Listen folks, the real deal, first person account, eye witness of the aftermath and CARNAGE...This was an avulsion/partial amputation to be sure. It was dangling by the padded callous on the front of the right thumb, the bone and tissue was sheared through and stopped only because she was wearing a leather palmed glove, that is the part that didn't shear through, the part the leather thumb-pad covers. I think we have some good pics around here somewhere. Anyway, I imagine she is down playing this because she doesn't want you all worried...so don't worry she really is doing way better than guys I know that have had minor splinters, and scratched cornea, you'd think they were on fire or shattered some. I was surprised when I saw her thumb after her mild and understated description...besides the speed and completeness of her healing I am also amazed at how resilient her attitude is about it all. I see these other soldiers trying every way they can to amplify a scratch to get out of work and here Rachel is rushing to get back at it. for 2 weeks or so, I didn't tell her this by the way, you get it 1st, I thought that the bone didn't take and that the tissue had died distal to the wound because the skin had this gray waxy pallor, just like frostbitten or necrotic tissue gets. I had her soak it in peroxide several nights and finally this full thickness 1/8 deep flap of tissue, the whole thumb pad, peeled off to reveal the healthy baby skin underneath, (prints intact).
So there you go, just a scratch.
I am going to get us some chow right now...
Shams is arabic for Sun.
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I thought your clarification was going to state that Rachel has neither been on the surface of Mars nor the Moon. So how could she draw comparisons of the Iraqi desert to such?
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