Foreign Object

Hospital Seating Area 

Metal rail with wrought iron grass and cattails.

Hello Ladies,

This hospital visit, because of a swelling in Mr. S.'s foot, turned into a puzzling situation.  No matter what the treatment, it just would not heal and actually got worse.

Since it was initially a strep infection, one of the children said he thought strep was only a throat infection. The other one replied,  "Maybe he injured his foot on his toothbrush."

Finally, in a surgical procedure to remove the swollen area, the doctor found a piece of wood an inch long and removed it.

So our rellies, with their dried out humor are sending songs to cheer him up:

Wood you like to swing on a star.

Wooden it be lovely 

At least you don't have a wooden heart.
They are telling him to stay away from campfires.

If this heals as expected, Mr. S. Will be dismissed from his gilded cage in two days.

He had no recollection of the wood getting there and thinks it was planted there by an alien as we drove through Area 51 in October. He reads about people that find foreign objects like transistors, under their skin.

Because all I have left to talk about is the quirks of the employees, I'm glad he is being dismissed before he gets time to tell the alien story again. It draws too many visitors.

Mr. S. says he is glad to be out of the woods.