It did, however, include a six hour trip to the emergency room!
What happened still is not completely clear. The three older kids were out riding bikes with a kid down the street. From what I have gathered, Caleb was racing the other kid (so he was going as fast as he could) and his chain broke. What we were first told was that the chain came off and IT hit him. What I was later told was that the chain popped off, the bike fell and it drug him about 10 feet. He was in shock when he came in and was barely able to talk.
He had a busted lip, two VERY skinned up knees, his left hands pointer and middle fingers had skin hanging and lots of blood and he had a hole in his arm - to where we thought we were seeing tendon, along with some minor scrapes.
It was a very busy night at the ER and while we were taken straight back we still waited a couple of hours before we even saw a nurse. Then it was a couple of more hours before we saw anyone again.
The nurse said she was also pretty sure that we were looking at his tendon on his arm. She said he would probably need stitches on his arm and at least one finger. She put a wet dressing on his arm and made him stick his two fingers in a cup of water/peroxide/betadine. He sat that way for over an hour and a half! They also did an xray of his right arm to make sure he did not break anything.
When the dr came in he said that nothing was broken. There was not enough tissue to put stitches in his arm (and we were not seeing tendon - it was the fatty layer right above the tendon). He would have to pull tissue to try and stitch and he said it would be very traumatic and painful. It will take longer to heal without the stitches, but it will heal just as well as if he had them. His fingers also did not have to be stitched. They, too, are wrapped. His right arm (the arm with the hole in it) is in a sling.
A different person came in and spent about an hour cleaning all of his wounds and wrapping/bandaging him up. His arm is in a sling and he goes to see his pediatrician on Wednesday to make sure everything is healing correctly. He can't do PE (they were starting weight lifting this week), band, swim (his final competition is Saturday). He is left handed, so he is having a hard time doing much with his fingers bandaged up. I don't want to see his writing this week!
Of course, Paul left today to go out of town for the week. I don't do blood very well, so I really was not sure if I was going to be able to dress his wounds. But, it is amazing what a Mom can overcome for their children. I had the icky shakes several times while taking care of them last night, but I got them all cared for.
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Caleb outsmarted you - he found a way to avoid washing dishes! Personally, I'd prefer to be a dishwasher than roadkill!
Love you, Lindsay
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