Mark Watney: A Short Story
After the dust storm on Mars, we learn that Mark Watney finds himself impaled by a metal antenna piece, next he cuts the antenna off and limps slowly to the main habitat , after pulling out the metal shard he quickly stitches together his wound.
"The antenna had enough force to punch through the suit and my side, but it had been stopped by my pelvis. So there was only one hole in the suit (and a hole in me, of course). I had been knocked back quite a ways and rolled down a steep hill. Somehow I landed face down, which forced the antenna to a strongly oblique angle that put a lot of torque on the hole in the suit. It made a weak seal."(Weir 17) Mark survives the entire night with a hole in his suit on
"The antenna had enough force to punch through the suit and my side, but it had been stopped by my pelvis. So there was only one hole in the suit (and a hole in me, of course). I had been knocked back quite a ways and rolled down a steep hill. Somehow I landed face down, which forced the antenna to a strongly oblique angle that put a lot of torque on the hole in the suit. It made a weak seal."(Weir 17) Mark survives the entire night with a hole in his suit on