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I could've blinded him...

It doesn’t take much to render me useless in an emergency.   The sight of blood usually brings me to my knees…I don’t quite faint, but run around the room looking for things that will probably be useless in staunching the flow…like a piece of paper or tape measure.   Having these things to hand probably would be useful in other circumstances but in this particular case could have been seen as surplus to requirements.    I’d often thought I could be a good doctor…but not in the ER..diagnosing ailments from my armchair is about as good as it gets!    In this case BH was doing absolutely nothing to warrant an  attack on himself....he was just lying there….sleeping!!    As was usual at that time of night, I was reading the latest hardback from Jodie Picolt.   BH was deep in slumber, as was also usual for that time of night.   Despite the fact that the TV was blaring , the side lamp was on , he could often sleep through the thousand lorries rolling past our house as was usual for th