Fun With Guns: Thick Skin Edition
So this guy in Florida was cleaning his gun and he stood up, feeling a sharp pain in his back that threw him down against a glass coffee table. He says he thought he’d thrown out his back because he felt a lot of pain. He heard a gunshot but couldn’t find any bullets. He took some “back medicine” and forgot all about it.
For two days, Blevins went about his business as normal.
It was on the third day that Blevins took off his shirt. The shirt was black, a long-sleeved one, the kind that hides blood stains from bullet wounds should one ever shoot one’s self by accident, the newspaper reported.
Then he put on a light brown shirt, noticed his own blood and found the injury: Blevins could see where the bullet entered his left arm and where it exited, according to the News-Journal. It had cauterized, deputies later recounted, and was barely bleeding.
Okay, first off, this is a lesson. Please change your shirt more than once every three days. And shower every now and then, even if you live in Florida where everything stinks.
(Blevins later told deputies that his back medicine possibly numbed him from feeling pain from the accident, even pain from a bullet wound, the News-Journal reported.)
Second off, where the hell can I get some of that back medicine?
Thanks to Paul for the heads up.
Yeah, that’s the first thing I thought, too – that guy wore a shirt, night also, for 3 days straight. Who knows how long he had been wearing it before he shot himself. I am surprised that he did not get infected from the personal filth.
1Back medicine? Right.
2Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Who’s kidding who? He was out cold for three days, so drunk as a skunk + “medication”= stoned.
Cleaning a loaded gun= moron
He’s a Trumpite for sure.
Over the years I have heard a number of “I didn’t know I was shot” stories. One that blew me away was the guy with an actual bullet in his head and not by his own hand. Someone else was responsible. He honestly thought he had been stung by a bee. When he got tired of dealing with it himself, he actually went to see a doctor who then rendered him speechless with an X-ray. Granted, this guy was in NYC on a crowded, noisy street when he got the “bee sting”. After that I began to put some credence into all the stories about ancient civilizations practicing trepanning. But this yo-yo of the I’m so special I don’t need to wash or change my shirt on a regular basis, he’s a loss.
3Oh, Maggie! You done it,girl. I looked up trepanning,thinking you mispelled the act of boring holes in heads. Check this link out- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanning
If that illustration ain’t showing a wingnut in a tinfoil hat, I will eat that hat.
4I really want to know what back medicine he was using. I pulled a muscle between my shoulder blades, oh about 2 weeks ago. Hot baths, Advil PM, regular Advil, Grand Marnier and Ganja have only slightly relieved the pain. Having to cough or sneeze opens new horizons indeed!
5Welcome to the wonderful world of back pain, JaneE.
6Oh yeah. Another example of a dimwitted trumpkin ‘cleaning’ his gun. Riiiight. White lightnin’ and Lush Limpdick happy pills.
Hahahahahahahaha!! Oh epo, that’s truly priceless! Not only do we have the tinfoil hat, there is another one with a book on top of the head. That illustrates how tea baggers think “book larnin” works.
7Wow, as Ken Weaver would say, “I’ve seen a goat-roping, a fat stock show in fort wurf and a duck fart under water, but that beats any damn thing I ever seen.”
8@JaneE
Oh JaneE that rhomboid strain CAN change your life alright. But after doing that once I learned that it’ll hurt til it doesn’t. The doc’ll tut tut a bit but mine wouldn’t even discuss a couple Tylenol + codeine let alone the nacilbupeR drug of choice OxyContin.
9Yeah, anybody hears about that back pain medicine, let us know… unless it’s medicine that goes with not taking your shirt off for three (plus) days and nights.
10Apparently you can relieve back pain by shooting yourself in the arm.
11Florida: land of “pain clinics.” Then too, voters that don’t change their shirts for days at a time may explain Gov. Rick Scott…
12For about 35 years I’ve been hoarding a bottle of that “back medicine”. Hurt my back at work long ago and the Dr prescribed some (IIRC) Darvon for it, but no way could I take the dosage as it was given, too powerful for me.
One or two of those puppies would just wooz me flat out, pain was gone, but was totally zapped out.
