Emergency room

Last night I had to take Tyler to the ER. I behaved very calmly, which is sometimes hard in medical situations. Luckily, we have awesome neighbors! Melissa J, my new next door neighbor, willingly took our kids to her house and made them ramen noodles and brownies. They loved it. And them Melanie put them down to bed. Thanks Melanie and Melissa! Yes, I am drawing this out for suspense.

The kids behaved really nicely too. Samuel said he wanted to see so he walked over to the sink and saw all the blood and said, "oh, oh" and hurriedly backed away but he didn't scream or anything. I don't think Joc understood.

Oh, this is about Tyler. He is doing just fine. I spared you gory photos. Lucky you. We were preparing for dinner. I was on the phone w/Stephanie who had just had her baby. Yay, Stephanie! While making veggie kebabs. The grill was ready to go. Tyler was trying to pry those frozen Costco hamburger patties apart w/a Santuko kitchen knife (which he thinks spared his ring finger bcse it doesn't have a pointy tip). He admits it's one of the stupidest things he's done in his life. He already dropped the knife once and nearly chopped off our toes. But then I heard him yell and pound the floor, multiple times, w/his feet. I kept thinking, I hope Melanie isn't home to hear this. Tyler is usually pretty dramatic about things. But I looked and immediately told Stephanie that I needed to take Tyler to the ER. To make a long story short....3 hours of being in the ER he got about 8 stitches on his left pinky finger. And the only problem he may have is a little nerve damage but time will tell that. No tendons were cut, luckily.

I did not get too queezy, especially seeing all the blood and fat puffing out of his finger. And seeing the stitches put in didn't bother me either. I hope we get as lucky as the million dollar winner that we watched while we waited, on Deal or No Deal last night and our bill won't be too high. Luckily, Tyler just paid his student insurance last week thinking he'd never have to use it.
haha. I hope he is a little safer while carving pumpkins!