I was riding my bike to work in the rain, when I was crossing the bridge it was slick and my knee went right into the grates.
I got to work, wrapped it with a clean rag, and opened up shop. After an hour or so, once I was finished, I checked and the blood had soaked through. Hmm, that doesn’t seem good.
I went on my smoke break and was chatting with a courier about it, worrying if my bike was damaged. He took one look at my knee and said, “fuck your shitty ass bike, you need to go to a hospital!”
So I went and got my first and only stitches. The nurse got annoyed with me because I was very interested in the whole process and probably was all up in her space. I now have two little arrows on me knee pointing 🆙
Feb 24, 2025
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Working on a farm at maybe 16? Don’t think I was even driving yet. It was Christmas season so that meant a lot of carrying trees around and sawing off the ends of stumps so that the trees would start absorbing water again. This stupid lady and her granddaughter were being kinda picky about their tree and wanted some of the knots cut off so I was doing so. Did I mention that it was raining? Because it was also raining that day. Being someone at least as stupid as the lady, I decided to cut *towards* my hand. The saw which could barely handle the tree had no problem skipping off the trunk right into my knuckle. So clutching the now sliced open knuckle with the now shredded rubber glove hanging off of it, I walked back to the break room, never talking to that lady again.
At the ER they tried shooting some novocaine in with a syringe. I will never forget the visual of it going in one side of the cut and shooting out the other side. I got a couple stitches and now have permanent reminder of which direction to hold my cutting instruments.
Feb 24, 2025
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mom was using a machete to clear the tall weeds in our yard at our new house in Thailand. i walked up behind her to ask a question and got caught in her backswing. i clutched my elbow and saw a dark red streak go down my arm. it was so deep you could see ligaments and fat tissue. we had to drive 45 mins into town to get stitches and tetanus shot but at least i got out of yard work for the day. lucius is so jealous of this scar lmao
i also have a scar on my leg from a lipoma (benign fat tumor) that needed removal in high school. and a huge scar from surgery to repair my broken collarbone from the seatbelt that saved me from dying in a horrible accident in college. i have metal plates and screws holding me together. and a few scars on my hands and wrists from the broken windshield glass.
Feb 24, 2025
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i fell down the other day and i grazed my knee. i kind of like it.
it reminds me of all the times i did it as a kid, when my body was built to fight the germs. it would just end up being that ugly scab i showed off in sports class at school.
it’d itch and i‘d be told that was a good sign, that it was healing under this layer of chaos. i feel like there is some philosophy you could add to that, but i dunno. i just hope it doesn’t get infected
Jan 17, 2025
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This has become the norm and every day I grow more disturbed. I understand if somebody is behaving in a harmful way, that is good to document and put out there. But as a whole, it seems, we have become so comfortable with recording people just living their lives. I saw a video of a guy working and the caption of the video was that he was so hot, we needed to find him!!! Why are you providing the Internet with his face and location instead of just going up to talk to him? I saw another of two people on the subway, seemingly a couple, having a very emotional moment. How would you feel if you open up an app and saw a video like that of yourself? I don’t like this level of sibling society surveillance. Why are you videoing an elderly person with sad music dubbed over it to gain likes? It is WEIRD. Don’t even get me started on videos of children. It is WEIRD to use a stranger without their consent to get some kind of fake validation. Get a life.
I don’t mean to come on here and share something so negative, I just don’t have anywhere else to put it and it’s gnawing at me.
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I’m curious what your brains are like
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