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This Guy Suffered From Chronic Back Pain for Nearly 3 Years — He Just Identified the Unbelievable Reason Why

Mar. 21, 2013 5:30pm Jason Howerton

Meet Billy McNeely, a 32-year-old man from Canada who got into a fight with a man over an arm-wrestling match at a birthday party in 2010. The dispute resulted in McNeely being stabbed five times.

He rushed to the hospital and got stitched up by doctors. Then he got on with his life.

But the incident left him with a permanent and painful back itch that wouldn’t relent. Earlier this week, he found out what was causing it: a knife blade that had been buried in his skin for nearly three years.

Man Finds Knife Blade in His Back After Three Years

(National Post)

(The Canadian Press)

McNeely told the National Post that he and his girlfriend were asleep in bed when he began having back issues.

“I sat up, I tried to rub it and scratch it the way I always did, and then the tip of my nail caught a piece of something solid, something sharp,” he said. “My girlfriend got up and she started playing around with it and she maneuvered my back in a certain way and the tip of a blade poked out of my skin.”

He went straight to the hospital and doctors found a blade about 2.5 inches long lodged in his flesh.

“I’ve got it in my pocket right now,” McNeely added.

While the 32-year-old is happy to finally know what was causing his back issues, he is pretty upset that doctors never took an x-ray to make sure he didn’t have any internal damage, which would have shown the blade.

“I walked around for close to three years with this thing in my back,” he lamented. “They brushed me off.”

He says he is considering a lawsuit against a hospital in Fort Good Hope, the hospital he went the day he was stabbed.

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notmeatglennbeckdotcom
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:50am
And next year with Socialized Medicine, you too will be eligible for all sorts of f*** ups by Medical “professionals” everywhere.

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therapist
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:56am
Love that socialized medicine..it’s a beauty aay?

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TheEndIsComing
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:44am
This brings a whole new literal meaning to the saying “I’ve got this stabbing pain in my shoulder.”

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cosmic dogma
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:10am
Canada. Hmmm. Free health care for everyone. Guess you get what you pay for.

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LB
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:49am
Time to ban arms…no more wrestling, it may lead to knife in back

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capitalismrocks
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:46pm
Canada doesn’t have x-ray machines?!?!? Good old Socialized Medicine, you only get just enough treatment, but not too much, eh…. don’t want to run up any expensive billing the government would have to pay for eh?

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- saranda
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 10:57am
  Fort Good Hope is very remote northern town with less than 600 people.
  
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Databyter
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:22pm
I was in a bad car accident where I managed to fall out onto the pavement already littered with pieces of my car.

In tbe hospital I complained of head pain and scalp ache so severe it made me naseus but I was not even allowed to wash my blood covered **** (that smelled), muchless get a lookover in that atra. They were worried about my chest and broken femur.

Unhappy with many aspects of my care I checked out of the hospital with more damage done to me in surgery and botched therapy than was necessary and I’ve suffered for it ever since.

But what reminded me of this story was that when getting a haircut months later a salon employee asked me if I was aware of colored piece of glass in my ****.

I said no and asked her to remove it. Which turned out to be tbe tip of a rather large piece of glass embedded in my skull. She asked if I should go to the hospital to get it out and I said HELL NO! and she used some alchohol and just pulled the damn thing out with some large squeezing tool that locked and probably was what a doctor would use anyway. I forget what it was called and surprised that she had one in a **** salon.

She got the haircut money plus a $20 tip for surgery :)

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snufy
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 10:16pm
I still have a brass piece of a shell casing in my cheek from when a M-14 fired out of battery. The doctor stiched it up without checking to see if there was shrapnel inside the would.

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- woodyee
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 10:58pm
  Double-feed or reloading error?
  
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woodyee
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 9:43pm
“I’ve got it in my pocket right now,” McNeely added.

So he puts it in his pocket! Jiminy Cricket! Maybe he got stabbed for being dumb!!

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vendingdude
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 9:28pm
Good Gawd, what would have happened if he gone to see his chiropractor?

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ktmrider1
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 9:13pm
how come the wonderfull free medical treament they get in prison didn’t pick that up? I want my tax dollars back

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JTX
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 8:54pm
This will come to the USA under a social medicine system.

