Then I started sewing. (WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES COMING!!). Only, I now realize, I was using some poor sewing technique on a very powerful machine. This happened:
I called dear Mr. Cool, and he raced to pick up wee Cool and myself. We headed to the ER--my first visit for myself in almost 22 years. They took an x-ray:
My bone had actually broken the needle, primarily because of its hollow tip. Very delicately, they numbed my finger and removed the two foreign bodies--the two pieces of needle and the thread. It all came out. A new tetanus shot and some antibiotics later, I returned to the scene of the crime.
The next morning, I replaced the needle and finished three of the five bags I had been planning to make.
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I still have three needle fragments embedded in my foot from a childhood incident where I stepped on a needle in the carpet. We thought we got it all out and that the otherpieces were simply lost in the carpet. I broke my foot in high school, and the radiology tech wondered if ihad had surgery on that foot. I said "no, why?" Nd he showed me the x-ray with three needle pieces inside my bones. Apparently, the pieces just laid down along the bones and the ones grew around them.. I don't have those X-rays anymore, it i have one from another broken-foot incident that clearly shows the needle fragments too.
I hope you have a speedy recovery.
Oh, my goodness!
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