Knowing what a slippery, confusingly red mess that would have been, I can’t imagine how he managed to seize arteries and tie knots in them. Most people couldn’t tell an artery from a vein anyway. And the arteries, being muscular, tend to contract when severed so I don’t even know how he located them. It’s inconceivable. The Holy Spirit must have been guiding his fingers and his stomach. God must have something planned for this young idiot’s life.
Me either. At first I thought he must've used the old seamstress's trick for tying a one-handed overhand knot where you make a loop and roll the thread between your thumb and forefinger, then pull the end through. But doing that with a big bloody, slippery stub of an artery, I can't imagine (I had to try it again with my shoestrings to re-confirm in my mind that it only works with small stuff like thread). So I don't know how he managed. She is one lucky lady that I wasn't the one who happened upon the scene; I'm too hamfisted to ever have tied her arteries off, even with both hands.
Most people couldn’t tell an artery from a vein anyway. And the arteries, being muscular, tend to contract when severed so I don’t even know how he located them.
The arteries would have been the ones spurting a lot of blood.