Monday, July 07, 2008

Tell me it will be OK

The boys left early this morning to go to Scout Camp. I was somewhat happy to have them all leave. Mainly to eliminate all the fighting that has been going on. They are very good at tormenting their sisters.

Andrew called me a little bit ago. This was weird, he can't call from the camp, it is in the middle of the wilderness somewhere, supposedly there are no phones there, and cell phones don't work.
Well, it turns out he was calling from a hospital. That is NOT a good sign. Not only was he in the hospital, he was there with one of MY boys.

Kyle had a accident with an arrow on the archery range and his eyeball. The story is that he was going to retrieve an arrow. He bent down to pick it up and didn't see another one sticking up from the ground. That unseen arrow went into his eye. He stood up and was pouring blood. Andrew did not see what happened, but suddenly heard all these boys yelling "BLOOD". When he looked Kyle had taken off running, he was on his way to the medic. (you can thank me now for not posting a gross picture of what I imagined he looked like at this time. It involved an arrow sticking out of his eye with blood pouring down his face, we may also be thankful that Andrew didn't have the camera with him, he says Kyle looked like someone from a terrorist attack photo.) Andrew says it is fortunate that Kyle was wearing a solid red t-shirt, none of the blood is showing up on it.

At the medic, Kyle started feeling sick and woozy, he really isn't very good with bodily gore.
At the same time, there was another kid there with diabetes that started feeling sick, Andrew used Travis's meter to check him, he was high and needed a shot. He thought his insulin was in the tent, so he and Andrew went to find it, they got to the tents, and it was not there, then they had to go find where it had been stored on the other side if camp in a fridge, and get him taken care of, all while trying to find out just how badly Kyle had been injured.

In the mean time, it was decided that Kyle's eye was bad enough he did need to go to the ER an hour away. Andrew borrowed someones car and drove Kyle there. At the hospital, it was determined that the notched end of the arrow had poked him in the eye, with one side cutting the inside of his eyelid, and the other side cutting into the white of his eye. Fortunately it did not go completely through the eye. He passed a vision test, though he said it was kind of hazy. The most they are worried about at this point is infection and the chance that he may have injured his tear duct.

Of course, being the mommy, I am much more worried. I want to be there with him, but fortunately he does have his dad.

And Andrew thinks he won't have to go to Scout camp with him next year. I think he is wrong.

This was just on day one, do I need to worry about days 2-6?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

does that mean he will be missing more swimming??? can i be there the 1st day back - i want to see serges' face!
stephanie n

D-dawg said...

Ann! That is so scary! I hope his eye is ok and I'm so glad Andrew was there to be with him. That is my worst nightmare.