Man finds knife in back 3 years after stabbing
YELLOWKNIFE, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES (AP) - A Canadian man was just scratching what he thought was an old itch this week when it turned out to be a knife blade that had been buried in his back for almost three years.
Billy McNeely said this week it all goes back to an April, 2010, birthday party in McNeely's home town of Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories. McNeely got into a fight over an arm-wrestling contest and was stabbed five times. A doctor stitched him up back then and never took X-Rays.
Ever since, McNeely would set off metal detector and he's had a lump in his back where the knife went in. It never stopped nagging him and grew more painful this week.
Doctors dug out a blade measuring about 2.7 inches.
Billy McNeely said this week it all goes back to an April, 2010, birthday party in McNeely's home town of Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories. McNeely got into a fight over an arm-wrestling contest and was stabbed five times. A doctor stitched him up back then and never took X-Rays.
Ever since, McNeely would set off metal detector and he's had a lump in his back where the knife went in. It never stopped nagging him and grew more painful this week.
Doctors dug out a blade measuring about 2.7 inches.
Got stabbed only to still find the knife 3 years later? Leno's reaction; Guess he works for NBC too. ;)
I just found out last year I've got some 15 year old shrapnel in me but they left it in place. Now I know its there I always think I can feel it.
@Root Please Do you set off metal detectors too?
Yikes, that is one tough mudder to be walking around with a blade in his back and not know it. Â Most of us know when we have even a splinter and can't wait to get it out. Â "Shake it off, Johnny, rub some dirt on it!"
I don't think there is an option for pursuing a malpractice suit....it's Canada...Â
@SheilaKAÂ The option is there. Just most Canadians shrug it off and move on with their life.Â
Now how do you miss that? Now there's a doctor I won't be using. And what's really funny is this apparently came from a place called Yellowknife!
Wow... honestly I would be going back to that doctor for at minimum a full refund of the medical bills for that guy!
@Freespeech Medical bills? Not in Canada. :)Â
@FreespeechI've spent a lot of time working in Bush Alaska and other rural communities, so this really doesn't surprise me. Â Not that the medical care was necessarily lacking, but small communities like that usually don't have much more than basic trauma care at the clinic, let alone an x-ray machine.
Fort Good Hope only has 500 people in it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Good_Hope
@wsmith_84Â If I am not mistaken, Fort Good Hope is a fly in community. So I am inclined to agree with you on that one. Most smaller communities are lucky enough to have a doctor in town.Â
????????? o_o
Is there a trailer involved in this story at all? Â WTH? Â
Makes my skin crawl just thinking about it.
I can't believe he didn't get an infection over this.
I'm suffering from Possible Punchline Overdose.
That's the true meaning of "Stabbed in the back".
Holy cow! He didn't feel the blade in his body? Craziness.
Wow. I'd be asking some serious questions of the doctor who stitched him up and didn't bother giving an x-ray to a stabbing victim to make sure everything was alright inside. Those were obviously some fairly deep stab wounds if that blade was all the way in his back.
@spacegoddessI've spent a lot of time working in Bush Alaska and other rural communities, so this really doesn't surprise me. Â Not that the medical care was necessarily lacking, but small communities like that usually don't have much more than basic trauma care at the clinic, let alone an x-ray machine.
Fort Good Hope only has 500 people in it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Good_Hope
@spacegoddess Well, you get what you get when it is socialized health care...
@TheBronze Hey now at least he won't have a 6K or more bill to pay unlike here. He is probably thanking his lucky stars that it didn't severe his spinal cord and move on from the bad experience.Â
Ahh, government healthcare at it's best, coming soon to America.
@UnsalvageableI've spent a lot of time working in Bush Alaska and other rural communities, so this really doesn't surprise me. Â Not that the medical care was necessarily lacking, but small communities like that usually don't have much more than basic trauma care at the clinic, let alone an x-ray machine.
Fort Good Hope only has 500 people in it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Good_Hope
Wow, not the brightest!
HOLY SMOKES!!! Â Incredible!! Â Hope he will be all right now!