Oh, one more thing...: Keeping Up With Ethan

The Back Story

My nephew Ethan just recently broke his femur and had surgery to install a rod in his leg. He was bragging about how many stitches he had received, especially because he trumped Jack's 25 stitches in his scalp from just a few days earlier. Ethan has had more stitches than most of us - me included - but his all came at one time. He's a tough kid. He'll end up with more before he's done. Jack, too!

You can see Jack's scar here, as well as more pictures of Ethan's surgery --> Erin's Blog

Ethan's incision marks. He said there were stitches under there...

4 Stitches

Well Ethan, I've got four more stitches to add to my total, bringing me up to 70.

I got hit on the bridge of the nose with a puck while playing in Woodstock last night. A defenseman on the other team attempted to get rid of the puck as I was pressuring him. His clearing attempt hit me square in the beak. Other than hurting a whole bunch, it bled like crazy. Since it was early in the game I figured I would try to get the bleeding to stop and see how it was. The area behind our bench looked like a grisly crime scene, blood everywhere.

Random hockey picture inserted here

I was able to get the bleeding stopped after a few minutes, and with the help of a couple of teammates, got some gauze and a band-aid on it to keep it from leaking anymore. Of course I finished the game - with a goal and a couple of assists to boot!

Some swelling, some stitches. Black eyes are coming!

I went to the hospital and was actually quite surprised by how quick everything went. An x-ray, 4 stitches and sent on my way in 31/2 hours. I have a fracture of a nasal bone, some swelling - and it hurts when I squint.

I'll take the stitches out in a few days and see how much scarring there is when it's healed up. Certainly won't help my looks much, that's for sure! I'll post another picture if I get good black eyes from this.
Strangely enough, it was this time last year that I received 4 stitches in my lip in another hockey game... This is a bad time of year for me to be playing!!