Tuesday, 17 March 2009

Dressing and carpet

What have dressings and carpets got in common?

They both cover something you don't want to see.

A lot of things in the skiver's household are swept under the carpet, or covered in dressings.

Dressings cover wounds. If you remove the dressing too soon you might make the wound worse. If you don't remove it you don't know whether it has healed. Sometimes you know a wound will take a very, very long time to heal. Sometimes even when the wound is healed, a scar will remain. It hurts when you press on the scar.

I admit that I'm not brave enough to remove the dressing to see how bad the wound is. I am too afraid to depart from the status quo. And it's not somebody else's wound.

How long will a piece of dressing last?

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