Costco - Take 2

The day after our little car accident, Jeff and I did a 3 hour walking food tour near the heart of Denver.  For those of you who live in a big city, I highly recommend this.  We went to some holes-in-the-wall shops and enjoyed some great food.  I ate muscles for the first time and this is something I would have never ordered on my own.

The kids were with the daughter of some new, dear friends we have made (I can't even begin to express how I have longed to have someone like Tara, the wife, in my life).  We have fallen head over heels in love with this entire family and are super excited that they are planning on going to the DR with us this summer.  In fact, Mikaela, the daughter and our new babysitter, has been giving Case weekly Spanish lessons and he is eating it up.

Anyway, back to my story.  The kids were home with Mikaela and I texted to say we were on our way home.  Mikaela wrote back and said all was well, but Case had banged his finger and was just laying around not wanting to do anything.  I told her not to worry, he can sometimes "milk" any sort of wound he gets.

We got home and I drove Mikaela home.  On my way home, I called Jeff and asked if we should try going to Costco again because there were some things we needed for a dinner party we were hosting in a couple of days.  We decided we'd go as soon as I got home.

I left the car running in the driveway and came in to help gather the kids.  Jeff said, "Have you looked at Case's finger?"  I hadn't but when I peeked through the band aids I saw it looked pretty nasty.  We told Case we needed to take the band aids off and look a little closer.  He started crying and that was truly the most painful thing for him for all that happened in the next three hours.

We took the band aids off and saw that his finger was cut open pretty badly and was still bleeding heavily 2-3 hours after the incident had occurred (he had been playing with my workout weights and put them behind his back and smashed his finger in between).

We decided he probably needed stitches.  So, instead of going to Costco, we spent the next three hours in Urgent Care at Children's hospital (which we have recently found out due to other bills that it costs $350+ just to walk in the doors so we've decided to "shop around" for our next Urgent Care visit).

They took x-rays of Case's finger and discovered a broken bone in the tip of his finger and that he would need stitches.  Four stitches later, lots of gauze and bandages, we were on our merry way.  Case was a trooper and so brave and said, "I can't wait to go to school and show my friends my finger."