My wife read this over my shoulder and burst out laughing. She said, “It’s like tilting at windmills!”Mostly they do try to take care of us guys. It must seem like a waste of time to them at times.
My wife read this over my shoulder and burst out laughing. She said, “It’s like tilting at windmills!”Mostly they do try to take care of us guys. It must seem like a waste of time to them at times.
Well, I never plan on getting hurt so I don't keep them around! The last time with the stitches they put dissolving stitches deep in the meaty part of my hand and steri strips on top-like surgeons do. I was pulling the transmission out of my truck and sliced it nice and deep on a frame rail, I wanted to just put butterfly bandages on the cut, then the voice of reason spoke up "you're being an idiot, let's go to the hospital."Don't you have a great big drawer full of Steri-strips? Most of the stitches I've had, I felt like, would have healed better, less scaring, with a liberal application of steri-strips. Once I found out about those, I felt ripped-off by the ED's that stitched me up before that.
You should keep several boxes on hand. Those and Coban wraps. Multiple roles. We found the ones we bought for our horses were a lot cheaper.
-Will (Dragonfly)
That "voice of reason" got me two scars on the back of my hand. Actually, a chisel on one occasion, and a bowsaw on another occasion, are what got me the scars. They are both right next to each other and demonstrate the difference between a hack clinic doctor and a competent and skilled ED doctor. You can hardly see the one done in the ED where as the one done in a convenient clinic looks like Mary Shelly wrote the suture guide the guy had to leave the room to read in the middle of stitching me up. He also had to make a "consultation" call to another doctor. While poking me over and over again with a pin to try and make it bleed more. "Just want to make sure you hadn't nicked an artery."I wanted to just put butterfly bandages on the cut, then the voice of reason spoke up "you're being an idiot, let's go to the hospital."
This doctor was pretty good, I did it in February and the scar is less noticeable than almost all of my older stitch and surgery scars.That "voice of reason" got me two scars on the back of my hand. Actually, a chisel on one occasion, and a bowsaw on another occasion, are what got me the scars. They are both right next to each other and demonstrate the difference between a hack clinic doctor and a competent and skilled ED doctor. You can hardly see the one done in the ED where as the one done in a convenient clinic looks like Mary Shelly wrote the suture guide the guy had to leave the room to read in the middle of stitching me up. He also had to make a "consultation" call to another doctor. While poking me over and over again with a pin to try and make it bleed more. "Just want to make sure you hadn't nicked an artery."
Steri-strips would have been fine, but I was young and had never heard of them.
-Will (Dragonfly)
My first aid kit has a bottle of super glue (the gel kind) for deep cuts and a pack of redman chewing tobacco for bee stings and ant bites.Don't you have a great big drawer full of Steri-strips? Most of the stitches I've had, I felt like, would have healed better, less scaring, with a liberal application of steri-strips. Once I found out about those, I felt ripped-off by the ED's that stitched me up before that.
You should keep several boxes on hand. Those and Coban wraps. Multiple roles. We found the ones we bought for our horses were a lot cheaper.
-Will (Dragonfly)
I DO know the feeling!Even with a wetsuit on, all that last evening was like the biggest enema you'll ever have.
But Will!!! Think of all the $$$$ you save in doctor visits.... was like the biggest enema you'll ever have.
-Will (Dragonfly)
I love that poem, 31.
I shall remember that story to my very last day.
May that be a long time coming! Thanks for the comment. Usually I include pictures with my poems, but didn't have a phone or a camera that day.
Oh yes, I thought that some of the metaphysical imagery was really particularly effective.If you can abide my poetry
Don't forget to confront the post-modernistic deconstruction of the self juxtaposed against postfoundational paradigms of obligation and authority.Oh yes, I thought that some of the metaphysical imagery was really particularly effective.
Oh... and, er... interesting rhythmic devices too, which seemed to counterpoint the... er... er...
counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor of the... er... humanity of the poet's compassionate soul, which contrives through the medium of the verse structure to sublimate this, transcend that, and come to terms with the fundamental dichotomies of the other.
And one is left with a profound and vivid insight into... into... whatever it was the poem was about!