On 1/06/12 2:04 PM, "Ed Bell" <neanderman@f...> wrote:

> This happens to me all the time.  No, not blood dripping down the
> forehead, but finding myself bleeding from some cut of unknown origin.
> I think, sometimes, that part of the pain reaction is visual in nature.
> Short way of saying "It didn't hurt until I saw the blood gushing..."

Ed

I know the feeling. I was laying a new floor in the hallway of an old house.
I had taken the skirting boards and architraves off, and would refit them
after the floor is laid.

Nailing the floor down, I was working in front of the doorway to a bedroom.
Next thing I notice is a large, and getting larger patch of blood on the
newly laid pine floor. Like an almost empty can of paint spilt on carpet, a
little blood in the wrong place goes a long way. Blood was running down my
arm from my elbow where I discovered a long and deep clean cut. That's when
it started hurting.

It took quite a while to work out what had cut me. Where I had removed the
architrave from the door jamb, a razor sharp edge of generations of paint
was sticking out off the door jamb by 7 or 8 mm. I'd nudged this with my
elbow. It was such a clean cut, it was painless at the time.

Very hard to remove a blood stain from Pine. Very hard to keep working when
you have a wound that keeps opening up on an elbow.

Mick Dowling
Melbourne
Member, Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia Inc.

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