Now
before this little story, if you don’t like gory pic’s please don’t read any
more. But at the same time I do urge you to look, so you can have a nice talk
to your kids about the dangers of glass. I know we have all said don’t play
around glass you could get hurt, but I do recommend sitting your kids down, maybe show them these pics and having a really good talk about why doors and
windows are not toys and are never to be used as such!
On
Monday night about 7:50 I was sitting there minding my own business I was just
thinking “hmmm it’s almost bed time for some of the kids” I could hear the boys
yelling and chasing each other and was
just about to get up to tell them to get inside sit down and stop being dicks
when, Smash!!!
MY
oldest slammed the glass sliding door shut just when Elliott went to chase him
though it!! I don’t think I have even moved as fast in my life. I heard the
sound of the smash and glass breaking then the scream. All in seconds. When I got
to Elliott he was just standing there with an utter look of shock on his face
holding out his arm. What I saw scared the crap out of me!!!
What
I saw was a huge V shape cut on his arm so deep the mussel was exposed
and the skin was flapping around all over the place, and the blood, my god the
blood was everywhere!
First thing I thought to do was just get the bleeding
stopped so without thinking I just covered the wound with my hand, shoved it up
in the air and held on tight while yelling for someone to get me the phone.
Then Annabel saw what happened and all hell broke loose!! Man
that girl can scream! She I very protective of her brothers and she does not like
seeing them hurt, and all this was just too much for her, I couldn’t even here
the ambulance lady on the phone.
I called mum next told her to just get here NOW, then I rang
Jon at work…”Elliott’s hurt met me at the hospital!!
I tell you it felt like forever for the ambo to get to our
house, I think I remember the lady on the phone saying it could be some time
before they get there, I’m not sure thou. Standing there holding your child’s
bleeding arm in the air thinking to yourself all the bad stuff he might have
cut “has he cut all the tendons? Veins? Will he bleed out before anyone gets
here? …its scary stuff, then when you see him go very pale and a bit wobbly on
it real panic sets in so I made mum ring them again.
Anyway long story short Jon turned up and said the ambos
are on their way, he was at A&E waiting and heard the call come in over the
radio, said to the guys, look that’s my kid I’ll go get him and just bring him
in, and they said nah we will go. So they turned up and I felt so justified when
they took one look at the wound and gave each other a look and said that’s not
great we will take him. (Ha I wasn’t over reacting!) Self-doubt sets in after a
while!
Rolling the story ahead a bit we are in a&e at this
point we have been told looks like it’s going to be surgery to repair the
damage and a night in hospital, then another doctor arrived and cleaned out the
wound and have a really, really good look, this was hard to watch. Elliott had
No pain meds at this point and cleaning up hurt so much he went bright red and
was just shaking like a leaf, he refused to cry and just handled everything
they did to him!
So after a good cleaning and x-rays were done, another
doctor bought in to have a wee look they decided, there was no mussel or tendon
damage and he could be stitched up and sent him that night…what a relief!! So 5 ½ hours
and 17 stitches later we were on our way home.
Photo time!!
before stitches , just after it got cleaned
After stitches
Now on a little 7 year old arms, its really it huge
Also these photos aren't the best. I only had my phone on me
