On February 29, I whacked my shin on a truck’s tow-bar, making a deep dent but drawing almost no blood. Today, six weeks later, the scab came off. (The dent is still there.) I wonder, did the wound heal more slowly because of the relative scarcity of blood on the front of my shin? (Russell says yes.)
November: The spot is still discolored.
September 2005: Guess it’s permanent: the first of my scars to be so precisely dated for posterity.