A friend of mine fell while doing laundry and broke her foot. She got a cast put on it, and continued to take daily showers, covering the cast with plastic and taping it up tight to keep it from getting wet. After almost a week, her husband commented on the smell emanating from her footal area. She knew it was starting to get stinky, but had an appointment the following day to have the cast looked at, so she ignored his incessant gagging.
The next day, she presented herself at the hospital. The doctor (or whoever it was) could smell what was now a full-on stench and removed the cast. Water from the daily showers had made their way into the cast, and the skin on the bottom of her foot was white and moist. The only alternative was to leave the cast off and let her foot air out, and use an inflatable cast from then on so she could shower without causing gangrene.
When I heard about this, I felt the need to send along a supportive text:
"Hey: Something stinky is wafting in from Cardigan. Thank fuck you didn't break your bird!"
See? It can always be worse...
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