Cut it down to half a tablet, still got a buzz on, but recovered pretty quick. Kept that stuff handy ever since, it sure works good (you might gather I don’t go to the Dr very often). In all these years I’ve had need to use that medicine just a few times with some acute pain or other, good stuff.
As far as gunluvving cretins blasting themselves into oblivion, let ’em have at it. That ol’ Darwin gene pool is mighty hard to keep cleaned out.
13I did not know they still made Darvon. Thanks to Limpaw I was never able to get Oxy. I had to make do with less effective pills and injections of Tordol-liquid Motrin-, muscle relaxers, and surgeries before I ran out of surgical options. Still have pinched sciatic nerve in both legs but the nerves and muscles have deteriorated to the point the pain doesn’t bother me much. I do get muscle spasms in my upper back regularly which makes trying to breathe a real joy.
What you might really like id the stuff that Michael Jackson ODed on. I had an injection for a colonoscopy about 5 A.M. and was immediately able to get dressed and leave the hospital the second that stuff wore off. I was wide awake and actually felt refreshed and energetic. That stuff is good and should be required for everyone. ps never felt a thing and don’t remember the colonoscopy at all.
14Pretty sure that bottle of Darvon is long expired and cannot be replaced. As for Propofol, it is great for procedures like a colonoscopy where you are monitored. Using outside a medical facility is never safe. Patients who are on it for long periods are on ventilators. Jackson must not have had a home vent.
15epo & AliceBeth,
My Darvon/Darvocet or whatever Rx (from an American Dr.) bottle was filled ~35 years ago, in the US.
I used some of it back then and it worked so good that I’ve kept the remainder all these years and used it sparingly. It still worked the last time (maybe two years?), so it’s still OK by me (no need to get into all that ‘expired meds stuff).
If I really pull a muscle or something I’ll take a half tab to ease it; doesn’t happen often.
I can see how some get hooked on such stuff (I have little sympathy for them though), but we just need the legalize it all. The worst societal problems would disappear if the exorbitant profits were subverted. The problems of those prone to addiction would come to a Darwinian conclusion, IMO.
I looked up the Wikipedia for Darvon, it has been removed from most countries markets long ago (but I wonder if you can still get it at a Mexican pharmacia?).
That’s where we used to get lots of our prescription meds from, even long ago it was cheaper. And for many drugs a doctor’s Rx wasn’t necessary (back then anyway). The same with doctors and dentists, much cheaper when we lived en La Frontera. The ex picked up some antibiotic for me six months or so ago when she was down there (a ZPak will knock out a sinus infection A-OK for me).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextropropoxyphene
16If Jackson had been monitored,he prolly wouldn’t have had all those young jesus juice drinking buddies of his hanging around.
I am a firm believer using guns outside a medical facility isn’t safe,either. 🙂
17Debbo-that book on the head thingy must be related to trickle down theory.
18epo, I suffered almost to the point of insanity because of a cyst on my lower spine and two fragile discs. Still there, but not as bad as before: it must have been that one trigger point injection that I had. THAT hurt terribly at the time.
19Nothing like lower back pain to clear the sinuses. The point of insanity is a good descriptor for how bad it can get. Anuone who has suffered back pain gets my sympathy whether they want it or not.
20As for over-the-counter stuff, some years ago in England we picked up a diarrhea remedy that contained I forget which opiate. We got rid of it before trying to come back to the US.
As for the 35-year-old Darvon, I suspect some placebo effect may be at work there, unless Darvon deteriorates very slowly.
21Rhea,
I had thought of placebo, but plumb forgot to write it in the comment. It’s possible, but I can’t imagine that ‘high’ feeling with it being imaginary, have to conclude it’s still good. Going to do some tree trimming and digging, so might get the chance to use it again :] .
As far as ‘Murican drug laws, it’s all insane to me. Just heard (again in the news) that Afghanistan is flaring up. Taliban controls the majority of the world’s heroin production, which is illegal most places. Illegality makes supply of it extremely profitable for them and allows purchase of weapons and personnel by them. Legalize it, price and profitability drops enormously, Taliban goes broke, prob solved.
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