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lizhongxin
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 8:25pm
Being a Canadian, who is quite familiar with Yellowknife, i wrote a lengthy explanation as to why such a procedure took place, but it was promptly removed. I guess TheBlaze found it racist because I mentioned the truth that this procedure took place on a criminal native, that nobody cares about, and that while our healthcare is a nightmare, it’s not THAT bad

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- lizhongxin
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 8:29pm
  my bad, I messed up with the settings, and my comment wasn’t erased. Sorry for any confusion
  
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- AlaskaismyEden
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 8:43pm
  I am often in Canada, and have a better experience with the health care system there than many, I’m thankful to say. On the other hand, I have to agree with you in many ways, as I’ve also dealt quite a bit with First Nations (native indians), and it hasn’t been easy. They have many problems, including issues with alcohol, but in their defense, let’s not forget that they lack a gene most of us have that deals with alcohol. As a result, they are very prone to alcoholism, and fetal alcohol syndrome has taken its toll. On the other hand, the government has also encouraged them, it seems to me, to abandon their traditional hunting/fishing/subsistence living in return for a government paycheck. This has probably also taken its toll. Socialism at its best still sucks, and just won’t work in our imperfect world.
  
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- lizhongxin
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:05am
  You’re so right about the natives. I honestly don’t see any positive outcome for them. They live on government checks in their reserves, they sit around getting drunk all day, they’re so incredibly dirty and lazy, that it’s difficult to feel for them. As an immigrant, I can tell you that nobody likes natives. It seems like the only time they get off their ass to do anything, it’s to picket and complain about more land that belongs to them; while they may have some points, I don’t see how the rest of society will ever accept them, when they’re blocking bridges and camp grounds for their agenda, which in the end is always about getting more from the government. I’ve never seen another group of people that are so obsessed with having the government take care of them.
  
  I honestly can’t think of any way to fix the natives’ problems. I’m sure some Americans from places like LA, or NY would read my post and say I’m exaggerating, and generalizing. Yes I am generalizing, but no I’m not exaggerating, and all you have to do is drive through any native reserve here in BC to see what I’m talking about. Try to find ONE clean house, one yard without garbage all over it… It’s honestly that filthy. They leave dozens of garbage bags on their balconies, for whatever reason, and always have a broken down car on their lawn…
  
  This isn’t hate speech, it’s the absolute truth. Sure there are some hard working Natives, but that’s probably about 1 in a 100, if th
  
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shogun459
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 8:16pm
Funny how Socialized anything makes more people Die.

And Funnier still is that we ever listen Socialists the Sencond Time instead of jailing them for the deaths they cause.

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AlaskaismyEden
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 8:15pm
Had a similar, but less serious experience when I was 12. Drove a complete sewing needle into my heel (it was in the carpet). Mom couldn’t see it, thought it wasn’t serious. After four months of complaining about having the occasional shooting pain in my foot, she took me in for an x-ray. The needle had migrated from my heel to just behind the ball of my foot, and was beginning to emerge. The doctor did a small incision and removed it. I still have the x-ray. Strange things happen. This was one lucky guy!

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 8:14pm
With the onset of obamacare,…all of the doctors will be from the 3rd world. It will be hard to find a knife blade by wanding the wound with a chicken-foot.

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lizhongxin
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 8:04pm
As a Canadian, I had to comment on this.

I would first like to admit that our socialized healthcare is terrible. You have to wait for a long time to get checked, you deal with overworked doctors, and the hospitals are understaffed. That being said, This specific case is due to a few reasons, that need to be mentioned.

This procedure was done in a simple clinic, in one of the shittiest parts of Canada, on some loser criminal native that nobody cares about. I’ve had friends that lived and worked for years up in Yellowknife, and they describe it as a wasteland crawling with drunken hostile natives (indians). What’s hilarious is the place looks as though it’s full of homeless people, but it’s actually full of natives from a nearby dry reserve, that hitch a ride to Yellowknife to get drunk. They spend time loitering in malls, screaming at people in a drunken rage for no reason, urinate on public buildings, and they sleep on the streets until they find their way back to the reserve.

