Not many people can say that they broke their nose from the FLU. But folks this is true. We all encountered the flu. Evan first, then Livi, then Mama, and finished with Luke. It was about 8:30 on January 14th. The kids were sitting eating their breakfast and I was doing the dishes. Luke was thinking that after all night of puking that it was finally almost over. He came out of the bathroom and out of no where I watched his knees buckle, he hit the cabinet, banged into the bathroom door, and landed face first on the bathroom tile! SCARY. I ran over and by that time he had already come out of it a bit but our bathroom looked like a crime scene and his nose...well that was a whole different story. Needless to say I knew we were headed to the ER. Luke thought we could just go to the Instacare and have it stitced up and put back in place. The nurse there sent us on our merry way to the ER. So a few hours into the ER we knew we were going to have to meet with an ENT- usually they wait a week to set a broken nose but with the results from the cat scan they said to call them on Monday. We had his nose all stitched up and we were discharged a few hours after our arrival (4 to be exact). I almost passed out myself so the nurse was having me drink some juice and eat some crackers! (So embarassing!!!) Luke was all dressed and ready to go and the nurse promptly told him to undress and he was going in for surgery at 2 PM. We both were a little shocked! It was so bad- even worse when the ENT got in there. The Dr. said the entire left side of his nose was caved in, it was shattered in two places, and there was a lot of blood already behind his septum-which I guess isn't good. Luckily everything went great- he was in recovery for a bit and then they put us in a room. Luke did what he needed to so we could head home and after a long long long day at the hospital, and ER visit, and nose surgery in one day we were tired!!! Poor guy was miserable for the first 4 days. He looks great now and I can't believe his progress and how well his nose actually looks! It was quite the story!
