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Just grepped through the book and found the incident you mentioned, but there's nothing about Vaseline and hydrogen peroxide. Are you sure you didn't read about
by say__what__now 6y ago
Just grepped through the book and found the incident you mentioned, but there's nothing about Vaseline and hydrogen peroxide. Are you sure you didn't read about this in a different book? If so, any idea where?
So, it was several days before I realized how bad
things really were. My face was swollen to the size of
a pumpkin, badly charred from being blowtorched.
Ol' Stan Bear came in and sat down. He said, "Well,
Chuck, I've got good news and bad news. The good
news is that your lungs have not been permanently
damaged from inhaling flame and smoke, and your
eye looks normal. The bad news is I'm gonna have to
hurt you like you've never hurt before in your life to
keep you from being permanently disfigured. And
I'm gonna have to do it every four days."
I stayed in the hospital a month, and every four
days, Doc started from the middle of my face and
neck, scraping away the accumulated scab. It was a
new technique developed to avoid horrible crisscross
scars as the skin grew beneath the scabs. And it
worked beautifully. I have only a few scars on my
neck, but my face healed perfectly smooth. The pain,
though, was worse than any I have ever known.
- vga805 6y agoi love comments like this, another daily reminder why i love this site
- ncmncm 6y agoHey, they had that in Game of Thrones!
- sswaner 6y agoWow, this is cool. I must have read about this somewhere else, but attributed it to the book. I last read the book in the late 80's, and now I am really curious what other memories have shifted in my head over the years. As an adjacent comment mentions - this is why I love HN. Thanks for fact checking me and giving me a whole new list of things to ponder.