InsaneApache 00:47 04-06-2006
Originally Posted by :
Pam Mitchell knew the maggots were working when her foot started bleeding.
wriggly-woos
And there was I, 30 years ago impaling 'em on a fishhook...
I dont know if I could do that sick
On such a jaded universe as the intraweb, few things qualify as disgusting, but the images provided get the job done. Holy carp.
Reverend Joe 03:11 04-06-2006
There is a link to a picture of the maggots,
at work, inside her foot. For the love of god, and for your own sake,
DO NOT CLICK ON IT. That was the most horrifying thing I have ever seen in my whole entire life. I am going to be sick, and afterwards I will gouge out my own eyes and have my memory erased via electroshock therapy.
Originally Posted by
Zorba:
There is a link to a picture of the maggots, at work, inside her foot. For the love of god, and for your own sake, DO NOT CLICK ON IT. That was the most horrifying thing I have ever seen in my whole entire life. I am going to be sick, and afterwards I will gouge out my own eyes and have my memory erased via electroshock therapy.

OMG I SHOULD HAVE TAKEN UR ADVICE.
discovery1 05:27 04-06-2006
Curious. Wonder how they work. Why didn't I read it.......
And they aren't that disguisting.
Ja'chyra 09:31 04-06-2006
Originally Posted by discovery1:
Curious. Wonder how they work. Why didn't I read it.......
And they aren't that disguisting.
I think the maggots work because the only eat dead or decaying flesh, so when their work is done the wound is composed of healthy flesh with a good chance to regenerate or at least heal over.
The leeches work in a similar fashion in that they drain excess fluids from wounds while numbing the area due to proteins in their saliva.
They are supposed to be really good at this sort of thing. No human can easily cut out all the dead flesh leaving only healthy, but maggots can. Cunning little things.
Louis VI the Fat 14:02 04-06-2006
Oh, god. I'm feeling sick now. Don't look at those pictures when eating lunch.
yesdachi 16:23 04-06-2006
Pretty sick images but I have heard that it works great because they only eat bad flesh. Now I’m going to try and settle my stomach with a greasy cheese burger.
That image with the maggots working inside her foot reminded me about something I`ve seen on sheep in real life.
I guess I`ve become immune to such...
You people could never had become doctors.
ergh
Major Robert Dump 21:08 04-06-2006
Pork Fri Ri, Soy Sau. Four Nine Nine please!
doc_bean 21:48 04-06-2006
the picture ust made me think: interesting.
I'm more jaded than most of you !
The pictures not that bad.
I think it would actually be quite interesting to be able to see inside your foot like that. Apart from the, you know, excruciating pain.
Kralizec 22:32 04-06-2006
Fascinating.
Divinus Arma 14:24 04-07-2006
ugh. that was pretty heinous. Interesting, but heinous. I would hate to get that treatment. I would want a local pain killer to numb my foot and then I would want to just lay back and watch Tv. No feeling. No looking at it. just do it and be done.
Why cant they just replicate the protein combination used by the maggots and apply that, scrape goo, rinse and repeat?
Reverend Joe 15:44 04-07-2006
Originally Posted by Divinus Arma:
ugh. that was pretty heinous. Interesting, but heinous. I would hate to get that treatment. I would want a local pain killer to numb my foot and then I would want to just lay back and watch Tv. No feeling. No looking at it. just do it and be done.
Why cant they just replicate the protein combination used by the maggots and apply that, scrape goo, rinse and repeat?
Exactly. Or just cut the damn thing off. Honestly, even with the pain killer, I think the feeling of the maggots wriggling around inside of me (which even pain killers probably could not remove, since pressure nerves seem to be resistant to pain killers) would just be too horrific to bear; I think it would be more psychologically damaging than losing a foot would be physically damaging. Plus, you can always get a replacement mechanical foot.
Divinus Arma 18:43 04-07-2006
Originally Posted by Zorba:
Exactly. Or just cut the damn thing off. Honestly, even with the pain killer, I think the feeling of the maggots wriggling around inside of me (which even pain killers probably could not remove, since pressure nerves seem to be resistant to pain killers) would just be too horrific to bear; I think it would be more psychologically damaging than losing a foot would be physically damaging. Plus, you can always get a replacement mechanical foot.
Thats why you need the local painkiller, to numb your wound. You wont even feel the wriggling maggots devouring your live flesh.
doc_bean 23:34 04-07-2006
Ow come one, it's definatly worth it to save your foot !
Healing involves discomfort most of the time, it's knowing that it will make you better that gets you through.
Reverend Joe 05:21 04-08-2006
Trust me, I know discomfort in healing. I have had a broken arm, a thumb sliced open with a hatchet (don't ask) and a few very nasty dental procedures. But if the discomfort becomes psychological torture, rather than raw physical pain, I just cannot take it. Very few people can. Part of this, I am sure, stems from a phobia of bugs, but part of it has to do with relatively large living things (as compared to the microbes in my gut, for example) writhing inside of me, eating my diseased flesh.
No. Just... no.
Gotta do what you gotta do. I'd bring a bottle with me and drink myself angry, if that's what it took to bear the treatment.
Geezer57 23:36 04-13-2006
Originally Posted by Divinus Arma:
Thats why you need the local painkiller, to numb your wound. You wont even feel the wriggling maggots devouring your live flesh.
Actually, they only eat the mortified flesh, not live tissue. But I imagine it "tickles" a bunch!!!
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