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Re: Tomorrow, at 10:30, I will arrive to get this feckin' cast off and pin out <NT> DangerJudy New
Re: I hope it doesn't hurt when they take the pin out. I hear they use a cordless drill... Pinecricker New
Date: Jul 09 2008, 13:44 GMT
From: peterelkon

	They used a cordless drill on me.  While tending to my pin, which was actually a screw, my doctor cheerfully told me the story of a time when, serving as a resident at a local trauma center, they had to remove a plate from a WWII vet whose arm had become infected at the site of the plate.  After cutting in, they discovered that the plate, being one of the originals, was held in place with ordinary stainless phillips head screws.  Modern plates are done with torx screws, and they didn't have a phillips head screwdriver in the OR.  They had to send somebody out to the hardware store, get the screwdriver, and sterilize it before they could continue.   You'll have it easy.

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the other pin was really just a nail, no thread, no nail head either DangerJudy New

If you're numb enough, it's kind of cool to watch. peterelkon New

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