Chucky & Toby Forever.
GiphyI had a small stuffed dalmatian from disneyland. Got it when my grandma was dying of lung cancer and they want us kids out of the house. It was my "blanky" and it was named Chucky (not a joke, 5yo me thought that was a fitting name.)
Fast forward a decade, finally going to public school, i gave it to my dog when he found it in the closet, and it became his new favorite toy. Rip Chucky, beheaded by a cute little boy named Toby (also rip.)
No regrets. Its one of my favorite memories of Toby. justaregulardude1989
The Killer.
Not an object but a pet. I had 2 hamsters when I was younger. They lived in a plastic cage where the only entrance was a caged flap at the top (like this https://static1.viovet.co.uk/familygallery/ferplast-mini-duna-hamster-cage-bi65.jpg ) One time I came home and discovered that one of them had killed and partially eaten the other and then disappeared.
We never found any trace of it. I've no idea how it could have gotten out as there's no chance it could open up the caged bit at the top! You hear stories about a finding a murdered body in a locked room but you never think it'll happen to you.
What makes it worse is that the murderer was probably living in my house for a few weeks afterwards. miiiiiig
Phone Home.
You know those small baby blankets with animal limbs and a head so it's kinda like it's wearing a dress with bottom legs? Well I was probably four and I had a knack for usually picking out odd stuffed animals, a homemade thirty year old E.T. and spider puppet until I saw this blue baby bear blanket, I fell asleep with it on the third night and I never saw it, I looked everywhere and was so devastated. I still want it. owoIlivealieuwu
Stolen.
A zombie frog teddy I took to a university archery competition. Set him on a chair. Some other team thought he was a mascot and stole him. There was an announcement asking to give him back but the team that stole him thought I was from a different uni as I wasn't wearing a uniform. This was in 2011 or 2012, UK. I still have his eyes though (he wasn't always a zombie). CatTatze
Counting Pennies....
Giphy10 years ago, I had an envelope with 800 DKK (~$120 US). After spring cleaning I could not find the envelope. Still mad at myself that I probably threw out money. LindaE24
Personal Value.
My wedding ring. My wife didn't have much money at the time and it was only $50, which makes it insanely more valuable to me. It pops in my head out of nowhere and It makes me sad. Whynotacoconut
Maybe it's Lost?
GiphyA small lego man I lost in our old house. Specifically in my parent's bathroom. (might be a false memory). But it was the greatest lego man ever. BlueScreenOfDeath-
I'm why I can't have nice things.
A golden bracelet I received from my grandmother. Lost it when I was going out when I was 18ish. It had my name and d.o.b. on it, in case you found it. Reddit
I had a necklace my grandma gave me with my full name and dob. 20k gold made in Spain ( where she was at my time of birth). Fell out of my pocket on a ride at Marriott Great America when I was 13. Into a lagoon.
I'm why I can't have nice things. Chaotic-NTRL
The Gone Stage.
GiphyThis little side table I got in Australia. It was the only thing I could bring back when I finished my degree and followed me through many stages in life. Till I lost it in a move a few years back. wanderingpluviophile
A Turning Point.
A drawing I did as a kid. I dedicated hours to it and it was pretty awesome for the work of a 7 year old. Went to take a nap and when I came back it was gone never to be found, no one in my family ever remembered seeing it. The loss actually discouraged me from ever pursuing an artistic career. zakcary0007
Hey Alice....
I had this pair of hippie pants that were light and dark green stripes.... comfiest pants I ever wore. In high school I wore them to play the caterpillar in our production of Alice in Wonderland. Stolen from my dorm in college. I hope whoever has'm loves those pants as much as I did. flowerburgerstand
DS Down!
GiphyMy Nintendo DS Chip that slid beneath my car seat 9 years ago. I still can't find it. immamemehere
Monkey Gone.
My old stuffed monkey toy from when I was young, around toddler age. Lost it in Philippines when I went home with my family. My Aunt and Uncle in Philippines never found it. I realized I lost it when on the plane ride and I was crying on the flight back home to Canada. I miss that old stuffed monkey toy. JTyphoon16
Nimrods....
Many years ago....
There was a lighter that was called a Nimrod that kind of looked like a piece of threaded pipe.
I had one that was given to me by a guy I knew who was dying. From what I recall, he told me he got it off a dead enemy soldier in Vietnam. As Nimrods were American made, that meant the enemy soldier likely got it from an American (probably dead as well).
Well I actually used that lighter. I was in a bar one night and set it on a pack of smokes at my place at the bar.
I got distracted and was taking to someone a few places down from where I was sitting. Well some a-hole stole it from me.
I lost touch with the guy that gave it to me as this was pre social media and I was leaving town.
I don't even smoke anymore but I still miss that lighter. It upsets me that it has a cool story but to the guy that stole it, it was just a lighter. slider728
Sorry Nan....
