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soul2share -> RE: The Holly and Potty Show (2/12/2011 2:43:30 PM)
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Oh Lord.....spoke to my sister earlier today.....my nephew has facial injuries that would do our little Holly PROUD! Apparently, earlier this week, my sister was in her nursing clinical class, and her phone kept going off. She took a quick potty break, and her phone rang then, so she answered it. (She didn't answer it before because she saw the caller ID, knew it was Bub, and just figured she'd call back during a break in class....yeah, right!)
It was her son's friend, and he told them they were on the way to the hospital w/Bub. They had been cutting down a tree for firewood, and when the tree fell, it hit some brush, causing the bottom of the tree to pop up off the ground instead of just falling flat....my nephew took it right in the nose. It hit him right below the lower lip and plowed into the bridge of his nose. It knocked him back and down, and he lost consciousness for a few minutes, no one really knows for sure how long. Somehow, the bridge of the nose didn't get rammed up into his brain, but he's in rough shape. The tip of his nose is stitched, he split his lower and upper lip, and messed up all of his teeth.....and of course, he went thru the braces thing as a teenager.....the bridge of his nose is pushed to the right, and he's going in for surgery the fix everything on Monday. He's got some minor facial fractures to his sinuses, but none of the major facial bones.
My sis said he doesn't appear to be in pain, she says he says his teeth hurt more than his nose, and he can't close his mouth because of the pain from them. And breathing is tough due to the damage to his septum. The running joke in the family is that both kids inherited their mother's grace......Bub is the undisputed proof of that......and the winner of the Klutz of the Year award!
She put a pic on her FB page that she took the same day, half of his face appears to be orange, but he didn't get the black eyes most folks get after a shot to the nose. The swelling was worse the next day, but you can see his stitches on his nose, and the nostril was torn. I SOOOOO wish I hadn't looked at the pic....just hearing the description of the injury made me cringe! The immediate concern my sis has is that it appears that his short term memory is damaged.....he doesn't remember anything at all about the accident, and he failed the memory tests the neuro put him thru. But the neuro seems to think that he will recover okay...there was no brain damage, no swelling or bleeding on the MRI or CT scan. He is one lucky kid....he keeps telling my sister that he wishes the tree would've hit him in the chest, but he's scrawny, and would have had more serious injuries had he taken it there instead of where he did get hit. His guardian angel was working some serious OT that day!
Lord, and I thought getting them to 18 was hard enough! They are always your "little" boy, or in this case, my "little" nephew.
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