Comments on: Old Newspaper Finds:: A Needle’s Rambles

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:16:44 +0000

Seriously? This can’t be true… what kind of needle would you even lose in your body like that? WOW! That is really all I can say… WOW!

By: Caroline Gurney

Caroline Gurney — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:44:48 +0000

Yeuch! How gross. I shall never look at needles the same way again. Great post, though.

By: Dee Blakley

Dee Blakley — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:36:03 +0000

How wild!

I love looking at old news articles, too. You just never know what you will find.

And now that you have transcribed this one, someone using Google might find out a very neat story about one of their ancestors…

By: Cynthia Shenette

Cynthia Shenette — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:39:52 +0000

My grandmother use to talk about this type of thing all the time! She was a seamstress and was always telling me to be careful with needles. She made a point of putting them in a pin cushion. She never held pins in her mouth like some did either. I remember her telling me about someone who lost a needle in her arm, because she pinned it in her sleeve and lost track of the needle. The needle traveled through the skin and ended up in her heart and killed her. My grandmother’s theory was the needles always traveled toward the heart with the blood flow. All these years I wondered if it was an old wives tale. Maybe not…

Thanks for posting!