A Lucky Break

Lewie and I had one of those days on Friday best forgotten. Started out with me slipping down the stairs. There was a puddle of water at the top of the stairs left over from a shower. Unknown to me until I slipped on it and fell 4 steps down the stairs. I was incredibly lucky that the banister was there and I grabbed it. Could have kept going to the bottom. My toe popped and it sounded like it was broken. It swelled immediately and turned black. I called in sick to work and went to the doctor. This lead to us having to go to the Hospital for an Xray. Turns out it is only badly bruised and not broken. It is quite tender and ugly looking.

Lewie ended up staying home with me and doing his paper round, instead of going to summer camp. At about 4pm I received a call from Lewie. (I let him borrow my cell phone in case of emergencies while out on the round) He had fallen off his bike in the church parking lot and couldn't get up. I hobbled to the car and went down the road to find Lewie sitting on the grass with blood all over his knee and hands. I cleaned him up best I could on the side of the road. We managed between us to finish the round and get the bike and trailer back home. Once home I was able to assess his injuries a little better. He had a deep cut on one knee and road rash on the other. Road rash on his chest, and palms of his hands. The cut on his knee didn't look like it needed stitches so I patched him up using a butterfly bandage. Later on in the evening Lewie still seemed to be in pain and favouring his wrist. I checked it out but couldn't really tell if it was just badly bruised and swollen or broken. So we had a quick trip to the Janeway to have it checked out. (The Janeway is the Children's Hospital) Lewie had an Xray and his wrist is also only badly bruised but not broken.
So all in all a very lucky but eventful start to Tom's Birthday weekend.