Thanks, fern! I'm sorry to read that your son needed stitches this week, too. I didn't watch. Really the long needle (for the numbing) was the worst of it for me. When I saw it, I couldn't imagine where the doctor was going to stick that thing. He shoved it from the bottom of my finger up my hand and then left it there for what seemed like forever. The stitches were nothing. All the while, the doctor and I were debating whether algebra was more interesting than calculus. I won't go into how that came up. I voted for calculus with statistics as an honorable mention. He preferred algebra. He said algebra was more a scientist's favorite, while calculus likely appeals more to creative types. I found that interesting.