sally4sara Posted February 2, 2011 Posted February 2, 2011 You know, those super stuffed nylon ones rather than the yarn only kind? So my son's school had a delay due to icy roads and the bus was still a bit late arriving. He came back in holding his face with blood all down the front of his coat. The kids had gotten bored and started a snowball fight. One was wearing those thick mittens and didn't realize he'd grabbed an ice chunk rather than a snowball and threw at at my son in the face. It tore him open so bad they had to call in a plastic surgeon at the ER and he had to have internal stitches before they could stitch it closed. Bruising and bleeding on the gum line so bad that we have to go today to find out if it caused one of his front teeth to go dead and need replacing. It was pretty gruesome! The kid who hit him was so scared and felt awful about it; oddly enough he was the one doing all the crying rather than my son. Just say no to the puffy mittens!
laRubiaBonita Posted February 2, 2011 Posted February 2, 2011 awe- poor kidS! i hope your son will be ok! and it kinda helps knowing that the other little boy was feeling really bad about it too.
donnamaybe Posted February 2, 2011 Posted February 2, 2011 Oh, damn, your poor son! I'll bet that kid felt just awful. I hope your boy recovers very soon. Kids usually do.
Author sally4sara Posted February 2, 2011 Author Posted February 2, 2011 The fact that it was so bad that it required a plastic surgeon actually worked to his benefit. He stands a better chance of any scarring being mild compared to a cut that would have only required surface stitches. I watched them stitch him up too. Funny how I can gut and butcher an entire deer but feel slightly faint watching them stitch up a gaping wound on my kid's face. Of course he still had enough humor in him to make poorly articulated wise cracks throughout the whole ordeal. And the more I told him to quit talking and risk making it worse the harder it was for him to not crack up over me fussing at him. SIGH, boys....he is definitely his mother's son! But chicks dig scars right? They gave him a shot of novocaine up under his lip and after a couple seconds he said "whoa, I can't feel my eyeball!" Of course this came out more like "Wha, ah ca feh muh ahvahl!" The dentist just finished telling me he will keep his tooth after all. Yay!
Stung Posted February 3, 2011 Posted February 3, 2011 Yikes, S4S! I'm glad your son will be okay, and good news about his tooth. I can dissect anything and have sat in on autopsies but I would have a really hard time watching somebody stitch up a wound on my son, too. Maybe the scar will give him a rakish new character. As you said, chicks dig 'em.
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