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Today, the first day of the two-week school holiday, we had our first blood and guts trip to the emergency room. Not bad for three kids in fifteen years, if you don’t count that one late night hospital visit for stomach x-rays when we found a two-year old Elle gagging on a Lego she had swiped unlawfully from her sisters’ room and refused to say whether she had swallowed another one or not…
Sarabelle was out speeding around on the runway with Grice’s bike, standing up coasting, when the chain snapped and she wiped out on the very sharp sealed gravel. It was not particularly bloody, road rash from her head to her feet, but the wound on her knee was gaping and meaty looking.
I was very proud of the way Grice and Elle stood by their sister, helping her up the stairs, retrieving the broken bike, even insisting they stay with her in the treatment room (at least until I noticed Grice had gone white and was on the verge of fainting during the suturing procedure.)
Eight stitches and a tetanus shot later, we are home again.
Blood is thicker than water.
-- John Ray (English Proverbs)
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3 comments:
Stains more, too lol.
Glad it wasn't too much T&D. How's the patient today?
Because she can't bend her knee for fear of pulling out the stitches, she's enjoying the opportunity to stretch out on the couch with lots of hands to wait on her and plenty of uninterrupted computer time.
She thought the oral antibiotics they had given her were pain killers. The placebo effect was very potent and she is resting comfortably. : )
Wow, 8 stitches! I hate to watch sutures going in....
Amelia had a massive bike wipe out earlier in the summer. No stitches but massive road rash & bruising from shin to nose to black eye. The bruising on her hip & elbow kept her sore for days.
Enjoy your lounging days Sarabelle!
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