Running Commentary

Derailed April 03 2007

So, I started to worry about Chris at about 5:20pm, last night. That had given time to even work late (which he often does) and bike home. I even considered that he wimped out and jumped on a bus, he should be coming around the corner any minute.

No Chris.

I just KNEW something was up. Just knew it.

And then he called.

From the hospital.

Yeah, seems he was moving some huge sheet of glass at work with someone when if fell and broke. A 4ft shard fell at his feet, he simply picked it up and moved it the heap with the rest of the sheet, that’s when his boss noticed that front of Chris’s shirt (fleece, thank god it will come out) was covered in blood. Chris didn’t even feel it. He figures he was startled by the smash and was oblivious to the gash he received on his chin. A gash large enough to require 8 stitches to close it.

So he was slightly late coming home last night, our hospital likes to make you wait not matter what.

I should’ve taken a picture a of it last night, it was nasty. Today though, it hurts. The entry points of the four freezing needles are bruising. And? IT HURTS TO TALK.

So he went to the hospital, the cleaned it out a bit, THEN numbed it (so humane) and sewed it closed. Then they just sent him out. No bandaging, because he has a goatee, the Doc didn’t want to tape to it. And NO instructions on how to care for his stitches. Luckily he’s had stitches a bazillion times & his wife is the queen of looking this up on the internet and she didn’t let him SHOWER last night. (duh!)

I’m sure his day will be filled with with endless paperwork today. Incident reports and please don’t sue me reports.

So barring another hospital visit, I will be on my exercise bike tonight. Also, I’m going for a longer walk than usual today. After i drop noah off at school I will continue my walk around the subdivision.