I've never impaled myself but last week I had to make a trip to the vet with Ivan, my younger cat. He's my avatar and you can see where he likes to lay when I'm sewing. He curled his tail and he got a stitch in the last half inch of his tail. Fortunately, I was doing a needle up needle down and wasn't running full speed. The vet shaved an inch of his fur, cleaned it and decided it didn't need stitches :lol: and gave me a week's worth of antibiotic pills just in case. The one stitch cost me $52! Hope he's learned a lesson but I sincerely doubt it.