Thanks to Johnny Bond for the special cloud background of this photo. Johnny resides in Northern California and is a certified genius.
Speaking of synchronicity.... In the last two days I came across two cases of people being scalped, or partially scalped.
The first was a strange case where some guy was trying to style his girlfriends hair using a power drill. He said he saw the technique on television and thought he would try it out. Her hair was rapidly wrapped around the drill bit and her scalp was partially removed from her head.
Frankly, I do not know which one of the two people involved was more to blame for this horrible accident: the guy for suggesting such a dangerous procedure or his girlfriend for going along with this idea.
The other case was some lady who was working and had an industrial accident where her hair got caught in some machinery and the result was a complete scalping. Fortunately the plastic surgeon was able to reattach the scalp. Unfortunately the blood supply was greatly impaired. But fortunately the surgeon was able to use leeches to reestablish the blood supply. Small slits were made in her scalp in the areas where blood had dried in the veins and the blood was not circulating well. Then small leeches were allowed to attach themselves to the scalp at these tiny cuts. Since the leeches had not been fed in days, they were famished and sucked out a lot of blood. And then when they had engorged themselves, they dropped off.
Now leeches have some special enzymes in their saliva to keep the blood flowing so they can feed. And the good news is that after they drop off, these enzymes keep the blood oozing out for about 8 more hours.... thus reestablishing circulation.
Well, we certainly have come a long way since the dark ages haven't we? The lady's scalp was saved by the leeching method. All I can say is that I am so glad I did not live 100 years ago when I could be scalped by American Indians!
Hopefully you won't need leeches.
David
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