I had seen that once before, bleeding water. A little baby I worked on as a resident in training. That poor kid had been shot as well–his father had blasted away the top of his head with a shotgun–and we couldn't begin to stop the bloodletting in that case. "Looking pretty thin down here, " I hollered when the stuff coming out his wounds was no more than pink salt water. That baby's heart stopped, started, stopped and started a dozen times before it finally gave up the ghost and we pronounced him. I could have read a newspaper through the watery stuff coming out his veins by then. Edison McDaniels
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