Kid Scrapes His Knee at the Beach & Brings Home Beastie

Misfit

Misfit

Lawful neutral
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mother-finds-sea-snail-living-inside-her-son-s-knee

If you think popping a pus-oozing spot is gross, brace yourself.

Rachel Franklin’s seven-year-old son, Paul, scratched his knee at a beach near their home in Orange County, California. The wound got infected, so Rachel took her son to the doctors. Believing it was the simple kind of infection kids tend to get when they scuff their knee, they sent him on his way with some antibiotics and told them not to pop the growth.

However, the swelling turned black and began to ooze pus, so Franklin decided to take matters into her own hands and drain it. Turns out, the growth was actually a small sea snail covered in a layer of pus.
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NextJen

NextJen

Raisin cane
Snail, schmail....at least it wasn't babies trapped in his knees.
 

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RareBreed

RareBreed

Throwing the deuces
Several years ago, our youngest cut his foot while at the beach. We kept it covered and applied Neosporin and it eventually healed. A month or two later, he complained about his foot hurting. I looked and there was something hard sticking out of the bottom of his foot. I gently pulled and it was part of a sea shell. We figured that's what caused the cut months back. His foot completely healed and then the shell started making it's way back out of his foot again. Talk about a shock!
 
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