Thomas somehow batted the ball directly into his eye last night during the first inning of his game. His coach asked if he was OK, he said yes, so they pitched to him again. He hit the ball and ran to first. The first baseman said "coach he's bleeding", so they stopped the game and pulled him out. At this point there was blood all over his eye, and his eyelid had a huge bulge of swelling. They got gauze and an icepack, and I drove him to the ER in Fall River Mills. By the time we got to Fall River, he had had an icepack on for a half hour and the swelling had gone down. They gave him a visual acuity test (still 20/20) and cleaned 
him up, then they glued the cut over his eye. They use superglue (Dermabond) instead of stitches now.Now I have one kid with 2 fat lips, and one with a black eye. Thomas is doing fine, especially since the doctor told him he's not allowed to scrub his face :)
He is just upset that they pulled him off at first and he never made it home. His coach called me while we were at the ER to let Thomas know that they all think he's tough.
Waiting for the glue to dry.
I see that Thomas did not apparently know the rules as to what time you could get hurt and so you had to drive him elsewhere, eh?
ReplyDeleteTell Becky she is not allowed to get hurt next!
Hope the boys heal quickly!