A smashing end to the holiday weekend

Literally, a smashing end to it.

Let me give you the highlights of the previous days first. Emma has reactive airway disease and as of today, she's still trying to hack up a lung.

We found out the hard way that our dogs get car sick, or one of them does. Hard to say. But there was poop and puke galore 3 times, as we had 3 car trips to make with them.

Other than those two things, the weekend was just grand. Much turkey and dressing and family and all was good.

We got started dragging out the Xmas stuff today, got the tree up. Then we decided to take a break. I wanted to go to yoga and Bill and the kids wanted to swim.

After yoga I went to tell them it was time to get out of the pool. Sam went to jump in one more time and did this odd spin while he was in the air that had him facing the side of the pool. And he smashed his chin on the side as he went in the water.

I yanked him out before it started bleeding, but before the lifeguards could get the first aid kit, he was covered neck to toes in blood, with a trail of drips around the edge of the pool. Got it staunched and slapped a butterfly and a bandaid on it, but the lifeguard could see that it wasn't closed. So off to the ER we went.

3.5 hours later, he has 5 stitches in his chin. It is about 1.5 in long and it was open nearly 1/4 of an inch. I'm pretty sure I could see the fatty tissue layer. Ew.

It took three people to hold him down for the lidocaine and the stitching. The only good thing is that he completely exhausted himself and he conked out shortly after we got home.

I need a drink.