Pencil stab hand black mark

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m 54 and I still have the mark inside my right hand from where my nasty abusive older brother stabbed me with a pencil when I was 5 years old and broke the tip off inside my palm. It’s faded a great deal over the years but I’m glad it’s still there - it’s an interesting anecdote should I choose to tell it and it always reminds me that even the men you love can be brutal.

It’s never caused me any harm on the health front, I wouldn’t disfigure your kid to try to remove a bit of graphite.

I should add that the actual pencil tip is still inside my palm, and that's usually the case with such occurrences. There are articles in the medical literature about this phenomenon which is apparently not terribly uncommon. In general there is no health risk from carrying graphite in the body for decades but sometimes the body will surround the foreign object with a build up of scar tissue which can cause issues and in that case might warrant a surgical procedure to remove it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m 54 and I still have the mark inside my right hand from where my nasty abusive older brother stabbed me with a pencil when I was 5 years old and broke the tip off inside my palm. It’s faded a great deal over the years but I’m glad it’s still there - it’s an interesting anecdote should I choose to tell it and it always reminds me that even the men you love can be brutal.

It’s never caused me any harm on the health front, I wouldn’t disfigure your kid to try to remove a bit of graphite.

I should add that the actual pencil tip is still inside my palm, and that's usually the case with such occurrences. There are articles in the medical literature about this phenomenon which is apparently not terribly uncommon. In general there is no health risk from carrying graphite in the body for decades but sometimes the body will surround the foreign object with a build up of scar tissue which can cause issues and in that case might warrant a surgical procedure to remove it.

Ridiculous again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would take a sterilized needle and get it out. If not it will be a permanent mark. And pencil lead is often not clean. I have a pencil mark on my shoulder when I plopped onto my bed and had left a pencil on my bed after doing my math homework. My son got a tiny bit of pencil lead stuck on the back of his wrist from another kid and I picked it out with a needle. Then slathered neosporin.

This. Simple to do also. Have used this method for splinters and cactus thorns. Pulled a 2 inch thorn out of my leg once, where you could just barely feel it with the needle, and worked up up to where could get it with some forceps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would take a sterilized needle and get it out. If not it will be a permanent mark. And pencil lead is often not clean. I have a pencil mark on my shoulder when I plopped onto my bed and had left a pencil on my bed after doing my math homework. My son got a tiny bit of pencil lead stuck on the back of his wrist from another kid and I picked it out with a needle. Then slathered neosporin.

This. Simple to do also. Have used this method for splinters and cactus thorns. Pulled a 2 inch thorn out of my leg once, where you could just barely feel it with the needle, and worked up up to where could get it with some forceps.

What the OP is describing is like a stain or a tattoo. There's really nothing to remove

[Anonymous]

I had a pencil mark on my elbow for years (decades?) after I got pencil stabbed in elementary school. This thread made me look for it but it’s no longer there. I kind of miss it!

[Anonymous]

I’m 47. I stabbed myself accidentally with a pencil in the inside of my wrist in 1st grade. I didn’t tell my parents because I thought I would get in trouble so it worried me for a little bit LOL. It looks the same today as it did when it healed over. Who cares?

[Anonymous]

I have a tip of a pencil in my knee. Stabbed myself accidentally when I was young. I forgot all about it until this thread. Looks like a faded beauty mark.

[Anonymous]

I’m 43 and still have a blue mark on my thigh from an accidental pencil stab at school. Nbd

[Anonymous]

Mine went away after a couple of years