Monday, August 8, 2011

Fourteen years . . . First stitches

With fourteen years and four boys, it's a miracle that we're just now experiencing stitches!!

Alex had an accident with the hedge trimmers back in April and here's how it happened . . .

This is pretty GRAPHIC so fair warning . . .


Alex decides to pull back some of the tall grasses of the plant he was trimming with his left hand while simultaneously using his right hand to trim the grasses. It didn't work out too well for his left middle finger!! I go and get him from Scott's to take him to CareNow. He is extremely pale, shaky, and has already thrown up twice!! Poor guy!! :)


His finger was just a mess of little cuts on top of little cuts . . . no straight cuts to be found!!



FOURTEEN stitches later . . . . he's almost as good as new!!


We return 10 days later to get them out. Here, he's planning on the pain that he's going to feel when they remove them. What a dork!!


I don't have a current picture of what it looks like now, but it healed up really nicely! I was very impressed that it looked as good as it did!!


Lesson learned . . . no more hedge trimmers for Alex!!

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