Urban Survival Secrets

An Emergency at Home

Last night, my son, being a hungry teenager was grabbing a jar of pickles from the fridge dropped it. When the jar dropped, he jumped and landed on a piece of glass or two, slicing his foot open badly (15 stitches!)

My first reaction was to tell him to not move in a very stern voice – he was standing and mentioned he was bleeding! Why not move? I did not want him to step in any other glass. So, I grabbed my slippers and went over and scraped the glass out of the way (my floors are acid stained concrete.) He was bleeding all over the place. I inspected his foot and removed a large piece of glass and dressed his wounds.

In most situations, you do not want to remove something sticking in someone, but in this case, the blood was flowing pretty well, and a pressure bandage on top of glass would have done more damage than not. My family doctor (lives four doors down) agreed that my choice was correct in removing the glass since the damage would be greater due to bleeding/shock than not. If this was a stick or something, I would have left it in!

We got out of the emergency room at midnight last night and the Staff was great. Poor kid has multiple shots which hurt greatly!

He should have grabbed the pizza!