Head Wound

 May 21, 2014

The day after Kaden's birthday, I received a phone call home from the school nurse.  They told me Kaden had been hit in the head during recess and would need a new shirt. 

I rushed down to the school and Kaden was in good spirits.

---Apparently, a swing had gotten stuck up over the bar and another kid had decided it might be a good idea to try and knock it down with a plastic hockey stick.  He threw the stick at the swing and when it hit, the part that hits the puck, broke off and flew right into Kaden's head.  Kaden says that he didn't even realize he had been hit at first, but he heard a boom and ringing in his ears.  And then he saw the blood!  He said that he was "worried he'd have to go to the hospital with all that blood loss".  

They showed me the piece of hockey stick that hit him, it was a thick yellow boomerang shape, that looked kind of like a banana.  We joked that Kaden got hit in the head with a giant banana.  Kaden laughed.  ---I decided to run him down to the doctor's office, since our doctor also doubles as an urgent care, just to be safe.  He did not need stitches, but they did cut the hair around the wound, cleaned it with iodine and glued it closed.  Kaden said the "worst part was the iodine.  It stung."  And he needed one last shot before starting the 6th grade, so while we were there the pour guy had to get a shot.  He said it didn't hurt as bad as he thought it would.  

*As of today, June 7th, the wound is almost completely healed and he just has a little bald spot left.