Exactly three months ago Sunday, shortly after ski season started, I got a phone call at noon. “I broke my face,” Sam said. He had landed short when he jumped a road, and his knee hit his lip. He looked like he had a cleft palate.
Bob picked him up at the ski area, and I met them at the hospital. I realized that my child had become an autonomous individual when the doctor came in and my sixteen year old took charge. “I’m Sam,” he said, and shook the doctor’s hand. “Take your time with this, Doc, ’cause I have all day.”
He went home with seventeen stitches in three layers. I hit my face with a ski last spring and had twenty-eight stitches, so we knew the naturopathic drill of vitamins and later massage with castor oil . Three months later you can see that his scar will disappear in time.
My stitches came out exactly one year ago (Sam took my scar picture and I took his) and it’s amazing to me that you can’t tell which cheek the ski went through (left on the photo).
I don’t know if time heals all wounds, but certainly castor oil can take care of the scars.
That’s a neat tip!! I’ve never heard that one before. With an almost-4-yr old who’s a disaster in the making, this will be a good one to keep in mind.
It’s so great to see you! So many bloggers (myself included) rarely ever show their faces ~ often because they’re the ones taking all the pictures ~ so it’s kind of like a treat to see someone’s “secret identity” revealed!!
Now where is the story of your stitches?
Dear mp, Since I started blogging months after, it never really came up. Alice
The power of healing is an amazing thing. Rock on young Sam!