When I was 11, I was filling a water balloon from the deck of my parents pool, and fell in catching my leg on the deck. I ended up ripping a 8 1/2 inch hole in my leg and leaving the piece of leg floating in the pool while I went for a nice ambulance ride. But that wasn't the most painful part. The most painful part was burning from the Xylecane that they used to numb my leg. Also the last 10 stitches hurt a lot as well since the Xylecane had worn off, and I could feel the threaded needles going in and out of my skin. (this happened 16 years ago, and I still have no feeling in most of my shin where the "meat" for lack of a better term from my leg is missing). I also remember the conversation with the ER doc, about the possibility of them not being able to close my leg, and having to undergo an amputation. Lucky for me the doc was able to avoid that extreme.
This injury may not be as bad as some of the things that have happened to those here, but it's my earliest memory of intese pain that I have.
This injury may not be as bad as some of the things that have happened to those here, but it's my earliest memory of intese pain that I have.
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