My Navel

Before I talk about my own belly button and its fluffy antics, I want to highlight another’s plight. The story of Jessica Collins and her terrible accident makes my recent belly button woes pale into insignificance.

Back at the end of September 2007, when on a working holiday (in Munich) Ms Collins was involved in a car accident. The portion of the seat beat the goes across the lap or belly pushed her navel piercing almost through to her spine. This unfortunate event placed her in intensive care for five days and left her with a wound that has been likened to a bullet hole. Read all about it at BBC News.

I know this is slightly old news but there is something remarkable about this. Ultimately it was a freak accident but that is a tremendous amount of damage for a small bit of body jewellery.

On a slightly different note, my close-up lenses haven’t arrived yet, although the ebay vendor assures me that they have been posted. A work colleague has lent me his x10 lens for the interim and I have a fine collection of fluff that I will photographing with it later.

Until then I have last night’s little wad to share. It still isn’t a great deal but it appears my belly button is well on the road to making a full recovery. I don’t know what happened but it does appear to be gaining strength with each passing day. I didn’t have a ruler to hand to I had to photograph it against the ubiquitous penny.

It is a little more of a wisp than yesterday but it is still under-sized for my average day’s production. Even so, I have added it to the Lint Jar; there is still little to see in the bottom, the two deposits in there so far still look a little lost.

This entry was posted on Friday, January 4th, 2008 at 10:04 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.