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All of this talk of medical emergencies and the like, reminds me of one that happened long ago.
My older brother and I were going to build a tree house.
We needed to clear the small branches first, so we got mom's butcher knives and climbed the tree and started hacking at the stems. Before long my older brother noticed that I had the longer of the knives and demanded an exchange.
He grabbed a branch and swung at it and did not figure in the extra length. The end of the blade went thru his thumbnail and most of his thumb and blood went everywhere. He started to run to the house.
Again his calculations were wrong, he forgot that we were ten feet up a tree, so he grabbed me to regain his balance. Bad idea...
He hit the ground. I landed on him. Again he ran for the house.
Mom was in the house visiting with a new neighbor from a mile down the road. She saw the blood all over both of us and panicked. The neighbor grabbed my brother and ran to the kitchen, found the sugar canister and filled his uningured hand with sugar and shoved his bleeding thumb into it and tied his hands together with a dish towel.
She drove him and Mom to the doctor's office, some twenty miles away.
The doctor said that the sugar stopped the bleeding and that it saved his thumb.. no stitches.
He asked where the Idea came from. The neighbor said "Korea".
She was an army nurse. She said that they used salt there but she didn't think that he could handle the burn.
He still has a ripple in that thumbnail. That was a half century ago.
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My older brother and I were going to build a tree house.
We needed to clear the small branches first, so we got mom's butcher knives and climbed the tree and started hacking at the stems. Before long my older brother noticed that I had the longer of the knives and demanded an exchange.
He grabbed a branch and swung at it and did not figure in the extra length. The end of the blade went thru his thumbnail and most of his thumb and blood went everywhere. He started to run to the house.
Again his calculations were wrong, he forgot that we were ten feet up a tree, so he grabbed me to regain his balance. Bad idea...
He hit the ground. I landed on him. Again he ran for the house.
Mom was in the house visiting with a new neighbor from a mile down the road. She saw the blood all over both of us and panicked. The neighbor grabbed my brother and ran to the kitchen, found the sugar canister and filled his uningured hand with sugar and shoved his bleeding thumb into it and tied his hands together with a dish towel.
She drove him and Mom to the doctor's office, some twenty miles away.
The doctor said that the sugar stopped the bleeding and that it saved his thumb.. no stitches.
He asked where the Idea came from. The neighbor said "Korea".
She was an army nurse. She said that they used salt there but she didn't think that he could handle the burn.
He still has a ripple in that thumbnail. That was a half century ago.
#/;0{> ~ (c)