my husband likes stitches...

i keep meaning to write about the wedding, but i have been super busy this week and have a project due for school at midnight tonight... but i had to blog about last night so i dont forget... it was bizarre to say the least.

in the past chris has gotten many... and i mean many stitches on his face... all acquired as an adult... he dove into some rocks at lake tahoe and then split his chin sledding... well tonight's adventure started with a basketball game.  chris and a couple friends from the dental school signed up for intermural basketball out at unlv main campus.  it started last night.  the game was supposed to be from 8:30-9:30.  i stayed home to get things done, but at about 8:50 chris called to say he was on his way home... and needed to get some stitches over his left eye... what?? apparently with in the first minute of the game... and i mean minute... some guy on the other team rammed into him with his head... so head to head and chris' exploded.  split right open a gash about an inch long and in the shape of a y.  bled a lot... needless to say the game was over for him.  

i called my mom to find out where to go... but she was too asleep to totally comprehend what i was asking (she goes to bed at 8pm)  but she did say to call my uncle david who is the family doctor... his phone was off... so i texted my aunt joan and she said to try an urgent care by our house... chris got home and we left... the saddest thing that happened when we left was i left my coat on the couch... meaning i froze the rest of the night... it was only 30 degrees outside... which is too cold for me and the sweater i was wearing.  we got to the first urgent care center at 9:30.... after waiting in line for a while... we find out our insurance isn't accepted there and it would be $600... so we left and decided to try umc quick care... so we headed for the ghetto... which was the closest location to us... and realized we badly needed gas... stopped at one place and eventually realized they had no gas.. just weirdos gambling inside... and then the second one was full of people getting off the bus.. chris ran in to pay and i stayed in the car... freaked out of course cause i'm afraid of the dark... especially in the ghetto... we got gas and drove to the quick care... which was shut down... not in operation.  awesome right? so we decided instead of driving forever to find another one we went back to our neighborhood to go to umc emergency room... 

we got there at 10:30 pm.  signed in and got initially checked out... by 11:45 nothing had happened except that we were surrounded by homeless and scary drunks... and random people who had a cold just hanging out... it was bizarre... and people were mad and yelling... or just plain crazy.  the place was packed!  but at 11:45 a nurse came out and told us we could go to the trauma center and they would treat us... yay! she asked if we had been waiting long and i was like yeah since 10:30 tonight... she laughed and said people had been waiting there since 10 am... oh.. woops then no it wasn't that long.  in the trauma center they took chris right back...and i had to wait in the waiting area with the security guards... they were funny teasing me about beating my husband and said next time because of his size i need to use an iron skillet and hit him when he's asleep.. i laughed and said i hoped we hadn't gotten to that point in our marriage yet considering we had been married like 2 weeks.. ha!  i then sat there and watched the history channel that was all about how greek gods... from the iliad and odessy were actually aliens... and that they had spacecrafts and motherships... it was bizarre... it even said that enoch from the old testament was an extraterestial... because god took him away in a chariot of fire.. meaning a spaceship!!! awesome right?  

chris badly wanted to take a picture of the wound before stitches but they wouldn't let him use his phone in the trauma center... but she told him he could go to the bathroom ;)  so he took this picture:

the cut took 9 stitches.  there were other people in the trauma as well... one guy who was drunk on his motorcycle and crashed... he left in handcuffs with a cop... and another guy who was smoking hooka with his wife and got dizzy and fell in hit his head on a coffee table splitting his forehead and chin... ha!  the whole ordeal was definitely an adventure and bizarre night... we left the hospital at about 1:20 am... i was freezing and when we got home chris showered and went right to bed... i of course could not go to sleep i was wired and freezing so i stayed up till 3 am relaxing and warming up while reading a book... i didn't get to sleep-in much either as my mom called at 8 am to get the full report of the night... ha! my accident prone man... now he will have another scar on his face and make his stitches count on his face over 30... go chris!