So first I must warn you...if you have a weak stomach to bloody things please do not continue.
This last Friday, while talking on the phone, Andrew decides to be sneaky and cut his own piece of rice krispie treat. Well, what he thought was a butter knife (which I allow him to use supervised) was actually one of my new, VERY sharp steak knives. Well....... I hear crying. I just know that he cut himself being sneaky (he's always sneaking). But when I see him his finger is dripping with blood. I had no idea a single finger could put out so much blood. So I take him to the bathroom to try and assess the situation. Lo and behold.....he sliced the tip of his finger almost completely off.
So I wrap it with a bandaid as tight as I can with tape, Wrap his hand in a towel (just in case the bandaid doesn't keep the blood at bay), throw Jacob in the car, call a friend to see if she can watch Jacob, call Ryan to tell him what happened and to tell him he needs to pick Jacob up from the friends house, and take Andrew to Urgent Care.
We get to Urgent Care at Kaiser Permanente and they don't open for a half hour. I didn't want to go to the ER because I know we'd wait longer than at Urgent Care so we wait.....and we wait....apparently those with the flu take higher priority over blood and guts. That's the only conclusion i can come up with. We waited...oh...about an hour. Once we were in it was pretty quick moving.
The picture taken was after the wound was cleaned and we were waiting for the doctor to assess whether to use glue or stiches. Poor Andrew! All this was done without any pain killer or anything. Let me tell you...Andrew is a strong boy!!! The whole time we were trying to clean his wound he was fighting with ALL his strength and I almost couldn't hold him. I was trying with all MY strength and he almost won!! He is a strong boy!!!!!! I had to tell him to not fight when he's putting the glue on, otherwise we'd have to clean it again. He still fought, but not as hard.
So that is our story. Andrew is officially our reckless one. In the last year he has more injuries than Jacob has had in his entire life.
