healing up nicely
Doesn’t seem to be getting infected, and the proximity to my brain isn’t too concerning due to the legendary thickness of Og skulls.
The edges of the flap don’t have any blood flow so they died, and will eventually just fall off, but the rest of it is pink and looks OK. I’m glad I wasn’t able to see it or touch it because my skull was clearly exposed and I have already been through THAT.
Damn, I need a haircut. From this angle it looks ragged, but it’s actually a sort of a C shaped ‘Flap”. I’ve been told it looks like I’ve been kicked in the head by the world’s smallest horse.
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Interesting.
Mine took 29 stitches.
If there were a zombie apocalypse going on, I would have you put down on general principle. It looks like an obvious attempt by someone to eat your brains.
They’d have to find them first.
I have one like that and it took several stitches to close.
I also have a very thick skull which should help should we really have a zombie apocalypse.
I just have dents where I’ve bashed my head over the years. My head-bashings never rose to the level of stitches. Clearly I wasn’t involved in enough bar fights or crawled around in enough machinery with sharp edges.
My brother worked as a painter and glazier for NY State many years ago. One of his co-workers got banged in the head and was bleeding so he went to the medical department to have it looked at. He arrived with his hand over the wound, the doctor came over to him and said “Let me see”. He took his hand away, and the doctor fainted.
That did neither inspired confidence in the doctor, nor did it give him the warm-fuzzies about his injury.
Another doctor story, just because:
Same brother had HIP insurance (back when you went to a clinic). His wife went to the doctor for some lady-problems, the doctor proclaimed that she had herpes. They’d been married some 20 years at the time, both were looking askance at the other, each knowing they hadn’t been unfaithful and suspecting the other. Finally she went to another (non-HIP) doctor and got a correct diagnosis: yeast infection. A WORLD of difference between the two.
Maybe you a cowboy or rancher. Can’t hurt them hitting them in the head…. ;-)
I myself have a couple of “c” scars on my noggin. You were right about the blood flow from the scalp, a scratch will make you appear as if half your head is bashed in.
That’s a nice one, at least it won’t look like ringworm when it heals.
When I was a pup, we were jumping on my grandmothers hospital bed (it was in her room at her house). My folks left us there for a week one summer. The dust was barely settling from them leaving, when my big sister pushed me. I had one of those C shaped scars from hitting the foot board. My aunt came and got us, and my sister had to fan the flies while I healed up. They put some evil smelling salve on it, and the flap healed over.
Couple years later, I hit her in the head with a metal shoe tree. Yup, she’s got one.
I found out that no matter how long the rope, the pendulum would swing the same amount of time. Threw a rope over the triplex in the backyard, hung a long window weight on it to verify my findings…. my little brother has one, too. Few stitches….
Lippy little sister didn’t want to hoe the garden. I pitched a rock over my shoulder from across the hedge….. she has one too. 2 stitches…
Everyone else saw a doctor…. I got treated by a rancher with livestock balm….
DAMNit, guy! That hurts just to look at