{"id":241,"date":"2007-03-26T18:27:57","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T01:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/26\/241\/"},"modified":"2007-03-27T19:55:47","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T02:55:47","slug":"241","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/26\/241\/","title":{"rendered":"Verna&#8217;s Boo Boo &#8212; Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image240\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/palm-thorns1.jpg\" alt=\"palm-thorns1.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/>We received an email from <a href=\"http:\/\/coconutcommando.blogspot.com\/\">Coconut Commando<\/a> who is currently enjoying an extended, (extended again) all inclusive vacation package to Iraq. CC responded to the article <a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/23\/vernas-boo-boo\/\">Verna&#8217;s Boo Boo<\/a> with this advice for gardening apparel when working around thorny vegetation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve had the same experience with the same palm type as well as Sagal  Palms and Elephant Grass. If you&#8217;re dealing with these, a denim jacket plus a BDU top seems to work enough to stop the ripping of flesh but you still get the puncture. Do they know Verna by her first name at the ER?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, Verna and another woman needed sutures that day. The nurses didn&#8217;t refer to them by their names but as &#8220;<strong>palm tree<\/strong>&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>dog bite<\/strong>,&#8221; respectively. That made us laugh. <\/p>\n<p>The stitches come out tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: Latest healing progress &#8211; before and after stitches (don&#8217;t look if stitches creep you out).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image242\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/0326-stitch.jpg\" alt=\"0326-stitch.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image243\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/0327-nostitch.jpg\" alt=\"0327-nostitch.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We received an email from Coconut Commando who is currently enjoying an extended, (extended again) all inclusive vacation package to Iraq. CC responded to the article&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","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=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}