Medical Question For Story

Hi,

I guess I made the same mistakes as other new writers in being careless about wounds and healing processes in my stories, but I'd like to avoid it at least in the future.

Is anyone here who would be so kind to help me and whom I could send a question or a story part now and then?

Preferably I'd handle that via PM or email. My raw stuff is nothing I'd like to post on the board here

I would be really glad if one of you could help me.

Hi Nightwalker

You can contact me if you want. I can answer a lot of medical questions. You can PM me if you'd like. You can also use the forum contact link at the bottom of the page if you want.

Andrew Jackson was shot near his heart in a duel and carried the bullet for life, but it isn't something you would want to do to one of the boys. And, of course, Jackson was unusually tough. As a teen, he walked home, barefoot in the snow with smallpox, after his release from a British prisoner of war camp. He had chronic infections from his dueling injuries and suffered continual ill health as a result. He drained the infection in his arm from another dueling injury, over the years, even while president. The infections eventually killed him.

I'm with Penski- I prefer a grazing wound. And she is right about internal wounds to the chest and stomach, most people would die within days from such a wound; they were almost invariably fatal and very painful.

I remember your advice, Penski, sometimes a story just calls for something different. ;-)

I'll contact you within the next days, BeeJay, there's just a little bit of real life to get rid of.

Thank you very much to both of you.