HAHAHAHAAAAA

My stomach hurts from laughing so much!!!!

My little brother called me tonight b/c he needed help. The parents were in Galveston and he cut his thumb on his sword... yes his sword! *begin laughing now*

I packed up the kiddo and ran over there to find him standing in the yard holding his thumb on. It had cut through his nail and across the edge of his thumb. There was a tiny flap of skin holding it on. After assesing that a bandaid would probably not work we hopped in the car and drove to the emergency room.

Thank god for grandparents, they came and got my daughter so hopefully she will not come down with any crazy illness from being at the emergency room.

Anyway, normal emergency room visits are usually fairly dull... but when your with someone whos thumb is hanging off it's pretty entertaining. He sat there and bled while waiting to be called up. The other fine patrons of the Friday night emergency room kept wandering over and asking to see his nearly severed appendage..and of course asked how he did it so he had to explain multiple times that he was unpackaging his sword (HaHAHAHAHA) and sliced his thumb.

After the parade of orderlies and patients gawking he finally got to go to his own private little room. The nurse cleaned it up with a syringe of water... it flapped and bled a lot... gave him a shot to numb it... and started sewing. The shot didn't work very well, he squealed a lot while they were sewing, and of course the nurse dutifully explained that no he was not feeling pain, that it was all in his head and all he was feeling was pressure... HAHAHAHAAAAA

5 stitches later, two of which were THROUGH his fingernail another nurse came in and cleaned it up and bandaged it. We sat and waited and waited and waited for his discharge papers. I found the remote for the t.v. and flipped channels (wishing I had found it about 30 minutes earlier). Finally they came with the papers and the lady explained what the prescriptions were, an anti inflamatory and an antibiotic. My ears perked up b/c I didn't hear anything about pain meds so I asked her what he should do for the pain... she pointed to his prescription of Motrin and said that should take care of it. HAHAHAHAAAAA You go in with a cough and they give you vicodin, cut of your thumb and you get Motrin!!???!!!!

I took him home and he showed me the weapon of mass destruction that took off his thumb, you could see the marks of how deep it went. Being the clean freak that my mom is she has trained her children well... no drips of blood anywhere but the bathroom!

He paid $11 for the sword.
$500 for the emergency room visit
$60 for the meds

But getting to laugh at my brother all night was PRICELESS!!!!