Can you figure out what occurred?
Here are your clues:Some "goodies" Keith received afterward.
The clothes he was wearing.
The act that started it all.
And if you still are guessing...
Keith was splitting wood with a wedge when piece punctured his leg. He called into the house for paper towels. I took them out to him & proceeded to call his sister next door. (He's making fun of me for that. But I think I made the best decision for me. The potential outcomes were: nothing would happen, I'd vomit, I'd pass out. Which is based upon past experience. What do you think, did I make an appropriate choice?) She comes over & tells him, I think you need a stitch. So we made it promptly to the ER. (Which, by the way, the ER was very impressed with. Some people wait 3 days before they come in!)
Here's some more fun facts for our day:
We were in "Fast Track 1" at the ER. The main resident that was with us was poking & prodding to see if he could find a foreign body & got squirted. (face, curtain, floor) "Haven't had that happen before" he told us. "It's deeper than I thought." So they took an x-ray to see if there were any "foreign bodies." "Posterior... Lateral... Tibia" is what we were overhearing. Then they showed it to us. Looks like a tear drop doesn't it?
During our long waiting times we amused ourselves with various things:
- The resident came in to say, "Sorry we have no TV to watch. But Meatloaf is playing on the radio."
- One of the patients beside us. (3 came and left while we were there) There was a family with a small son & daughter who were peeking at us in the crack between the curtains. The boy was smiling & saying "the little guy has a bunk." They kept looking right at his 'flesh wound' (my description this time!) too. They were very interested in it.
- Repeating "Posterior, Lateral, Tibia;" "Little guy & his bunk;" the "Fast Pass" in Disney was much faster than the "Fast Track" in the ER.
- Listening to the goings on of all the workers outside our curtain. Speed talking on the patients conditions, including Keith's. The surgical resident being called the "Black Cloud." (Makes you feel warm & fuzzy inside, doesn't it!)
After much time & consideration by the resident & the surgical attending, it was left in since it is so deep & there wasn't any concerning pain or inflammation. He'll have to clean & dress it properly, and go back to the clinic so they can keep checking it. Potentially it could stay where it is, or work it's way closer to the surface. At that point they could easily remove it. (Now it would be like a needle in a haystack -- and would create more damage.) They compared it to a bullet wound. (So it's a pseudo-bullet.)
So for future reference "no MRIs" (Large magnet bad!).
Now that the blood isn't flowing, I can handle looking at his flesh wound. The notion that he's walking around with metal in his leg is a bit crazy! It's not just a flesh wound!!!