My point of telling this story is actually in defense of Canada. The truth is nobody cares about criminal, alcoholic, loser natives up in NWT, and while our healthcare system is a nightmare, it’s not THAT bad..

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- cosmic dogma
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:19am
  From your comments, I would suggest you seek out a Canadian KKK, anti-Native branch. Hopefully, they,(the Natives), haven’t joined a Canadian KKK against self righteous new immigrants branch. Probably too busy drinking, throwing around trash and urinating on “your” country.
  
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- lizhongxin
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:21am
  lol yeah I think the KKK will welcome Li, Zhongxin! Your comment was absolutely adorable :)
  
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bondroid
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 8:02pm
Talk about a knife in your back….

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ChiefGeorge
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:38pm
First I am happy to hear he is really now got this resolved.

One should know their bodies well, what makes us happy, sad, motiviated, itch, twitch, cramp up, etc. Never ever take the Docs word for all is well or that his/her prognosis is spot on. I’ve guided more doctors to the correct problem with me than I can count. If it does’nt seem of feel right, then tust your gut something is wrong….like the woman who complained for sometime after chest surgery that something felt itchy inside her chest, they reassured her all was well and she was just healing up,….this persisted and so did she, they took a chest xray and found a large gauze patch for blood mopping had been left in her. They had to crack her open and again and get it out.

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Rickfromillinois
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:22pm
So is there any wonder that the head of one of Canada’s Province came to the United States for medical procedure on his heart?

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- saranda
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:02am
  Or that Sarah Palin admits to taking her family across the Alaska border to Canada to get medical care. Goes both ways.
  
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Warphead
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:17pm
All joking aside. My foot and ankle were crushed in a motorcycle accident 20 years ago. For probably the five years after the accident I would get a spot that itched. After scratching it a few times something would protrude through the skin. A little more scratching and it would come out far enough to pull it out. It was always the same. Just another piece of bone fragment. It’s funny how the body deals with things like that. The strangest thing that ever happened was one day I had an itch near where the thumb connects ts to the hand. The itching went on for several days until a small bump appeared. A day or two later the bump was bigger and I squeezed it. A perfectly round white object about 1/2 the size of a BB came out. Whatever it was it was very hard, like glass or ceramic. It left a perfect little hole in my skin but no bleeding. The hole healed up after maybe a day or two. Unfortunately I lost the little white sphere. I have often wondered what it was. It seemed to perfectly round and hard to be a piece of bone. An alien implant of some sort maybe. That would explain a few things.

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Bill Wallace
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:12pm
Yes. THIS is the type of care you get with socialized medicine. And the kicker?

In the US, an xray probably would have been ordered. Yes, it would have cost a couple hundred dollars in increased health care costs, but would have found a blade in the wound. A doctor who missed it would be guilty of malpractice.

But in Canada, it is almost impossible to get malpractice. Different laws on what expectations are for the patient, the disapproval of the Canadian Medical Association of having its doctors testify against its doctors, etc.

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Warphead
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:04pm
“Maneuvered his back in such a way that it poked through the skin.” Wouldn’t it have been easier if maybe she just “pointed” at it.

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Warphead
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:02pm
I have been telling you for years about socialized medicine. Now do you get the “Point.”

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scrapadapolis
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:57pm
Well this is also happenning to me.I have been a trucker/heavy equipment all my adult life 20 to 46.Before that a real paperboy wagon and all.before that at 5 to 7 when I was sick,Mom and dad worked,Dad did drywall.Guess where I went to daycare?Yup with dad.I spotted nails and picked them up and sanded dryed mud.The basic grunt.Now at 46 decided That my lungs and neck and lower back are shot.Finally went to get a doctor.No physical or initial workup.just whats wrong and i’ll sit here and write.Well upon a google search my new nurse pract.Who received a grant from the hospital where she was employeed earlier received a 222.000 grant to start her own practice.Guess what with out a total workup she recomended PT for neck and back.Little did she know I was crushed in a tractor trailer accident.she wouldn’t even let me get to that time in my life.But then again She wants my money and my time and I get nothing.Welecome to Syracuse NY.

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