A Cut Above

Within two medical care facilities, St. Elizabeth Health Center ⇒ in Youngstown, Ohio and St. Joseph Health Center ⇒ in Warren, Ohio, are wound care centers that treat various types of unintended internal and external bleeding. Both hospitals are run by Humility of Mary Health Partners ⇒ which has opened up another hospital with a wound center in Boardman, Ohio ⇒ since the donation of this shirt.

Tony’s grandma got this shirt from visiting St. Joe’s. I got the impression, however, that she did not visit the wound center, but rather another part of the hospital. I can get behind receiving free shirts anywhere in a hospital. I have only left with my health, and not even that is certain as a patient.

Wounderful

A wound is is a cut, scratch, scrape, or puncture of tissue or organ. If any of those things were to occur, among the possibilities to consider could be applying pressure to the area before cleaning the wound with water, followed by rubbing on antibiotic ointment, and then installing a bandage if needed. Calling for professional medical assistance is another option.

I Don’t Give A Damn

“Gone With The Wound” is a pun on the title of the famous story “Gone With The Wind”. Gone With the Wind is a coming of age story that follows Southern belle protagonist Scarlett O’Hara through her interpersonal relationships with rouge Rhett Butler along with married couple Ashley Wilkes and Melanie Hamilton Wilkes. The setting is a mythologized Georgia during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. There have been a number of adaptations of which two maintain popularity.

The original expression of the story took was as a book written by Margaret Mitchell. The text was awarded with substantial sales from release in addition to the then-called 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Novel ⇒. The book is also infamous for blatant racism and for the long length to plot ratio.

The film version ⇒ was directed by Victor Fleming, George Cukor and Sam Wood and starred Vivien Leigh as Scarlett and Clark Gable as Rhett. won 8 Oscars and 2 other Academy Awards ⇒. It is still the highest grossing film when adjusted for inflation ⇒. The iconic “frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn” quote at the end of the movie caused quite the controversy at the time of release over the use of the cuss word that has lost all power in the America conversation of today.

Jest For Pun

As stated earlier, this shirt boasts wordplay. I would simply like to note that I quite enjoy humor of all types wherever it can be found. A usual benefit of wordplay is that the humor is found in the confusion of language rather than in the failures of others or in the adherence to pattern.

That the hospitals were willing to experiment with humor is to be appreciated. Intentional humor is far less likely to be used on strictly commercial shirts than on shirts for direct sale such as I Pedalled My Ass All Over Mackinac Island. That this shirt is successful in delivering to the ambition of the joke further places it above other failed attempts at humor such as Camelbak