GiphyA ring that my nan brought me for my 18th birthday, its been lost for many years now, but held special meaning as my nan died 3 days after giving it to me. My ex no longer owns the house that I lost it in, so I sometimes wonder if the new owners happened upon it hidden somewhere. SpannaMunky
Cubicle Thief.
I used to work at an environmental lab and we used pens all day. This was in 2003-04, so all of our work was recorded with pen & paper (I think they're all digital now). I had gotten this really nice pen from that job, it was one of those fancy, weighty pens, a nice shade of red with their logo in white. I kept that pen for years.
I had it with me at another job back around 09-10 and would use it to jot down notes. I got booted out of my office and was moved into a cubicle. These cubicles weren't the "nice" ones that walled you off with flimsy, short walls.
These cubicles were essentially just desks put in an extra-wide walkway. I was in that spot for less than a month when some piece of crap stole my pen. Then I was laid off a week later in the middle of the great recession. This was 10 years ago and I still resent my time spent at that company.
It was just a pen that didn't really carry any significance other than I liked it. But, that was my pen, marking the time I spent with that previous company and I couldn't replace it. mencken
Saphire Ghost.
My parents divorced when I was 5. I get on great with both of them and they get on great now too (it was a very long time ago) Anyway mum was going to give me their engagement ring when I got old enough, it was a beautiful dark green Saphire surrounded by little diamonds. I loved it from afar for many years.
Anyway she was taking it to get assessed for insurance purposes and went to get it out of her bag and it wasn't there. I was devastated and still miss that ring. The sentimentality, the representation of my parents marriage. Mum never seemed that bothered.
I still wonder if actually she just sold it. sometimesnowing
I was obsessed.
My ex bought me a $20 stuffed alpaca at the state fair in 2018. I felt bad because $20 feels like a lot for a toy but it was made with real alpaca fur and he had the cutest little crocheted hat. I was obsessed. A few hours later I put the bag down to tie my shoe and before I knew it, it was gone. Someone stole it and the worst part is that they definitely didn't appreciate the little guy as much as I did and probably gave it to their snot nosed kids to destroy. So upsetting to this day. Viiibrations
Lost. Found. Fly.
Well I got a aer lingus model plane for Christmas. It just went missing and I think someone at Christmas dinner robbed it. I still can't find it till this day and I cant seem to find where I get a new one. hypergemini2005
You can get them on any Aer Lingus flight or Dublin Airport- their website is theloop.ie. ididitforcheese
Thanks Bro. hypergemini2005
Grandma's Words....
GiphyIn high school I recorded an interview with my grandmother on my MP3 player for a family history project. She died about a year and a half later. I had that MP3 player in my car the night it was totaled. A few days after getting out of the hospital I went to get my crap out of my car. My MP3 was missing. I swear a cop stole it. Who else? The car was impounded. But I never found it and I wish I had backed that interview up to something else. killingcain
Pre-ER.
I into a hawthorn bush a few years back, when out for a walk. I didn't seem to be hurt, but there was a small, round brown dot on the side of my little finger, right at the lower knuckle. And the joint didn't want to bend.
Curious, I took the tweezers from my Swiss Army knife and pulled at the dot... and out slid a 3/4-inch Haw-thorn. It didn't hurt, the knuckle worked fine, and it never got infected. Nature's needles, those things. carmium
With BBQ Sauce?
GiphyER surgeon, had to remove a chicken nugget from someone's bum. And no not a partially eaten one, a full, perfectly kept chicken nugget lodged unusually far up someone's butt.
This seemed rather recent, the guy showed up with his buddies and they were all clearly drunk. The reason the man required surgery was because the way the nugget was lodged. It was stuck behind the rectum, closer to the sigmoid colon.
The nugget would've passed on its own eventually, however we were worried about potential blockages and infection. The procedure required no cutting, so we opted in favor of surgery to avoid any complications.
It would have eventually, but the consequences of waiting were uncertain.
Don't Swallow.
A condom, no... not auto correct, I had to remove a condom from a patient's small intestine. They swallowed it. EarthySwing1029
The Abs....
My mum once spent an evening removing fish, chips and several pints of beer from a guy's abdominal cavity. H e got drunk and tried to kill himself by stabbing himself in the heart. But he missed and stabbed his stomach instead... so his dinner ended up floating around his abdominal cavity. err-what
11 Inches?!
Giphy11 inch cucumber, pickle jar and shards of glass. cassie039
Usually i let them pickle in the fridge for a couple weeks, but i guess this would work too. thesmokestack
Why is it always the butt?!
Not a surgeon but a nurse here. My patient had to get a 5 pound metal dumbbell remove from his rectum. The whole thing was shoved in there. Everyone was pretty amazed he pulled that off. He did serious damage to his insides though.
I also had a patient who "fell" on the large cap of a can of carpet cleaner and it lodged in his rectum.
We actually have a lot of people shoving stuff up their butts and not being able to get them out. Easy-Growth
Quite Impressive.
