Ouch!

WU reader Holly gave us a heads-up about her son's recent pencil-through-the-foot incident. I guess she knows we couldn't resist something that gruesome. There are even more impaled-foot pics on her blog. She writes:

I sat there holding his foot in my hand, and noticed there was NO BLOOD... not even a drop coming out of either of the holes...and I wasn't prepared to open up an artery on the playroom floor. So I realized I would just have to calm him (and myself) down and wait for the EMTs to arrive. I could hear my hubby on the phone downstairs with 911 yelling up to me "Don't pull it out! Don't pull it out!" I said, "Okay...I'm not going to... get the camera".

Happily the pencil was safely removed, and it seems there's no permanent damage

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Posted By: Alex - Wed Aug 27, 2008
Category: Body Modifications

Comments

Most puncture wounds DON'T bleed when the object is still in place...after all, the hole is being blocked by the object.

Posted by Maegan on 08/27/08 at 11:18 PM

This puts the time I stepped on a d4, barefoot, to shame.

Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 08/28/08 at 10:49 AM

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