Lucky?

That's right, what you are looking at is a 4 inch wire sticking through my ear.

We still have the flags up in our yard marking our property line so we know how much of the yard is ours to mow. Well today, I must have accidentally hit one of those flags with the blade of the mower. Because I heard a loud noise and then felt like my ear was on fire. I reached up to feel, and could not believe there was a wire in it! I ran into the house where I completely freaked out. Went to the County health office where they had the nerve to tell me they do not take walk in patients (really, even if they have a foreign object sticking out of their head!).
After I finally talked to Stew, I came back home for his evaluation. He looked at it and seriously opened the tool box. I don't think so! Maybe if he would have been here when it first happened, because it was a little numb at that point, but by then, it was throbbing. Plus, I knew I was way behind on my tetanus shot. We went to the doctors office and after everyone there had a good look, they numbed it up and pulled it right out. I got a tetanus shot and antibiotics. The consensus at the doctors office was that I was very lucky because if it had been one inch over, it could have gone into my eye. There is even a little scratch on my cheek right by my eye. Now I think was unlucky for it happening in the first place! Guess I was a little "glass half empty" today.