I’m usually the one in this household that has weird accidents.
Remember last March when I fell flat on my face and tore open my chin right to the bone and wrenched my jaw, or last July when I tripped on a weird curb and tore a ligament in my knee?
This morning Chris was leaving for work and he was fixing his lunch bag as he got to the end of our walkway. At the same time a female jogger was going by and she was looking at her runners watch to see what her pulse was and how many kilometers she’d run.
Well, as you can imagine, the jogger crashed into Chris as he turned from our walkway onto the sidewalk and he fell to the ground. On the way down his right shin hit the short wrought iron fencing that we have around our garden bed that is beside the walkway. The pointy top of the wrought iron fence, a Fleur de Lis, poked into the middle of his shin.
He apparently had a good dent and tear in his leg as a result! I was still in bed at the time and didn’t see the damage.
The jogger stopped and was quite apologetic for knocking him over. She said to him “You’d better go to the hospital!”, and Chris showed her his employee I.D. that was hanging from his neck and said “Well, I was on my way.”.
Chris came back in the house and cleaned up his wound, and then hobbled off to the hospital which is luckily only a few blocks from our home. Instead of reporting to the O.R. Recovery area where he works he went into the Emergency department and got stitches.
He’s been told to stay off work today and tomorrow. The ER doc that cared for him knows him quite well, and knows Chris is a hard worker who’s always on his feet. So he enforced the two days off rule with a note for the occupational health department.
Since he hit his leg hard and the wound was deep I wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up with a bruised shin bone as well as bruised tissue around the wound. So I’m back to being a nurse today, reminding him to elevate his leg and giving him ice-packs to put on his boo-boo.
I just hope that no one else has fallen into the our wrought iron fence in the past. We aren’t aware of anyone hurting themselves in front of our house. Perhaps we should re-think our choice in garden bed fencing and get something with a smoother top edge.
Ouch! Poor guy. I hope he stays off from it and just blogs all day for a few days. You do have more than one computer right?
Wow, that sounds really painful! Hope he is on the mend! Love the lizard in your logo – thanks for stopping by, and your thoughtful comments!
Ouch! That had me cringing while I was reading it! I hope he’s not in much pain!
Reading your post, made me hurt. lol Seriously, I hope he’s OK
Poor guy! If my mom red this, she would say it sounds like my son: ‘crazy dogs get scratch in their fur’
Wishing you a wonderful weekend:-)
Things like this make me glad I got my tetanus shot updated last month. I hope he mends quickly.
Yes he did stay off his leg for about two days Karen. Oh and he did do some blogging and did a bit of behind the scenes work promoting our sites. His leg is a lot better this week. Thanks.
I thought his leg was going to be really bruised but I guess all those icepacks on Thursday worked. Thanks for your concern. 🙂
Lisa LOL he’s ok. It’s not as bad as either of us thought it was going to be.
Kim thanks for your concern. He’s fine now. I was dreading it because he was limping around on Thursday so I figured he’d hurt worse on Friday and Saturday but we were both surprised that his leg was a lot better. Now he just needs the wound to heal.
Renny I’ll just have to take your word for that. 🙂
Luckily Chris works in a hospital and keeping your tetanus shots up is a requirement. Believe me, one of the first things I asked him was when he had his last tetanus shot. LOL He’s on the mend. 🙂