I'm on vacation in the Grand Canyon so been gone for several days now, won't be back fully until next Friday. Anyways wanted to post something I've been studying recently on myself:

I was pulling my canoe on our dock in early August (concrete wall and steps) and we have a tarp on the bottom for the canoe so the concrete doesn't scratch it. I jumped from the top ledge onto the tarp and my arm right by my elbow skidded down the side of the wall. It was bleeding pretty bad and everything...

That scabbed over after a day and the scab came off a couple weeks later. To this day there is STILL a pinkish color and although it doesn't hurt or cause any problems, it's obviously not 100% healed. I think we all think that healing is so fast for the rest of our body, when in fact it really isn't. Maybe for a scab to disappear and have normal function again, but for it to be 100% again it takes months. I have been watching this scab on my arm heal since the beginning and it's pretty interesting how wrong I was about healing time for other parts of the body.

Just sayin, this stuff takes longer than we actually think...next time you get a scrape or cut, really pay attention to see when that skin truly is 100% next time. Thought I would try to add some information on the healing of skin :)