it's just a flesh wound

It's a little MCI for me.

BYU EMS is staging a Mass Casualty Incident at the Marriott Center tonight. My instructor asked 7 of his certifying students to be victims of a shooting and bomb explosion. I had to act out an asthma attack one time in class, and apparently I impressed him with the excessive wheezing/acting skills. So I got recruited for another gig. Am I dramatic?

It gets kind of old practicing with water for blood and strap on wounds, so BYU had professional makeup artists come on campus and work on us, to liven things up a little bit. I'll admit I was skeptical at first. I was expecting them to powder my face a little, maybe a black eye...

I sat down in the chair and over walks the only male makeup artist. Our conversation began.

"I got us a good one."

"Uh, so what are you going to do to me?" (eyebrows raised with apprehension)

(chuckling and unpacking his kit) "Gunshot wound to the cheek."

Apparently Ben is a VERY good makeup artist when it comes to blood, guts and gore. But I'll let you be the judge of that.

{entrance wound}

{exit wound}

{shrapnel wound}


{owie}

After Ben finished we took a bunch of pictures for his portfolio, and then he poured excessive amounts of fake blood all over me... again. A police escort was summoned so I could cross campus and get home without anyone calling 911 or trying to save my life.

Random, but worth mentioning:

• I didn't even care that this guy knew more about makeup than me.
  

• The picture doesn't show it, but he put fake teeth in my cheek!

• The wound is made up of napkins, tissue paper, latex, paint and Elmer's glue. Sounds like my 3rd grade art projects.