Poor Mykl - he managed to belt his finger pretty badly with a hammer yesterday.
We spent a fair chunk of our day waiting around the emergency department, thinking it would need stitching. But after a few consultations & an xray, he got sent home with a referral to return this morning to have surgery to repair the end of his finger. They did wrap his finger up quite nicely before letting him go.
We missed lunch and it was late afternoon before we got to leave the hospital, so we went to a nearby restaurant for an early dinner. M. had his favourite steak, and strangely for him, followed it with dessert, saying he needed to eat now, because it might be his last meal for a while (no eating after midnight for the surgery).
We dropped him off at Nepean Hospital just before 7am, and hopefully will be able to pick him up tonight. No certainty - he's in the queue, but will get bumped down for emergencies. I came back up here to get the kidlets to daycare & school, and am now doing a few things around the house before I go back down to the hospital.
But on the plus side - he did finish what he was working on! The netting around our chook run had fallen down near the gate & he was nailing it back up. He had already put in enough nails to secure it when he had the accident.