<p>alright, so i had a little black thing in my arm for a WHILE. I mean when I was like 13 I remember my little brother stabbing me with his pencil in that spot; turns out that little black thing is the lead off that pencil. How’d I find out? Well recently I noticed bruise marks (that’s what they look like in appearance, they don’t hurt) on my cheeks and I would also feel random pain in nearly all my joints. Turns out, that little peace of lead gave me a small amount of lead poisoning according to my doctor. He said he wants the peice out ASAP and he will also try to clean out what little lead he can with treatment. HOWEVER, he said I should really take a day or two after the surgery to rest. Now here’s the bad thing, ;( he said monday or tuesday is when he has access to the surgery room at the hospital. Only thing is 
AP BIO on monday and AP Chem on Tuesday :(! !!! What do I do??? Will I have to skip a test? I don’t want to ;(</p>
<p>If you’ve had the thing in there for years, can’t it wait another week?</p>
<p>Um it’s kinda… self explanatory. Surgery > AP Exams
Make up APs or Make up surgery
Your choice</p>
<p>take the aps later- make them up, call collegeboard and tell them you are having surgery</p>
<p>I feel so bad for you right now! But unless you’ve majorly studied for those two tests and you think you’ll do much better now than next month, I don’t see the problem with missing it. But how did you get lead poisoning? I thought pencils weren’t made with lead anymore? Good luck with your surgery, and feel better!</p>
<p>I thought you couldn’t make up AP’s or something like the makeup was harder ;(
but lol… 3ppl replied that quickly</p>
<p>Your sugery is a whole lot more important :-)</p>
<p>i disagree w/ppl here. makeup is DEFINATELY harder… confirmed by various sources. </p>
<p>im sorry for your injury but please, surgery can wait a week unless its life threatening. pretend you found out about it a week later. did the bruises appear recently?</p>
<p>Uh… isn’t pencil “lead” actually graphite which is solid carbon?</p>
<p>Very good, pencil “lead” is graphite, which shouldn’t poison you. Though I could imagine it might cause some inflammation…</p>
<p>And you’re taking AP chemistry??</p>
<p>Yeah it is…</p>
<p>To the little kid who just IMed me on AIM, please don’t waste my time again. If you’re looking for friends, close the books and go outside. Don’t IM me</p>
<p>Anyway, i’d like to see a followup on this thread… Graphite pencil = Lead poisoning?</p>
<p>when i was 5 i was dragging my hand across a wood railing, and got a huge sliver in my palm. i got out what i could, but i think i left a little in there. it healed over and i still have a brown dot there, about the size of half a grain of rice. this is almost 12 years later 
i reckon it would be good to get it out.</p>
<p>Wait, so you had a piece of lead in your arm for YEARS?</p>
<p>I mean, if your brother poked you with a pencil, it must have pierced your skin if the tip of the pencil got under… if it pierced your skin, you MUST have taken the tip out… no?</p>
<p>hey its possible, it is very common dat some of the paints used for the pencil coating are lead-based and when the tip of the pencil penetrated the surface of the skin, some residual deterioraring parts of the paint, together with a saturated lead contaminated air (due to his parents using leaded petrol), fell and in the affected zone(by a graphite incision) . Secondly, if your little brother was just eating Hershey’s candy bar and put the tip of the pencil in his mouth. Then, also if u dyed your hair at that time and had a bath, maybe the dissolved lead molecules of the hair colourants did came into contact with the affected zone.</p>
<p>I do recommend an immediate chelation therapy and a complete emotional, psychological evaluation.</p>
<p>I do like to talk rubbish once in a while, sorry :-)</p>
<p>There were these guys in my class who started poking each other with pencils and I guess they went in the skin pretty deep, because they all got these nasty, huge bruises and cuts that hurt a lot according to them.</p>
<p>sarorah - do report those cases immediately to the National Health Institute and to all the NGOs lobbying against lead abuse…</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.leadabuse-victimstalk.org%5B/url%5D”>www.leadabuse-victimstalk.org</a></p>
<p>The site won’t work…but what would they do?</p>
<p>haha he is joking</p>