Minor Surgery

On Conference Sunday, we typically go to Kevin's parents' house for brunch and conference watching. This year was no different. During the second Sunday session, we broke out the conference Bingo for the kids to play with Reese's Pieces as the markers. That lasted for much of the session but the kids got restless and decided to go downstairs to play. With about 25 minutes left in the session I heard a thud and a sickening scream coming from Andrew. I ran down as he ran up the stairs. He was holding his chin which was visibly scraped up. He was crying so hard and the other kids were all talking at once. It took several seconds to get out of them that he had fallen off the treadmill. He had apparently set it on 10 mph and got thrown off. He scraped up both knees, the tops of his feet, over his right eye, his chin, and his teeth went through his upper lip. I thought it had gone all the way through. We rushed him to the ER. After two hours, we walked out with Andrew having 3 stitches above his lip. He had not gone all the way through the lip but a good chunk was taken out. We are glad that he is healing up well. Unfortunately, he had soccer pictures 3 days later, but he will just look like a tough soccer player who goes all out and gets beat up.