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