A Mommy in Brazil

Yesterday was  another day that will always be remembered. First it was when my son almost lost his finger, now this.

Yesterday at 8.02 the phone rang. My husband had just taken our son to school. School starts at 8.00 normally. First I couldn’t understand who it was that was calling, because we get so many sales calls and she couldn’t get my name right I almost got irritated. It was from school; Choriço had fallen and hit his chin. I asked if he was bleeding and the answer was yes and he will probably need stitching. It was that last part that upset me.

I quickly called a friend of mine whose son is a classmate of Choriço. Only that yesterday she hadn’t taken him to school. She quickly took me to school where little Choriço was waiting. He started crying when I came and was bleeding a little. The cut wasn’t very deep, but deep enough to need stitching. So I took him to the local health center and then off to the hospital. Amazingly we were attended to quickly. He needed four stitches. As the doctor was doing her job I held his arms and looked the other way talking about Christmas and Transformers.

As the doctor applied the anastetic he screamed, but the pain was over in an instant and he got so quiet that I was afraid something had happend and had to ask if he was OK. A quick look and he was.

It was a scary experience, not as scary as the finger one, but surely something I will remeber.. and he as well…