Sunday May 4th was a beautiful sunny warm day, so we decided to pull out all the bikes including the bike trailer and go for a ride. Keaton and Elie were in the trailer behind Tom and the rest of us were each on our own bike. We rode around the neighborhood through the cul-de-sac's, up the sidewalks, and along the edges of the road. When we came back around to the last stretch towards home Austin announced that Shaustia was beating us. This sent Tom off to try and catch her. He passed her as Austin and I were coming up far behind. The next thing we knew Shaustia was screaming. Her bike was on it's side in the road, and she was clutching her knee in pain. We had no idea what had happened. We rushed to her as fast as we could and found that she had pretty much taken off half her knee when she crashed and you could see her knee cap. She was not wearing a helmet and she was wearing shorts. But somehow she managed to only bang up her left side: her knee very badly and a small scrape and bruise on her hand. We immediately knew we had to take her to the hospital. I took off on my bike and got the car to take her to the emergency room. Some very helpful guys who live in the house that Shaustia crashed at got us some gauze to at least cover the gaping wound so that we didn't have to look at it. I got through traffic as fast as a I could which was quite slow. With Shaustia crying and saying that she was scared and wishing that we could go faster. I carried her into the emergency room which normally would have been a feat since she is almost as tall as me, but with my adrenaline pumping it wasn't hard. We had to wait a few minutes and during that time Tom was able to get there. They eventually came in and numbed her knee, which was the worst part, then they scrubbed it and cleaned it and washed it over and over to try and get all the rocks and dirt out. Can I just say it was all really really gross! When they were done cleaning they put a drain in so that if it gets infected it has somewhere to come out at, and put in just 3 stitches so that her body would have as little amount of foreign objects in it as possible. She was so very brave the whole time. Yes she cried, but who can blame her. She did not get hysterical or scream while we were at the emergency room and she took the pain well. I was so proud of our girl! It took only 2 hours at the e.r. which is actually a record since it took 4 when I had to go last year. Tom rushed Keaton, Austin and Elie to our friend Holly's house before coming to the hospital. She is such a life saver, sweetheart, and great friend. While she was watching our children her husband had to take one of their sons into the urgent care and found he had an ear infection. I will forever be grateful to her and be in her debt, Thank you so much Holly. Now Shaustia's knee is wrapped in two 4 inch ace bandages to help keep it as straight as possible and tomorrow morning we go back in to have the drain taken out and we'll see what they do with it then. She has been such a trooper, this morning I tried to talk her out of going to school but she wanted to go. I ended up going to get her with only about and hour left of school, but I can't believe she lasted that long. She is very concerned about soccer and dance though. We will just have to wait and see how she is doing when the games and recital come. We found out during the course of the visit to the e.r. that she had been trying to get onto the road and there was a mailbox which scared her and then a patch of gravel her wheel slipped on and the edge of the driveway that her wheel must have caught on. Below is a picture of Shaustia's knee that we took after it had been cleaned out:
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