What is Self Surgery?
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When you have some sort of bodily affliction you can fix on your own and you utilize household tools. If you don't have to go to the ER and you can do it on your own.
Personal surgery.
Tools could include using things like butter knives, steak knives, tweezers, scissors, needles, razor blades, finger nails, etc...
I was on a <bender> and ended up with a burn on my leg from when I fell in the bonfire. I have performed self surgery and cut out the burn area with a butter knife; avoiding the perilous emergency room.
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