Christopher Ellis tells of a construction worker who fell onto a 6-7 inch nail sticking upright. The nail pierced his boot and looked catastrophic, but when doctors removed it at the ER, it had passed between his toes with almost no damage.
The first construction worker, and this is true stories by the way, he jumped off a beam and landed on a long nail, like a 6 or 7-inch nail sticking upright. It pierced right through his boot, or it came right out the top of his boot. He saw it and went down in agonizing pain. They rush him off to the ER. They dope him up with opioids, painkillers, and then they go to remove his boot. All to find out that it missed. It missed his toe. It went between the webbing of his big toe and second toe and just pierced the boot. But he saw something that looked really traumatic and saw it pierce right what he thought was right through his foot. So the context there is super important. Like, there's zero tissue damage, but he perceived
