For those of you who tried to listen in to Craig's radio station on-line...let me explain to you how his Friday night evolved into quite the different and unexpected scenario.
Four of us were tossing the bee around on the b-ball court next to Kleiner. IT was probably 8:15 or 8:30 and Craig had to go meet Trazy at about 9:45 to go on the air for his big radio debut. Well, as we're tossing it back and forth, Craig manages to launch one over this wall and next to the trash cans behind Kleiner. Jenny and Keith go to look for it, I gather my things and go help them as well. We find the frisbee, and as I come around the corner I see Craig sitting on the curb holding his foot. I figure he's just picking something off of it. Well...it was a little more complicated than that.
I suppose that while we were back there looking, Craig started jogging over to come help us and as he's running, his foot gets caught on this metal runner dividing the grass from the wood chips and he slices his middle toe open. There's blood everywhere, all over the sidewalk. Somehow we get him inside without spilling much blood all over the place. He puts his foot in the show and it's just filling up with blood. He runs the shower to wash some of it down the drain. We decide he needs to go to the hospital. After he slows the bleeding some of course. We fail to clean out the shower completely, work as a team, and get him down to the hospital with his foot wrapped in a towel, plastic bags, and sitting in a box as he's sitting in my car. We drop him off at emergency, Keith goes in while Jenny and I go park the car.
We are in this room, which Craig gets into right away, and we wait for three hours for someone to finally stich him up. He has 5 stiches in his middle toe now.
I'd just like to praise God right now that this was all that happened to Craig. Looking at that sharp metal piece it just seems like so much more could have happened. I also want to praise Him for awesome friends who help me and Craig out in times of minute panic. We all worked together to get him there in a timely fashion and it was nice to always have someone with me. I know this wasn't life threatening or that big of a deal, but I have never been in a hospital emergency room before. I haven't even driven someone to the emergency room before. So all of this was very new and very strange for me. I'm just glad we were there for something so small. I saw this woman walking by while we were there just crying...and ya know it was just a reminder that although this whole ordeal sort of freaked me out, we were really well off compared to a lot of the other people there. I just could not imagine working in a place like that day in and day out seeing so many different ranges of emergencies in there. It's sort of frightening. God has really chosen some special people to work in a place like that.