An inch long cut on my head
necessitated a couple of staples to close it up. When it was time to have them removed I judged it would be a waste of my valuable time to go to the nurse so I set about doing it myself. Little did I know however that they were not normal staples of the common or garden stationery variety. I was unaware that they have a kind of hook that needs a special tool to remove them. So when I started pulling I thought it was just the congealed blood that was rendering it slightly sticky but as there are not many nerve endings in the scalp it wasn't particularly sore so I persevered. It was however bloody and ugly when I managed to pull out a lump of scalp the size of a butter bean and the doctor fairly ripped into me when I eventually went along to get the second one out professionally. The scar is still quite visible and unattractive on my baldy napper.
( Ramsay Tupper, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 14:14, Reply)