Foreign Objects Found in Bodily Orifices!

[queerbychoice]

A few weeks ago a LiveJournal friend of mine (who shall remain anonymous unless she declares her wish to take credit for it) introduced me to the Rectal Foreign Bodies page. Not the most dignified reading material I've ever spent an evening with, I must confess, but I certainly never imagined that there was any other page about foreign objects found in people's bodies that would be able to top it.

But I was wrong.

It makes a certain amount of sense to be that objects would occasionally get lost in people's rectums and they'd need medical help to get the objects removed. I mean, it's a bottomless pit that people do tend to put things into. Of course the "concrete enema" story did push the limits of my imagination a bit, but even then, there was something not entirely surprising about it, somehow.

But the Foreign Objects in the Vagina page is a whole lot harder for me to understand. I mean, we're not talking about a bottomless pit here. How the hell can you put things in and just forget about them? How the hell can a woman put a tampon in her vagina and just leave it there for five years until it causes scar tissue to form and separate the cervix from the vagina, blocking off her periods from getting out?

Will some woman please explain to me how on earth she could just forget about it for all that time?????

Comments

*laughs*....damn that would hurt!

[alasin.livejournal.com]

did she do it on purpose...maybe intending to stop her period forever. I mean...it might have crossed mind....

[asrai-d.livejournal.com]

*laughs* OMG ... and was that me? well i'll blame it on spider who found it first :)

there are certain parts i'll leave well enough alone.

[ex-goodlife509.livejournal.com]

i mean, yeah, i can understand putting one's finger in one's nose from time to time. maybe some joker will fill his mouth with m&m's to see how many he can get there. we're not gonna die from swallowing chewing gum.

but when it comes to reproductive and well, expulsion systems... i leave well enough alone. pretty damned important parts, not to be messed with. weird. how COULD she just forget about it?

Re: *laughs*....damn that would hurt!

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

why on earth would a woman ever get the idea, "hey, maybe if i put this tampon here and leave it in for five years it'll form scar tissue and stop my period forever?"

it seems to me the far more logical assumption would be "hey, maybe if i put this tampon here and leave it in for five years it'll get hideously soaked and slowly disintegrate inside me until i walk around leaving a continual trail of blood-soaked bits of cotton floating off behind me as i walk."

i mean, i doubt that anybody had any idea it would cause scar tissue at all, much less block off her period completely, until after she tried it and it happened to turn out that way.

Re: there are certain parts i'll leave well enough alone.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

what, you mean breathing and digestive systems are less important than reproductive and expulsion systems???

i don't find anything at all more disturbing about inserting objects into vaginas and anuses than into noses and mouths. the disturbing part is the bit about concrete mix and leaving things in for five years. i mean, if somebody had poured liquid concrete into a person's mouth instead of into their anus, that'd cause an even worse problem than what they actually did caused. and if somebody left a tampon up their nose for five years instead of in their vagina, well, it'd probably cause scar tissue there too and maybe they wouldn't be able to breathe anymore.

if you're going to fool around with body parts, the vagina and anus are not an especially bad choice of which body parts to fool around with. but i mean, there does have to be a dose of sanity in there somewhere. and with liquid concrete and five year long extended insertion times, that necessary dose of sanity was obviously missing.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's right, blame it all on spider. ;-)

you should pass the site i found on to spider in exchange. tell him thanks for me!

hmmm

[ex-goodlife509.livejournal.com]

you might have a point. i'm not going to contemplate this any longer.... jet lag makes it all so much more complicated....

Re: *laughs*....damn that would hurt!

[alasin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, like it's more plausible that she'd just happen to forget about it, ignoring the pain and the abnormal bleeding.

Ummmm

[lunahalo.livejournal.com]

And All The People Said...

[chastmastr.livejournal.com]

GROSS! Indeed!!

Yes, the "forgot about it" sounds really implausible; I can much more easily imagine that it might have been an unwillingness to deal with it and see a doctor (embarassment), and when asked, said "Uh, I forgot about it" or such.

Someone I know personally -- an older woman -- distrusts doctors so much that she doesn't go to them until things are more desperate than I would ever accept. She will complain of foot pains, and when asked explain that she stepped on a piece of glass a while back and a tiny fragment must still be in there. "How long ago?" "Oh, about a year..." (shocked horror) Recently she had to have all her teeth removed because they were not only hurting her, they were starting to come out on their own (I won't add any more detail lest someone woof their cookies). She had some other ailment for months and months and when she took her husband's leftover antibiotics from when he went to the doctor, wonder of wonders, it cleared right up, as it would have MONTHS BEFORE had she seen a doctor -- so while I can't imagine someone really forgetting about a tampon, I can imagine someone refusing to deal with it, or even being in denial about it being a real problem, until they have to go to the doctor or die from some horrible infection.