It’s just a flesh wound

Tips for new wounds and scars

A small stream of obscenities flowed from my mouth as I felt the sudden jarring of my head against an unseen metal shelf that was sticking out of the wall in the narrow hallway. It was the same color as the wall. I never saw it. As they say, and as most of us have experienced: head wounds really bleed.

Red, dripping, soon sticky, and bizarrely smell…