Too many hospital visits…
On Friday, our good friend Dan had a motorcycle accident. Sarah and Suz went up to visit on Saturday. He’s going to be OK, but it will take a while before he’s back on his feet. Sarah was about to go visit him in the hospital again today (he should be moved from Baltimore to Arlington tomorrow or Wednesday to make the visits easier).

But she was distracted by my call while Robert and I were out for a walk. I started off with something like, “Hi, Robert wanted to stop off at the playground on our way home… OUCH!” and I hung up. I called back about a minute later to ask her to come pick us up. Robert had tripped up on the steps and bonked his head on the top step — it was a pretty deep cut. So Sarah swooped in, picked us up and we went off to Alexandria’s emergency room.

We walked out 3 hours after the fall (pretty good, in my book) with 4 stitches just above Robert’s right eye. Physcian’s Assistant Danielle said Robert was her best patient all day — normally I would think she always says that, but he was a great patient and put up with the cleaning and stitching very well. It could make a good sword-fighting scar; but I don’t expect the scar to last.

He’s obviously over the trauma and was happy to be back at home playing with his blocks. We’re expecting a really pretty purple, blue, and black eye tomorrow…