DAVID WILLIAMS wrote to JAMES BRADLEY, "Re: Levitation... and GO"
on 07-01-05
10:26

 ->  MM> Heh !  Teaching in a NZ country school once,  the timid kid at the
 ->  MM> staffroom door with a hurting foot was told by the senior woman to
 ->  MM> wait until teachers had finished their lunch.   I went outside to
 ->  MM> have a look, and found he was right - his foot WAS hurting - he'd
 ->  MM> somehow pierced it with a 6 inch nail....

 -> WA!!! I just know the kid was stoically wondering when
 -> someone would notice
 -> there was an issue worth address! Heck, I put a rusty tack into the very
 -> *point* of my heal, that kept me from baseball practice
 -> for a week, so I cou
 -> only imagine what a through-and-through could do to curtail your
 -> recess!

 DW> When I was a kid, I accidentally stepped on a piece of wood that had a
 DW> rusty nail sticking up out of it. It *nearly* went right through my
 DW> foot - I could see the point of it pushing upward on the skin on the top
 DW> of my foot. But it didn't hurt terribly. It did bleed a lot, when I
 DW> pulled it out, though.

 DW> Someone put some disinfectant and a band-aid on it, and it soon healed
 DW> up. I forgot about it until quite recently, when I injured the same
 DW> foot and it became swollen. Then, on the top, a deep dimple appeared
 DW> where the nail had nearly come through. There must still be some scar
 DW> tissue which didn't swell like the normal adjacent tissue.


You did this in TO I guess. (Or, is that Ta'rona? |-)

I guess there's nothing that would bleed you out, but the MD always
wants to see you attached to the board, you know? They likely need the
money!

You've heard CA glue (AKA: Crazy! ;-) can make great stitch replacement?
Now, they just wash you out, look for squirts, then glue you up.


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