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+title: X-ray
+genre: prose
+
+id: x-ray
+toc: "X-ray"
+
+project:
+    title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
+    class: paul
+    order: 30
+    next:
+    - title: Wallpaper
+      link: wallpaper
+    - title: Yellow
+      link: yellow
+    prev:
+    - title: Yellow
+      link: yellow
+    - title: Writing
+      link: writing
+...
+
+While chopping a tree in the woods with his hatchet (a Christmas gift from his mother) a bird he'd never heard before cried out.
+He jerked his head up and to the right as the hatchet fell down and to the left.
+It cut deep into the back of his left hand.
+A low thud didn't echo in the forest because all the needles and snow absorbed ~~sound well~~ the sound.
+
+When he got back to the house his hand wrapped in the end of his shirt he still felt no pain.
+He called for his mother and found her watching TV in the main room.
+He stayed in the kitchen not wanting to get blood on the carpet.
+She turned around cigarette dangling from her open mouth said "Oh god what happened."
+
+She drove him to the hospital in the car.
+[The radio stayed off the entire way.][]
+Paul wanted to turn it on but ~~he didn't want~~ the desire not to annoy his mother was stronger.
+They drove in silence.
+
+At the hospital after the X-rays and stitching and pain medication prescription the doctor said "You got lucky, son.
+If that axe had hit a half-inch lower you'd [have lost your hand][].
+You won't get full mobility back because we had to tie the tendons, but with therapy you should be able to work it pretty well."
+
+On the drive back home all he could think was that he was glad he didn't hit his writing hand.
+
+[The radio stayed off the entire way.]: worse-looking-over.html
+[have lost your hand]: roughgloves.html