Influences

And it got me wondering -- what is one supposed to do about things like that?

Yes I think you would need to put some pressure on it. Perhaps a Steri-Strip(tm) across the almost invisible wound, some cotton wool on top of that and then a plaster on top of that. Not being a haemophiliac this would give your platelets a chance to aggregate around the exposure and form a clot, overnight is the best time for this to happen as you won't be using your mouth so much! I had one of those on my chin once that wept for literally days, all healed up eventually and the scar went away after 5 years or so.

K is terrified of her own blood. I have tried to explain to her what it's function is and how she could lose a lot of it and still be ok, like in a blood donation scenario, but still she has a very low level instinctual fear of seeing even a drop of her own blood. Ah, the mind of a child. I explained that when we are young we have many many fears, and that these fears are like the bars of a cage around us. As we grow older, we break down the bars of the cage one by one until - if we are lucky - we are totally free of fear - but it's ok to have these bars they are natural. I also mentioned even when one is eventually free of fears for oneself, one then takes on fears that loved ones may come to harm, so we never get to be really free of fear.

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Some Wikipedia info:

• Most of Let It Be was recorded in January 1969, before the recording and release of the album Abbey Road.
• Let It Be is the twelfth and final album by The Beatles, released on May 8, 1970
• Let It Bleed is an album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1969
• ... recording for Let It Bleed began in earnest in February 1969
• The Stone's Let It Bleed was released months before Let it Be, but it should be noted that most of the song (sic) from Let it Be had been recorded earlier than most of the songs in Let It Bleed, and was a known project.

And from Keith Richards in 1971, who said (to my reading) something like "it had nothing to do with The Beatles - oh hang on maybe it did" ... in the same breath :)

(It didn't have) a thing (to do with the Beatles' Let It Be). Just a coincidence because you're working along the same lines at the same time at the same age as a lot of other cats. All trying to do the same thing basically, turn themselves and other people on. Let It Bleed was just one line in that song Mick wrote. It became the title... we just kicked a line out... We dug that song so... maybe there was some influence because Let It Be had been kicked around for years for their movie, for that album. Let it be something. Let it out. Let it loose.