Fuck this I'm done with brushes.

I've never ingested one, but I've spotted and removed bristles on my grills several times. I stopped using them awhile ago. It's only a matter of time before someone swallows one.

The more grill is heat, the higher chance wires come off the melting plastic. I've also noticed this before. Since then I was preheating the grill a bit, shut down the fire, clean up with the brush, heat and cook.

I'll probably go with the Argentinian circus people way of cleaning the grill starting from now.

I already do something similar, with a ball of aluminum foil soaked in water and tongs. I will switch to the "Argentinian circus people way" of doing it, and will call it that, and tell all my guests that's what it's called, forever.

I'm done with doctors. Stress? Give me a break.

That is not a very reasonable outburst. Stress does give similar symptoms to some people. The doctors had clearly tried according to best procedure, but it is a matter of luck whether something like a small bristle is visible in a cat scan. Regular x-ray, not possible.

And if the doctors make you go through dozens of cat scans, you'll probably make a noise about them making unnecessary expensive examinations.

I think that's a bit unfair. If they went to the point of two CT scans (which showed nothing), it's not like they were being dismissive. They were probably trying to give the best diagnosis they could with the evidence available.

I'm not one to typically experience much stress, but it sure sounds like a dubious explanation for the symptoms.

I'm sure we can all appreciate how hard it can be to diagnose an issue in a piece of modern technology like a car or a piece of software.

A doctor's job is diagnosing (often very vaguely described) problems in a living body, a structure which is vastly more complex than any technology we've ever produced, and they can't just shut it down and take it apart either.

It shouldn't surprise anybody that many diagnoses are going to be wrong. That doesn't mean they are useless. They just have to be right often enough so that your odds of finding a beneficial treatment for your ailment improve when you seek their aid. And I think that is the case.

Some doctors are downright dismissive and lazy, though (as with software developers). So try more than one doctor, I guess.

>Stress? Give me a break.

I think that's the point.

Abdominal pain is notoriously hard to diagnose. Always get a second opinion if it's serious.

Doctors seem to be unwilling to admit that they don't know something.

True enough. Doctors unafraid to admit not knowing something inevitably impress me the most (to the point of staying their patient even after moving to the other side of the city):

* A young GP who pulled out a medical book in front of me to consult it.

* My dentist who told me he’ll perform the extraction if I want him to, but that his colleague specializes in it and will do a better job.

I just saw this at my state fair. I think I'll be getting one now:

https://www.amazon.com/Woody-Paddle-Natural-Scraper-Scrape/d...

They have these at my local Costco. Been thinking about it for a while, but I decided to just make my own with an old piece of fence.

I have a nylon brush that works great, it's designed to be used when the grill is cold.

I use a metal scraper (no metal bristles) with extreme heat, plus a traditional root brush where the bristles are made of plant roots (as of old crowberry, nowadays commonly rice root). Root brush doesn't tolerate as much heat as metal bristles but more than nylon.

Glad your wife is ok. I dated a girl once who had a similar experience when she was younger. Her family thought she was complaining about nothing and eventually received treatment.

By the time it reached her belly fat, was the pain any less?

The pain transformed from "there's a hole in my stomach" to "I have a painful lump under my belly button". It was easy to miss, and initially the doctors were just like "Oh it's your belly button". But then one doctor took a closer look with the CT scan and BAM.

Isn't a metal wire highly visible in x-ray? How doctors miss that?

Also, aren't BBQ bristle brushes magnetic? Wouldn't a simple magnet over the spot have exacerbated the pain and triggered a closer look?

Not that you'd have known to use a magnet to test it, but now it's certainly something that could be considered on a checklist of cheap/free things to check before more expensive/time consuming/invasive procedures are initiated.

Bristles are brass (alloy of copper and zinc; corrosion resistant, food-safe), and not magnetic.

If they were magnetic, a CAT scan would rip it out I imagine

The only xray given were CT scans. How it was missed I don't know. It could have to do with the orientation of the wire.

Well, now I'm thoroughly terrified of BBQ.

You and me both. Yeesh!