Get a call. At work. Not a call you want to get anywhere or anytime…
“Your (8-year old) Son got hit in the head by a rock thrown by another student, Mr Aldin.” Blood everywhere. School Nurse had “never seen so much blood.”
The Good Lady Wife leaves her work, picks him up, takes him to the Doctor. Everything’s fine. The cut is less than a centimetre long (about 1/4 inch) and not very deep. Must have just hit a blood vessel. He’s ok, but it hurt a lot.
Finally gets back to his normal chirpy self, lies on a camp mattress in front of the TV
… only to have his bigger brother (who is in those awkward first stages of puberty where suddenly the body is bigger than the brain thinks it is and who has no idea where his limbs exist in the space-time continuum) try to step across the patient
… and kick him hard in the head
… right where the rock hit…
More tears.
Fortunately no more blood.
Ah, the joys.
4 responses so far ↓
Bunk Strutts // Sep 6, 2008 at 7:08 pm
“…who is in those awkward first stages of puberty where suddenly the body is bigger than the brain thinks it is and who has no idea where his limbs exist in the space-time continuum…”
Great description of one of the more painful stages of male pre-adulthoodness. Make sure that he realizes that all of the subsequent stages are just as awkward, and that a REAL MAN dodges it without letting anyone know.
Pete // Sep 6, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Well I sure didn’t experience any awkwardness. Did you?
MadCow // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Reminds me of a post you did a while back, Pete … something about Murphy’s Law??
And I’m sure it was an accident! Those big brother’s are soooo accident prone!
Hope he gets better soon, and doesn’t cause you too much grief (what with being a boy and all ;))
Pete // Sep 22, 2008 at 7:41 pm
It’s been a great excuse to NOT get his hair brushed in the morning and even though I’m sure it no longer hurts, he’s still using it.
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