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To: RJCogburn
Not Hep B. I've treated dozens of those.

Dynamite accidents resulting in bone fragments as shrapnel. Two rednecks were drinking beer and fishing with dynamite. One lit the fuse and held the dynamite too long. It blew up in his hand resulting in a traumatic amputation just below the elbow. Fragments of finger, hand and arm bone were blown into his eyes and chest and his buddy's back and side. I was digging bone fragments and fingernails out of both of them as long as three months later. This happened in the 70's so we had no blood tests for Hep B or C although I wouldn't have been surprised if either were already infected.

15 posted on 07/25/2002 6:15:25 AM PDT by CholeraJoe
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To: CholeraJoe
Oh, I misunderstood your earlier post. Your patients would be safer and maybe as happy noodling, a practice I just learned of..."a rural sport with a unique and colorful subculture." Do you know about it?

http://www.okienoodling.com
16 posted on 07/25/2002 7:16:35 AM PDT by RJCogburn
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