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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: X-ray | ||
3 | genre: prose | ||
4 | |||
5 | project: | ||
6 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
7 | css: paul | ||
8 | order: 30 | ||
9 | next: | ||
10 | - title: Wallpaper | ||
11 | link: wallpaper | ||
12 | - title: Yellow | ||
13 | link: yellow | ||
14 | previous: | ||
15 | - title: Yellow | ||
16 | link: yellow | ||
17 | - title: Writing | ||
18 | link: writing | ||
19 | ... | ||
20 | |||
21 | While chopping a tree in the woods with his hatchet (a Christmas gift from his | ||
22 | mother) a bird he'd never heard before cried out. He jerked his head up and | ||
23 | to the right as the hatchet fell down and to the left. It cut deep into the | ||
24 | back of his left hand. A low thud didn't echo in the forest because all the | ||
25 | needles and snow absorbed ~~sound well~~ the sound. | ||
26 | |||
27 | When he got back to the house his hand wrapped in the end of his shirt he | ||
28 | still felt no pain. He called for his mother and found her watching TV in the | ||
29 | main room. He stayed in the kitchen not wanting to get blood on the carpet. | ||
30 | She turned around cigarette dangling from her open mouth said "Oh god what | ||
31 | happened." | ||
32 | |||
33 | She drove him to the hospital in the car. The radio stayed off the entire | ||
34 | way. Paul wanted to turn it on but ~~he didn't want~~ the desire not to annoy | ||
35 | his mother was stronger. They drove in silence. | ||
36 | |||
37 | At the hospital after the X-rays and stitching and pain medication | ||
38 | prescription the doctor said "You got lucky, son. If that axe had hit a | ||
39 | half-inch lower you'd have lost your hand. You won't get full mobility back | ||
40 | because we had to tie the tendons, but with therapy you should be able to work | ||
41 | it pretty well." | ||
42 | |||
43 | On the drive back home all he could think was that he was glad he didn't hit | ||
44 | his writing hand. | ||