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the blade hovered above his swollen toe. finally he gathered enough courage and quickly moved the knife downward. the skin only offered slight resistance, then gave way to the blade. the hiss of escaping gas startled him. reflex quickly retracted the blade. almost immediately, the hissing stopped and his toe looked deflated. the gas had given the toe form, now it had none.
the pain was gone.
he pinched the empty toe between his finger and thumb feeling for something, any thing, maybe bone but there was nothing. he tried to look into the hole but it was too small. he cut the hole larger, there was no blood. a few off white pebbles fell out of the hole and rolled a few inches across the floor. he assumed the pebbles were once bone.
curiosity over ruled common sense and he made an incision further up his foot where it still had form and volume. small soft shapes and a thick mucus pushed out of the incision. he pulled a noodle like form from the hole and examined it. it was warm, soft, and yellow. it greatly resembled macaroni and cheese, except it smelled very bad.
realization that the self surgery may not have been the right thing to do, he quickly packed the noodle back into the incision and closed the hole with a bandage. he gathered the pebbles and put them back inside the empty toe. he inserted a straw into the hole and re-inflated the toe and sealed it with super glue.
tomorrow he would call a doctor.
Posted by griff at February 10, 2003 10:08 AM