretched my skin out so much and it just never bounced back. It just always was like hanging skin. And it happens when you have especially when you have a like a very not that fifteen years, but fifteen years of a drastic weight loss or weight gain and then a quick weight loss.

It's it's not going to bounce back at all, you know. Well, I think also because you were like a teenager and not prepared necessarily for like what was happening to you. Like a lot of women have now like lotions and regimens to like make sure they're not getting stretched marks. I think that shit's bullshit. I think that it like it happens to you or it doesn't, Like that's interesting.

So and I did use like that cocoa butter. Shit, it doesn't it doesn't work, like and you're gonna get them too, because my mom had them and just like some people's skins like that, and some people, yeah I musn't. I already have them from when I was younger and like gained a lot of weight really quick in my late teens, you know, so I know I already know I'm getting them because I just have them from gaining weight, so not even from having a kid, and like having

my stomach stretch out like crazy. So it's definitely interesting. Okay. Our last one is submitted by a listener, and boy, where we blow this one? So this checker sisters and fiance's were celebrating New Year's Eve at their mother's house and they were playing around with fireworks. We've been talking about fireworks a lot the last couple of weeks. Every summer we get flooded with a lot of stories of like people blowing their hands off. Yesterday we wrote about

this NHL player. I'm just gonna say his first name, Matis because I definitely can't pronounce the last name. But he was from Latvia. It's like Clavenx or some I wrote it that. It's yeah, keV Lenox exactly Matisse Keavelenix. We wrote about him. He played on the Columbus Blue Jackets.

He was from Latvia every season. Every year, when the season was done, he typically went home to Latvia to be with his family and this one year in twenty twenty one, he decided to stick around longer, celebrate the wedding of his coach's daughter and check out before the July was all about, only to get killed in this accidental firework thing. So it's it's really dangerous playing with fireworks, as we talked about a lot. But this listener says

they were setting all fireworks on her mom's porch. Her fiance was setting them off about three to four yards away from where she was. And what we learned in that dissection yesterday was that pyro experts say that you should set them off a minimum of fifty feet away from people, right, So they were definitely too close. Yeah, and that really if you go by that, not a PI pro expert, that's like pyro. If you go by the role like every person that was using fireworks last

weekend and stuff, you would probably avoid a lot of injuries, honestly. Yeah. So because it's New Year's even this case and the fourth of July, our listeners said she was wearing about four layers of clothing. It was very cold outside. So her fiance sets off one of the fireworks and within seconds it comes towards her seemingly burns through all four layers of her clothing and somehow gets stuck underneath the underwire of her bra. Yeah, and when it was under there,

it was still exploding under her bra. Like. She said that there was smoke coming from her chest and she could smell the flesh burning on her skin. Yeah. I mean, she said, it happened so fast, like I don't even know what you would do, right, So she runs in the house and she's trying to pat it out. I

don't even think I would process mentally what was happening. Yeah, And she said by the time she went to the hospital and she was like taking her shirts off and stuff, there was like still smoke and debris and just the stench of her burnt skin coming off. When they took off all of her shirts and her bra, and she got a serious burn yeah, first degree, second degree and third degree burns, and third degree burns are really serious. Yeah.

So she said, ultimately the worst part of the entire ordeal was their recovery, because I can't imagine how horrible it is recovering from burns. But I don't think she had to go straight to the burn center. So I don't know, yeah, but imagine just think about I always think about this with people that get burned like that, Like when you get burned by the crawling iron or the oven. It is terrible. Not the pain itself, it's like the pain the next day. Yeah, it just hurts

so bad. It's just the grossest. It's like that gross like tooth pain or something that just disgusting nerve. Ugh. And just imagine having that on a large area of your body, especially somewhere sensitive like your breath. It's just it's just so scary. I can't imagine. Like working in

the restaurant forever, I definitely got burned a lot. The one in particular, I like one of the line cooks pushed a meatball sandwich that just came out of the oven with cheese, like molten hot geese on it, and it flipped on my hand and I got a really bad burn on my palm. But I feel like, because your palm's really rough, it's like not as bad. So that sucked. I mean I couldn't hold anything for two

weeks at work, so that was shitty in itself. And then when I was at school one time, I had this hot glue gun that got really really hot and just the tip of it hit my finger so lightly and it made me cry the next day. It hurt so bad. I can't imagine having a burn so large on your body, especially in a sensitive area like you're saying, and she said the smell was horrible. The whole ordeal

just seems horrific. Yeah, and just to have it the fire happening underneath of your clothes, that's holding it close to your skin, Yeah, I mean, just just imagine. And I of course I emailed there and I was like, do you have any photos of this? And she's she's like no, because and I'm like, yeah, that's the last thing I would be thinking about was taking photos of this, but sometimes people do, so I was just curious. But yeah,

just fireworks. If we could teach you anything, this year of twenty twenty four is just there's some reason that humans like to be close to them and just stay fifty feet away. And then I feel like it would greatly increase your chances of surviving if you get hit with one. Yeah, absolutely, so go by with the pyrotechnic experts to fire. O experts said minimum of fifty feet but of course, be careful. Like you know, all these stories are rolling out just from over this weekend alone

about accidents that happened. I mean, it's undeniable. We see it every like Memorial Day to Labor Day, everything in between. There's some perfect recipe of nice weather summer American celebrations. Then people are always blowing their hands off, So just be careful. Well, yesterday I gave what we were. So we were writing this article yesterday about this hockey player and then we I don't know why we were what were we looking up? We were looking out something and

then he said, oh, I did that once. I threw firework at someone once it hit them in the chest. And I was like, why would you do that? And he was just like, oh, because I was younger, and that's like, that's just what guys do. Yeah, I'm like, that's fucking terrible. No, you didn't. You didn't think that

there was anything wrong with me. In the same next situation at my house, So I'm at home eating dinner last night with Ricky and I'm telling him about the hockey player we wrote about, because I'm pretty sure he's the one that suggested we cover that case. So I was like, oh, we finally did it, and then he's telling me the same thing. They used to go on this camping trip every year, and he said one year they were throwing m ads in the charcoal pit. Why yeah,

this is exactly why. That's why it always happens to men, Like most of the injuries happen with men and boys because they just their brain just works differently and not in a good He was like, well, they'd like slower, and I'm like, okay, this doesn't be better. What are you thinking? Okay, Well, if you guys have any stories, we would love to hear them, because this one was certainly one that blew us away. So submit your stories to stories at Mothernosdeath

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