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Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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This is a real problem. My wife had been having extreme stomach pain for months, multiple trips to the emergency room, gastroenterologist, nothing could be found. She described that she felt that there was a hole in her stomach, the doctors called it stress. On her final ER visit (two months after the pain began), something showed up in the CT scan (the 3rd one). Embedded in her belly fat was a wire. Everything click…

By the time it reached her belly fat, was the pain any less?

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Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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This is a real problem. My wife had been having extreme stomach pain for months, multiple trips to the emergency room, gastroenterologist, nothing could be found. She described that she felt that there was a hole in her stomach, the doctors called it stress. On her final ER visit (two months after the pain began), something showed up in the CT scan (the 3rd one). Embedded in her belly fat was a wire. Everything click…

By the time it reached her belly fat, was the pain any less?

The pain transformed from "there's a hole in my stomach" to "I have a painful lump under my belly button". It was easy to miss, and initially the doctors were just like "Oh it's your belly button". But then one doctor took a closer look with the CT scan and BAM.

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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This is a real problem. My wife had been having extreme stomach pain for months, multiple trips to the emergency room, gastroenterologist, nothing could be found. She described that she felt that there was a hole in her stomach, the doctors called it stress. On her final ER visit (two months after the pain began), something showed up in the CT scan (the 3rd one). Embedded in her belly fat was a wire. Everything click…

Isn't a metal wire highly visible in x-ray? How doctors miss that?

The only xray given were CT scans. How it was missed I don't know. It could have to do with the orientation of the wire.

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A trick I learned from Argentinian circus people, who make amazing BBQ, is let the grill heat up and then cut an onion in half to rub on the grate. It imparts a nice flavor and cleans the grill very well.

Off topic but any other tricks you learned from Argentinian circus people? Or circus people in general?

For a little while my kid had a circus performer (Belgian not Argentinian) for a nanny. He was just a kid who needed some extra money. Turns out he was realy mountain unicyclng too, which I had not ever heard of before.

It turns out they make cute little unicycles for four year olds. Amazing! All he really learned was unicycling, biking, some inappropriate language in English, and general irresponsibility. All of which have served him well.

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

#286

Slight related topic: Anyone else BBQ a lot, reach to open a beer bottle, but are missing an opener? Why don't they make every BBQ utensil have a decent bottle opener at the end. Better yet, every utensil in your house? Please take this idea and run with, just tell me where to buy a set.

If you need a special tool to get your beer open, you don't want to drink badly enough.

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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Fuck this I'm done with brushes.

I just saw this at my state fair. I think I'll be getting one now: https://www.amazon.com/Woody-Paddle-Natural-Scraper-Scrape/d...

They have these at my local Costco. Been thinking about it for a while, but I decided to just make my own with an old piece of fence.

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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This issue is actually not isolated to just barbecues and barbecue brushes although the fact that it gets into your food does make it worse. A few weeks ago my friend invited me to their high class HOA pool that had a sand beach. Wading around in about a foot of water I felt something pierce my foot when I took a step. When I pulled my foot out of the water to see what it was I could see it was a thin piece of metal…

I reached down to grab a piece of wood to place into my campfire years ago and felt this unbelievably jarring pain go through my thumb (considering how gently I had placed my hand down to grab the piece of wood, the level of pain was immense).

There was a very tiny piece of something stuck in my thumb, which I was able to remove but not able to inspect very closely as it was pitch black outside and I was working with a flashlight.

I wrote it off as most likely being a splinter of glass from somebody's smashed beer bottle that had gone straight through my skin.

Reading this, however... it was much more likely a metal bristle from somebody's cheap camping brush that they used to clean their camping grill.

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

#290

This would be perfect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcvcEg0xGYY And only about $250,000 each.

Could probably just throw out the grill at that point, that thing should cook steak just fine.

There is a video of the operator putting his finger in the path of the beam and it just goes over it no harm leaving a void.
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