Personal Injuries (Was Re: [UA] Secret Wound Point system)

[Kevin Mowery]

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From: Twist0059 at aol.com <Twist0059 at aol.com>
To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 11:49 PM
Subject: Re: Personal Injuries (Was Re: [UA] Secret Wound Point system)


>> >I now invite other list members to contribute their own personal
injuries
>> for
>>  >use in UA.
>
>When I was 13 I tried to shoot a knife into a tree with a slingshot.
>(<sigh>)  Naturally, the knife was too heavy and I ended up shooting it
down
>into my hand.  The blade sunk into the area between my thumb and
forefinger,
>just going through enough to see the little gleaming point come out on the
>palm.  Pulling it out felt like someone scraping their nails down a
>chalkboard, if that makes sense.  :-)

    It does indeed.

    Incidentally, for anyone who is interested, getting your teeth drilled
without anaesthetic is an interesting sensation.  (Yes, I have needle
issues, why do you ask?)  There are tiny vibrations that radiate outward
from the drill, but they're not really painful.  The actual cutting away of
the tooth is slightly painful, but more accurately it's a sensation that
just doesn't compare to other sensations.  There's no way to say, oh, having
your living tooth carved by a swiftly-spinning drill feels just like this
other thing, because it doesn't.  So it registers as pain.  There's also
some heat involved, but it's not unbearable, more of a pinpoint warmness.
The pain comes when the drill hits a nerve.  A brief touch is just a flash
of pain, either hot or cold, your choice.  If you really think about it,
it's a kind of white-hot chill, except that the phrase makes no sense.
    I've never had the dentist grind away at the nerve, fortunately.

Kevin Mowery________________profbobo at io.com
"'Jaws' is the warmest, tenderest, lovingest movie of
the year.  I give it four coconuts."               --Idi Amin




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