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Plucketeer

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33. Yeah, they wanted to send me to a local emergency room.

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 04:45 PM

Mar 2016

By then - although almost completely deaf at that point - I got the gist of what they were saying. She was afraid of causing me more pain AND overlooking some of the pellet pieces (there's still some that I can see!). I just wanted to get the chunks and bits out before scabs started to form. The whole underside of my right forearm was perforated.
Anyway, I sat there, plucking the stuff outta me and she kept rinsing with peroxide. I lived - got my hearing back after several weeks. BTW, the plane fared almost as badly as I did. It got damaged by the big nut I'd been screwing on. And a subsequent investigation as to why it ever happened was inconclusive. I confess I did pucker up a bit the next time I had to do that task!

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