19 STITCHES A FOOT

 
19 STITCHES A FOOT SOUNDS LIKE A MATHEMATICAL STATEMENT. INSTEAD IT IS A STATEMENT THAT A DOCTOR MADE TO A VERY DEAR FAMILY MEMBER.

PERHAPS IF THIS WERE A STORY BOOK.
THE TITLE COULD READ:
" THE CREEK THAT LEADS TO THE HOSPITAL".

ONCE UPON A TIME A YOUNG WOMAN WENT TO THE STORE TO BUY  A VERY SPECIAL PAIR OF "CREEK SHOES". SHE FOUND THE PERFECT PAIR. THE COLOR PINK WITH A STRING TIGHTENING TAB. PERFECT SHE
THOUGHT , FOR THE SHOES WOULD NOT COME OFF WHILE WALKING ON THE ROCKY CREEK BED.
SO ON THAT WARM SUNNY DAY,OFF SHE WENT WITH HER BEAU. A WARM DAY IN JULY TO  ENJOY THE PERFECT LITTLE STREAM WITH THE RUNNING WHITE  WATER RAPIDS.
THEY HAD BEEN THERE BEFORE AND TRAVELED   DOWN ON THE WATER RAPIDS ON THEIR BELLIES. THIS TIME THEY HAD  LITTLE SURF BOARDS TO USE. LOOKING BACK, A BAD DECISION WAS MADE THAT DAY TO GO FURTHER UP THE STREAM. UP STREAM TO WHERE THE WATER SEEMED DEEPER AND FASTER. UNKNOWN TERRITORY,A SPOT THEY DID NOT CAREFULLY INSPECT. IF THEY HAD, THE AREA UNDERNEATH THE WATER WOULD HAVE WARNED THEM OF DANGER.
THE SPOT THEY CHOSE WAS JUST WHAT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR.  A NICE DISTANCE TO TRAVEL DOWN STREAM WITH  A FAST MOVING WATER RAPIDS. IT WAS DEEP ENOUGH FOR THEIR SURF BOARDS TO CARRY THEM SWIFTLY ON THE WATER WITHOUT TOUCHING THE STREAM ROCK BOTTOM BED. WHAT MORE COULD THEY HAVE ASKED FOR ON A WARM JULY DAY.
HE WENT FIRST AND THEN SHE WENT NEXT. SHE HAD TRAVELED ONLY A SHORT A DISTANCE, WHEN SOMETHING HELD HER BACK. WATER WAS RUSHING IN HER FACE MAKING IT DIFFICULT  FOR HER TO BREATHE OR CALL FOR HELP.  SHE KNEW SHE COULD NOT MOVE. SHE STOPPED STRUGGLING   TO FREE HERSELF. BECAUSE NOW A PAINFUL SENSATION WAS FELT IN HER FOOT.
HE HAD SEEN HER IN ONE SPOT AND FELT SOMETHING WAS  WRONG. BEFORE HE COULD MOVE, HE HEARD HER CALL FOR HELP.  HE PUSHED WITH ALL HIS MIGHT FIGHTING THE WATER THAT ONCE TOOK HIM TRAVELING FAST DOWN STREAM.




HE REACHED IN THE WATER AND FREED HER FOOT. THE STRING TAB ON THE CREEK SHOES HAD CAUGHT ON SOMETHING DOWN BELOW IN THE STREAM BED.IT WAS APPARENT THE FOOT WAS HURT BADLY FOR THE BLOODY WATER STARTED TO SURFACE AND RUN DOWN STREAM.QUICK THINKING ON THEIR PART ,THE DOCTOR WOULD LATER STATE, TO WRAP THE FOOT WITH A SHIRT THAT SHE WORE.
SHE COULD NOT WALK IN THE WATER WITH THE SHIRT BANDAGED FOOT. SO HE PICKED HER UP TO CARRY HER DOWN STREAM TO WHERE THEIR  CAR WAS.
SHE FOUGHT HER FEAR OF BEING DROPPED AND HE FOUGHT HIS FEAR THAT HE COULD NOT 

 CARRY HER TO SAFETY.
ALAS, THROUGH THE STRUGGLE WALKING OVER THE STREAM BED MADE OF ROCKS AND THE POWERFUL RUSHING WATER, THEY ARRIVED AT THE SPOT. THEIR JOY TURNED TO CONCERN. HOW WOULD THEY WALK UP THE STEEP SLOPE TO THE CAR. HE COULD NOT CARRY HER UP THE STEEP GRADE. SHE FELT IF HE HELPED HER, SHE COULD WALK UP THE STEEP GRADE TO REACH THE TOP WHERE THEIR CAR WAS.
THE STORY ENDS AS THE TITLE SAYS 19 STITCHES ON TOP OF THE FOOT. THE DOCTOR SAID HAD THE OBJECT CUT HER IN ANY OTHER PLACE, SHE WOULD HAVE GONE TO SURGERY.
MONTHS LATER ,THEY WOULD RETURN TO THE SPOT
OF THE ACCIDENT. THE OBJECT WAS NOT A ROCK THAT THE STRING ON THE CREEK SHOE GOT CAUGHT ON. IT WAS A RUSTED METAL OBJECT. BY PLACING THEIR FACES IN THE WATER , THEY WERE ABLE TO CLEARLY SEE WHAT IT WAS.  IT LOOKED LIKE A LARGE METAL BLADE. NEEDLESS TO SAY LOOKING AT WHAT THE  STRING FROM THE CREEK SHOES CAUGHT ON SHOOK THEIR VERY SOULS. FOR THE STORY MAY NOT HAVE ENDED THE WAY IT DID.
ONE THING THAT  THEY  SHARED WITH ME WAS THAT BY STAYING CALM THROUGH IT ALL ALONG WITH PRAYER. THEY FEEL THAT  IS WHAT HELPED THEM. THEY ALSO STATED THAT EVERY PERSON IN THAT HOSPITAL THAT DAY WENT OUT OF THEIR WAY TO HELP FROM THE NURSE TO THE SECURITY GUARD.  IT WAS LIKE EVERY PERSON HEARD THEIR PRAYERS AND ANSWEREDTHEM.
DIVINE INTERVENTION HAD TO BE WITH THEM THAT DAY.

ALTHOUGH THIS IS NO AESOP'S FABLE. THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS THE OBJECT WITH A STRING THAT HAS A TAB TO SECURE IT TIGHT CAN BECOME YOUR ENEMY AS THE ABOVE TRUE STORY PROVED.
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