Before I even get into this story keep in mind that this person is a Doctor. Yes he is an actual doctor, well an astrophysicist to be exact. Listen boredom can get to the best of us and with the Coronavirus on the top of everyone’s mind you have to give Dr. Daniel Reardon in Australia credit for at least trying to use the boredom to come up with a way to prevent further spread of this virus.
The good Doctor was working a device that used magnets. Thinking that magnets would prevent people from touching their noses, he inserted these two little magnets into his nose, one in each nostril. If you know how magnets work, and most of us do, you know since we were little kids, you know that they then would get stuck to each other, and there’s a good chance that the small piece of bone known as a septum wouldn’t stop them from wanting to stick to each other. Apparently Dr. Reardon didn’t think that through because he was unable to take them out.
“It’s the same logic as clipping pegs to your ears – I clipped them to my earlobes and then clipped them to my nostril and things went downhill pretty quickly when I clipped the magnets to my other nostril.”
After all that he then tried to use another magnet to get them out. Of course that magnet then also got stuck and he had to go to the hospital.
“My partner took me to the hospital that she works in because she wanted all her colleagues to laugh at me. The doctors thought it was quite funny, making comments like ‘This is an injury due to self-isolation and boredom.’”
