reconstructing a pumpkin.

Steve,

You're trying really hard to make this vicious and mean act go away.  Once the
pumpkin is broken up like that. . . wait a minute.  I was gonna try to get you
to understand that it was time to let go.  It probably is, but what would a
plastic surgeon do, if a terrible accident happened?  Reconstruct!

The thing is, time is against you.  And there is not going to be any
regenerative tissues.  The pumpkin is already breaking down, more and more
everyday.  Infection is bound to set in.  It doesn't look good.

Maybe you could use thin straight wire as "dowels".  The sticky molasses mixed
with an antibacterial agent might help.  If the pieces are large enough, they
might take to the dowels and hold on.  If some are very small, this is the
hardest part.

There could be so much necrotic tissue in the small pieces that saving them
becomes impossible.  You will have to find a donor pumpkin (I am SERIOUS)  and
take proportional pieces from it.  use wood or very fine metal to attach.

Do use a filler material as an armature for the pumpkin.  This will give it
strength, or the whole thing will probably collapse.  Stuff it on the heavy
side, so that if the pumpkin has a tendency to collapase, it will rest on the
filling.

Make sure to do the reconstruction where the pumpkin is going to stay as
moving it will probably prove fatal.

Good luck, Steve!

Judy
Jalust@aol.com
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