My eldest child had an accident on a non-motorized scooter and went headfirst on the road.  He has road-rash all over his abdomen and chest and arms, and very scraped up elbows and knees, and what appeared to be a gash over his eyebrow.  Kevin has him at the ER to make sure he doesn’t need stitches, and that he didn’t land on a wrist; Z wasn’t sure, and it could have been a scrape or could’ve been how he landed w/scrapes in the process.  At the very least, he’s probably going to have a tetanus shot (which will not thrill him), since I don’t think he’s current and he was getting one in October.

Update on the boy… his right wrist is broken, in a kind of L-shape that has the doctor concerned about it healing properly and we’re going to have to follow-up with an orthopedic visit.  She’ll see what kind of cast she wants on it, in the meantime he’ll have to be careful with this temporary thing.  He had glue instead of stitches on his forehead, and didn’t have to have a tetanus shot because he was current after all.  He’s pleased that at least he broke the hand/side he uses to write…

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