re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth

our regional hospital’s ER has a trauma room that has sliding doors instead of curtains like the other ER cubicles.

Blood still manages to pour out into the common area of the ER.

The human body holds an amazing volume of blood, most people can not comprehend how much.

I’ve told the story here of being accidentally shot in 1982. I was on the couch for no more than 3 or 4 minutes waiting for the ambulance. In that time, my punctured femoral artery soaked the couch and was leaving a huge puddle on the floor in spite of a makeshift tourniquet I had managed to apply. I eventually had to throw the couch away and put in new carpet.
Incidentally, I was perhaps angrier at the shooter for losing his composure and not helping than for shooting me in the first place.