The Flood Gates Have Opened!

Maybe he should gear up every day!

As you all know, my boy had a little mishap with his bike last week and had to have some stitches to put him back together again. Well, last night we removed the offending stitches and I can honestly say that the injury flood gates have now opened!

If you have ever gone out drinking, especially beer, you know exactly what I am talking about. You are having a great time and all of the sudden it hits you that you have to pee. Do you immediately go to the rest room? NOOOOOO! You wait for as long as humanly possible because you know that minute you break the seal, you will spend the rest of the night going back and forth to that nasty bathroom. Once you open the flood gates there is no going back and there really isn't much worse than that.

Well, I think my boy has opened his injury flood gates. We had 7 1/2 glorious injury free years, other than the normal bumps and scratches, and now that time is done. Over. Finish. Kaput. Within the hour of removing his stitches he was accidentally run over by his friend with their bike. Bloody nose, scraped up knee (yes, the same one with the stitches), and pain. Lots of pain. Really, only one hour later. You have got to be kidding me!

Stitched up leg, getting better!

At least this time all it took was some toilet paper up the nose and a warm shower and all was better in his world. But now I live in fear. I knew his first set of stitches weren't going to be his last, but I didn't think he was going to be a homing beacon for all incoming catastrophes. It is like he is a magnet for trouble. Crap, the flood gates are opened.