The Unexpected

Posted on | May 14, 2010 | 1 Comment

The Lord often protects me from some of the more difficult facts of life because He knows how weak I really am. Weak? More like wimpy, wimpy, wimpy!

Last Thursday, I was helping to set up and decorate for our church’s women’s retreat. This was my third in a row with CSA, second year helping and each year it is a huge blessing.

Normally, I call the boys at home so I can say good night, but that night I had called pretty late so when I got hubby’s voice mail I was a little disappointed but not surprised that I didn’t get a hold of him.

The next day, I did notice at some point that there was a voice mail waiting for me, but it wasn’t a convenient time to call back. Later on in the day, I tried to call but my phone either couldn’t find a connection or needed the SIM card re-installed. Oh well.

Turns out that on Thursday night, they were all at the ER! NM and J were riding their bikes on our street while hubby was doing some DIY work inside the house. A boy from our neighborhood had thrown his scooter in front of NM’s bike causing him to flip over the handle bars and “face plant” as he puts it. His lip had split, he had a huge bump on his head, a tooth was chipped and he thought he’d done something to his leg. We don’t know if that throw was intentional or who did it, but no doubt that poor boy didn’t expect what resulted!

From what I was told, the ER staff at the hospital were wonderful to him. They checked his leg for a break and for a concussion but he didn’t have either, praise God. The doctor took his time and carefully stitched him up. When I got home on Saturday afternoon, hubby prepared me by telling me “it’s not as bad as it was” which of course made no sense to me but he proceeded to explain what happened. I had to mentally prepare myself so I kept unloading my friend M’s car. When I did see him, his face was so swollen and his lips were even worse.

I’ll spare you from photos that hubby did take…I have a hard time looking at them!

But, thanks to answered prayer, his healing was so rapid. On Sunday, he and I stayed home from church.  NM, Sprocket and I snuggled in his bed and I read to him from Psalms then he requested Deuteronomy 1 because “Abba read that to us” and I guess he was struck by it and wanted to hear it again. So I also read the next chapter for good measure. But the swelling in his face was practically gone by the end of that day.

This past Wednesday, we headed to the doctor to get the stitches removed (that smarts!) and then to the dentist to get the tooth capped. Stitches? Not so much a problem but the dentist was another story. I’d forgotten how long that process takes and if you’re sensitive, it can really hurt when the local anesthesia wears off. Poor baby!

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It was hard to wait and sit, sit, sit.

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The dental technician was very gentle and careful when she made the molds. They had made a total of three of them, I think.

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I wish I could remember what he was telling me. He was SO good and so patient waiting with me for his brother to be done.

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It got cold in there and he finally accepted a blanket that was offered to him. He got really good at handling this suction thingie.

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J found ways to keep occupied. Hehe.

So NM now has a temporary cap for his tooth and in three weeks we go back for a more permanent one. The doctor hopes it will last him at least 10 years, but says he can guarantee that he’ll need a root canal for that tooth one day, probably when he’s around 20. I am so grateful to live in a time when we have the technology to even fix his tooth!

Category: Family Stuff, God is Great

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One Response to “The Unexpected”

  1. k.d.
    May 14th, 2010 @ 4:50 pm

    *hugs*

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