May 2, 2007

• Scars and How

   

  This weeks photo challenge is hosted by Moonlight_Sonata22

  Her subject is Scars (and how you got them)

  First, an ultra closeup of my oldest scar:
  

  In second grade, about 55 years ago, running on the playground, I fell and skinned my knee.  The school nurse cleaned the wound and bandaged it.  Several days later, as it had grown sorer and swollen, my father examined the wound closely, then used the tip of his pocket knife (after sterilizing it in the flame of his Zippo lighter) to dig out the piece of gravel that was lodged in my knee.

  The next one is more recent:
  
  Over a year ago, this was a third degree burn on my thumb.  I got it from inadvertently gripping the edge of the opening on my woodstove along with the piece of firewood I was trying to reposition in the stove.   The groove is from the subsurface tissue damage.
  

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