->  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! 
  
When I was a kid, I accidentally stepped on a piece of wood that had a 
rusty nail sticking up out of it. It *nearly* went right through my 
foot - I could see the point of it pushing upward on the skin on the top 
of my foot. But it didn't hurt terribly. It did bleed a lot, when I 
pulled it out, though. 
  
Someone put some disinfectant and a band-aid on it, and it soon healed 
up. I forgot about it until quite recently, when I injured the same 
foot and it became swollen. Then, on the top, a deep dimple appeared 
where the nail had nearly come through. There must still be some scar 
tissue which didn't swell like the normal adjacent tissue. 
  
                        dow 
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