Yesterday morning, Ryan's buddy had surgery on his foot to remove a half inch piece of glass from the heal of his foot. He is fine and will be walking by next week, but the beginning of this story starts at our house.
Monday evening, Ryan asked if two of his friends could spend the night. We said yes because it's Spring Break and those boys are always respectful and just really good kids. I must say, Ryan has the nicest group of core friends and I don't ever mind having any of them at my house.
Anyway, back to the story.... The boys ate and it was still early, but getting dark outside. They wanted to go outside, so I asked them to stay close to the house. There is a creek that runs next to our house and a large concrete bridge/platform you can use to cross over the creek. On the other side are city walking trails. The boys were over there, one of them had his skateboard and they were basically just hanging out.
About 20 minutes later or so, Ryan comes in the house asking where are the band aids. We asked why and he said one of the boys cut his foot on a piece of glass. We looked at each other and said why in the world was he out there with no shoes on? Well, as it turns out, he did have his shoes on....OUCH! He jumped in the air and came down on a broken bottle sticking up in the ground and the glass went through the sole of his shoe and into his foot. It probably did not help that he was wearing his shades in the dark either. The piece of glass sticking in his shoe was a half inch long. Needless to say, his Mom came and got him and he had to get stitches. But that is not the worst of it. When he went to get stitches they took xrays and flushed his wound out. They told his Mom that sometimes glass is hard to see on xrays and that is why they flushed it out real good.
The next morning a technician called his Mom and told her there was still a large piece of glass in his foot. He had to go to an orthopedic doctor and sure enough had to have surgery to get it out. The piece in his foot was another half inch long and it went to the bone. All went well, but wow, what a Spring Break! Sounds like he will be able to walk just in time for when school starts again. Complete Bummer!
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