Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 07, 2024

Of all the stupid things to miss.

Honestly

For some kids skinned knees and bruised legs are just part their identity and makeup for a certain part of their life.

‘Cause it’s already healed? Or ’cause she skinned both of them?

We all had a bit of Wolverine’s healing factor back then.

I don’t remember healing quite that qickly

I miss quick healing from anything, cuts, colds, pulled muscles. The older I get the longer they linger.

You get the best knee scabs when you’re a kid.

I’m with Dr. Spaetzle.

As I recall the ‘scratch and dent’ routine of my early years – minor scratches were ignored. Large area scrapes – soap and water and left to heal. Minor bleeding – soap and water, Mercurochrome or iodine. Shallow cut – all the above and a bandaid. Serious cut – as above but large bandage or gauze and tape. Anything worse – doc visit.

In the 30’-40’s, we couldn’t afford to run to doc for everything and we were encouraged to ‘stand up’ and let nature take its course, whenever possible. We were told to ‘handle it’ and go on about whatever mischief that caused it.

Was good training for a lot of what has since followed.

That must have been quite a lunch.

At the age of 63, if I fall and skin my knee, the skinned knee will be the lesser of my issues from the fall. The next day, all the aches and pains from the fall will make themselves readily apparent and stick around for a few days…and I truly think the skinned knee will heal faster than the aches and pains working their way through my body.

If you didn’t lose skin, you didn’t “skin” your knee.

Ha! True! Like when a pulled muscle didn’t take 2 months to heal!

There was about a five year period I’m guessing when one or both of my knees were always scabbed over. I don’t miss that but I certainly miss that time.

If that happened in todays world reporting it would have then required an incident report and a doctor visit and then they would close the playground until it had been rebuilt to prevent any future kid from getting a skinned knee. Not to mention the parents would sue the school board.

And don’t lets even START about healing surgery at our ages. One inch incision. 7+weeks ago. Still needs constant care and attention (It is getting better… but .s.o. .s.l.o.w.l.y!)

I was like that as a child. Constantly had skinned knees.

My wife the other day was walking in her garden. She stepped on some uneven ground, fell, and broke her ankle.