Poor Buddy

Jost wins a prize for having the worst possible day yesterday. He started off the day by waking up with pink eye. Not terrible - but it did sting. I made a doctor's appointment since we've never had pink eye and I wanted to be sure. On the way to the doctor's he had a huge nose bleed. It continued bleeding during the appointment which made it hard for the doctor to see his eye. It isn't unusual for him to have a nose bleeds. I guess he takes after Papa that way. Then for the grand finale - we were at Monte & Jeneen's. The cousins were playing outside when I heard a wail - scream - groan coming from the garage. Jost came into the house with blood covering his face. He had leaned down to pick up a bat and hit it on the end of the weight lifting bar. The gash wasn't too long, but it was wide. Since it was on his face we decided to take him in to the Urgent care. Poor guy! He ended up needing four stitches and a tetanus shot. He was terrified when they told him but when they actually did it he was very brave. They tried to numb it with a gel but it didn't work. She started the first stitch and it hurt so they had to stop and give him the numbing shot into the skin. For me that was the worst part. He never screamed or hollered just said really politely "That hurts - it really hurts!"

When he was done we went back to Monte & Jeneen's. We topped off the night by goofing off with Chris and Michelle and Monte and Jeneen and the cousins. We just wanted to have some fun. Today Jost says everything hurts. He has a goose egg under the stitches. Plus his arm hurts where he got the shot. Now we just have to wait and see if it scars. They will take out the stitches next Wednesday, so we should see then.