The Camera Behind the Books
Then she examined my daughter.
Superficial frostnip to both ears and to the fingertips of both hands, with the right hand worse than the left.
No deep tissue injury and no long-term damage, which I did not find out for another two days and which I thought about every hour in between.
Two abrasions on the scalp consistent with clipper contact.
A small laceration behind the left ear, healing.
Bruising to both upper arms, in a pattern she documented in a diagram and photographed, which I had not seen and which I want to describe accurately because I was not there: four small marks on the left arm and one on the right, above the elbow.