Monday, November 1, 2010

JOHN BIFFED IT!!!

So today around 5pm I got a call on the phone from John. He was on a mountain bike trip and he called me to pick him up because he crashed. Cory and I went to pick him up. He was walking fine and things, but his face was mangled. After a long ride with speeds up to 50 mph, he was just winding down the last stretch when suddenly he saw a guy down the trail a ways. He slowed to about 5mph and got to one side of the trail when the trail under him gave way and he face planted into the dirt. We took him to the urgent care center, but he had lacerations deep inside of his lower lip. So we took him to the ER and they called in an oral surgeon. He had a another deep laceration on his forehead in the shape of a Y. Other than some cuts and scrapes, he is ok. Oh yes, and he chipped his tooth. Good thing our deductible is already met this year!! No broken bones, but just cuts and scrapes. He will be fine, but a little tender for a while. That was a scare, but everything is OK. At the hospital Cory was so interested in what was going on, he stared over the doctor's shoulder during the whole thing and asked all kinds of questions all along the way while Shaely and I sat and talked. (We weren't really interested in the mess of gore.)
Here are all the pictures:
Look at that big hole where is lip ripped open
Y cut in the forehead:
After the surgery, but before getting cleaned up:
Chipped tooth action:
Here is the mess made after it all. There was a vein that was cut during his wreck that would not stop bleeding. The doctor tried to coderize it, but it wouldn't seal. So he lasso'd it with some synthetic thread that dissolves in time and tied it off and then closed the stitches.