Bloody Baron

[ciroccoj]

It's really very interesting, sitting eating tacos next to a doctor who's bleeding like a stuck pig. He can tell you (and your kids) all sorts of things about blood vessels and pain control and stuff like that. And not be terribly bothered by the fact that he's BLEEDING through BANDAGES, PAPER TOWELS and DISHCLOTHS.

Should've taken a picture of it. It was impressive. As was the size of the piece of finger he sliced off.

And now he's dealing with the bleeding again. "Guess I shouldn't have taken that aspirin yesterday," he says.

Welcome to my life. All shits'n'giggles, all the time.




Edit: And he adds "Ah! We're saved! We've got fingertip band-aids!"

This is probably not as funny to somebody who hasn't seen the size of the band-aids and the size of the puddle of blood at his place at the table.

Later Edits: So at one point, after a little discussion on how many hit points of damage this is, and after pointing out that this is what people mean when they say, "It's just a flesh wound," he looks at me and says, "What? You've bled way more than this! It's not like it's a fibroid!"

Which, those of you who knew me when I was whisked through Emerg, admitted to Obs/Gyne at 3AM, got ~10 units of saline and 4 of packed red blood cells and enough hormones to knock out a couple of menopausal elephants will agree with me on this, is a pretty good point ;)

Comments

[jenniferjames.livejournal.com]

!!!

Are you saying he cut off the tip of his finger and then sat down to have tacos?

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Pretty much, yeah. It wasn't a life-threatening slice or anything, but it was a little 3/8"sq. chunk of flesh, sitting there in the middle of our lettuce, and he just went off, dealt with it, and came back down to eat while his finger bled and bled and bled. The children were very impressed.

[ladystarstruck.livejournal.com]

Isn't impressing children the sole reason we do these things? Or wait, maybe it's just the impressing other males...

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Isn't impressing children the sole reason we do these things? Or wait, maybe it's just the impressing other males...
Hee - yeah, and when the children are also other males, that's a double incentive, isn't it?

[jessebee.livejournal.com]

::WINCE:: Urck. I think my espoused would have got the bleeding stopped before coming back. Then again, maybe not. ;-)