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AV & Dm inter. M/M Sulk.
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it was just like a box of matches, he said I made a snoot and they moved me
out of there, that's what they done, they wired that all up and they come to
me when I come out of ether and they come to my bed and they said, now you got
one chance out of a hundred, they said, no movin' around with it or anything,
hold it in that position

MS: You had your hand wired

JS: Afterwards I don't know how many days later on, they called doctors from Philadelphia
in to show the work they done they took x-rays how it was knittin' and all and they
said they did a good job they were that proud of that job

DM: Well look how your arm works now

JS: Yeh I worked in the mines minin' after I did it

DM: That's great

JS: And this leg was broken and pulled out of one of the sockets and they thought
the doctor told me, he said we don't know, the break that will heal up but
pull out of the socket how that will mesh in back, if that gets in right, it
will be alright but if that dont get in there right you'll have a hell of a time
you might have trouble it might start festerin' or something

DM: You are a healer

JS: This one was [?] broke you can ask her

DM: I'm sure she had to sweat it out with you a couple times

JS: When the doctor told me, the company doctor told me, he said that's just a bruise
and the blood clogged there and it's sore, well the dam bugger he raised in this
town with me, you know and I thought well friends and all he had him and his
daddy I thought well he's tellin' me the right thing, he give me a pink slip to
go back to work and I said, do you think so, and he said in a day or two that
will work that blood loose and it will be alright, I worked the week out, second
week, well I rested Saturday and Sunday, I felt pretty good because I wasn't