{"id":237,"date":"2007-03-23T12:13:35","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T19:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/23\/vernas-boo-boo\/"},"modified":"2007-03-23T12:36:44","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T19:36:44","slug":"vernas-boo-boo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/23\/vernas-boo-boo\/","title":{"rendered":"Verna&#8217;s Boo Boo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image233\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/palm-thorns.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"palm-thorns.jpg\" class=\"left\" \/>Verna wanted to make sure that people are warned about the potential danger of the Mexican Fan Palm Tree&#8217;s thorns. Last Saturday, she brushed past a pruned frond stem and ripped her forearm. There was obviously not going to be a home-remedy first-aid resolution to the injury, so we went to the emergency room to get some help. They stitched it up and sent us home several hours later.<\/p>\n<p>A full-sized view of the offending frond stub and photos of all the gory details appear below when you click on &#8220;Continue reading . . .&#8221; &#8212; <strong>Please don&#8217;t look if blood and stitches are going to creep you out<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThis is a close-up of the offending frond:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image233\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/palm-thorns.jpg\" alt=\"palm-thorns.jpg\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Verna took this picture after she cleaned out the wound:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image234\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/new-trauma.jpg\" alt=\"new-trauma.jpg\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Later that afternoon after the stitches were in:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image235\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/0317-stitch.jpg\" alt=\"0317-stitch.jpg\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The next day it looked much better:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image236\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/0318-stitch.jpg\" alt=\"0318-stitch.jpg\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re scheduled to have the stitches taken out next Tuesday, so I&#8217;ll post another picture then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verna wanted to make sure that people are warned about the potential danger of the Mexican Fan Palm Tree&#8217;s thorns. Last Saturday, she brushed past a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}