Suicide Forest
“Then Mel and Nina got busy tending to John Scott’s variety of superficial wounds, which were mostly on his face, arms, and torso.
Since there was no water or whiskey to clean the cuts with, they mostly applied pressure with yet another T-shirt to stop the bleeding. Bruises invisible before now started to appear all over his body. His right biceps and shoulder had turned a yellowish-brown, while a large purplish area had appeared on his right thigh, where his Calvin Klein boxer shorts ended. I k...ept an eye on his left leg below the fracture, making sure it didn’t become numb, cold, or pale, which might indicate a severed nerve or blood vessel. So far so good, it seemed, as I could distinguish nothing but a slight discoloration and puffiness.
He was damn lucky, I thought, to have fallen from the height he had and survived with only a broken leg, as bad as the break was. Nevertheless, he was far from home free. The risk of infection was possible during any open fracture, especially one that occurred in the wild where there were no proper disinfectants or antibiotics.MoreLess
Since there was no water or whiskey to clean the cuts with, they mostly applied pressure with yet another T-shirt to stop the bleeding. Bruises invisible before now started to appear all over his body. His right biceps and shoulder had turned a yellowish-brown, while a large purplish area had appeared on his right thigh, where his Calvin Klein boxer shorts ended. I k...ept an eye on his left leg below the fracture, making sure it didn’t become numb, cold, or pale, which might indicate a severed nerve or blood vessel. So far so good, it seemed, as I could distinguish nothing but a slight discoloration and puffiness.
He was damn lucky, I thought, to have fallen from the height he had and survived with only a broken leg, as bad as the break was. Nevertheless, he was far from home free. The risk of infection was possible during any open fracture, especially one that occurred in the wild where there were no proper disinfectants or antibiotics.MoreLess
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