Not a surgeon but was on my ER rotation in med school. A guy came in and he had stuck an 8 inch glass dildo up his backside too far and lost it. I took a picture of the CT scan on my old phone. It was quite impressive to say the least. Tuhrontoh_TML
slurp....
Not about a person and I'm not a doctor but thought this was interesting/funny. When I was a kid our poor bloodhound LOVED to get into the trash. One day my mom saw him in the backyard really struggling to pinch it off so she walked out there to see what's up. She saw a still intact bread bag hangin' out his backside. She stepped on the end to give it some grip and I kid you not this dog took off running with a lil slurp upon exit. Poor guy.
And yes, we immediately got a trash can he could no longer access. stevegburg69
A Sand What?
GiphyI am not a surgeon but i knew someone who ran the x-rays at the hospital and she told me about this old man in his 60s that had to get a sand pit shovel removed from his butt. And it was entirely inside of the anus. tntreigns
Congratulations! It's a... Phillip's?
I'm OB/GYN. A patient came to Labor and Deliver around midnight with the following complaint, "My boyfriend was putting the crib together and he left stuff all over the bed. I was tired so I lay down to sleep and I think something got up inside me." I did a vaginal exam and pulled out a screwdriver, philips head. Thankfully it was handle side first, not pointy side towards baby. Papdoc
Bad Hopper!
GiphyGrasshopper leg from underneath the conjunctiva (outer layer of skin on the front of the eyeball).
Grasshopper jumped hard, ran into his eyeball. Got stuck and wiggled, part of the leg broke off. Grass-limper got away, but the foot/ankle did not. monkeysa47
STUCK!
Crayon from an ear canal.
Shampoo bottle from the rectum.
Jar of coconut oil from the rectum.
Rolled ball of aluminum foil from a male's urethra.
Pencil from a male's urethra.
There's more but those are the ones that stick out. Unluckily for them, those didn't... stick out... SucculentOwl
allegedly!!!!
When my friend was doing her nurses training in the ER a guy came in with an empty jam jar stuck up his bum, his excuse? - He had just had a shower & (whilst still wet) sat down in his chair. What he hadn't noticed was the empty jam jar on the chair & because he was wet & as a result, slippery the jam jar just happened to "slip" up his bottom... allegedly! Stabby-the-cat
Silly Corgi!
So true. Had a corgi who swallowed a cooked chicken whole, bones and all. No problem. He liked chewing up razor-sharp mussel shells, dead horseshoe crabs. The best was his expression when he licked up a gumdrop covered with tiny brown ants. He loved dried-up worms on the sidewalk. He was a tough guy, but even with that digestive tract he nearly died from food-poisoning a couple times! waupakisco
Go for 3?
GiphyOh man, not a surgeon but I did this.
Was eating jelly beans in the living room and I was not supposed to be eating in the living room. My dad came in and so I hid them in the most logical spot, my nose. Couldn't get them out so I had to go to the hospital to get them removed. Didn't do this once, but twice. squiddo_the_kiddo
THE WORST SMELL
I was running anesthesia on a chocolate lab for a foreign body surgery. Turns out he ate the owners used menstrual pad. That was THE WORST SMELL I have ever experienced in a career of pulling rotting garbage out of dogs intestines and cleaning up crap on the daily. BlackoutXForever
Mommy's First...
My friend had a child at 16 and was terrified of not being a good mother. She read lots of books and took every free parenting classes that was out there at that time.
Her daughter was around 2 when she started smelling really bad from her nose. She took her to the Doctor immediately still really scared of being called an unfit mother. The Doctor took a look and laugh. The kid had put a toy loose stuffing in her nose. They took it out and she was fine. She told me that she cried at lot more than her daughter. sonia72quebec
Turkey Day Chronicles.
Former nurse, called to ER for to set up for foreign body removal on Thanksgiving evening. OK someone didn't chew their turkey... super predictable holiday call. Arrive at ER and Doc says to set up a colonoscopy. Wait what? 20 y/o male had "fallen" on a shot glass. Look at the x-rays and yep, there it is' but something didn't look quite normal about it. Start the scope and find a rainbow blinking LED shot glass. Doc says, "So you think he wants us to take it out or just change the batteries?" mtcrabtree
Leave it In!
Honestly, a tiny, insignificant little speck of metal that a guy got in his arm. There was literally no reason it needed to come out because it had been there a long time and had never gotten infected or caused a problem. But he was absolutely dead set on having it out, even when I warned him that digging it out of his muscle was more likely to cause bleeding, scarring, pain, etc.
And he wasn't willing to do it with just local. Oh No. Had to be put under full general anesthesia, and after 3 minutes of waiting for the prep to dry I then spent about 4 seconds making an incision and popping out the dumb thing.
Second dumbest was a kid who fell in the woods, landed on an outstretched hand, and had a wound on their palm that never healed for literally months. Eventually got sent to me for evaluation, and I numbed up their hand and pulled out an almost one inch long chunk of some kind of plant stem that had been jammed up in their hand the whole time.Immortal_So_Far
