Almost Made it

There were so many options for titles of the post...

"Living With A Meunier"
"Rick Got Beat Up By A Nine Year Old Girl"
"Softball 1 - Rick 0"
"Like Father Like Son"
"Rick's An Idiot"...oh wait, maybe not that one.

I went with "Almost Made It" because we almost made it all year without Rick going to the ER. But we didn't. We spent last night in not 1 but 2 ER's.

Millie and Rick were out in the batting cage. Rick was pitching a few balls to Millie to bat after she worked on her pitching. Now, we have a screen that you are supposed to pitch from behind so that the pitcher doesn't get hit by the ball. Rick apparently thought he didn't need to use this. Millie hit a hard fast one right at him and he didn't react fast enough and took it right in the face. Of course, I didn't know any of this was happening so all I heard was Rick coming in the house saying "let's go" and Millie was crying. He said "We need to go to the hospital!" I was actually relieved that Millie was ok but quickly realized we still needed to move quick. The kids quickly got in the car, I grabbed a roll of paper towels for Rick and called my mom to tell her to meet me at the end of her road because I was pitching the kids out the door for her.

We went to the hospital in New Albany. The waiting room was packed and looked like a homeless shelter. They said it would be at least 2 hours before anyone looked at him or even checked him in. I called my personal on call nurse, Cammie, and asked if we should stay at Floyd or go to Louisville. I knew she would say go to Louisville but I wasn't sure which one. Since she is Rick's boss's wife they have the same insurance as Rick so I was hoping that it would be in network, I guess we will find out. She gave me directions and we bailed on the homeless shelter/ER and headed across the river. Of course there was a wreck on 64 and we sat but fortunately it was only for about 15 minutes or so. When we got to Jewish East, they told us it would be a few minutes and they would check him in. After about 15 minutes they called him back, did triage and sent him to a room. Good call Cammie!

At the hospital

They did 3 X-rays and we discovered it was not broken, we were both shocked. We made it home around 11:30. Mom and dad had brought the kids over to take care of the animals and thankfully, Dad thought to fire up the stove. They took them back to their house to spend the night. Rick didn't sleep well but all in all, it's not too bad today. He's joking around and it took some convincing but Millie now understands it was not her fault. Mom said Millie was very upset all night and kept saying she didn't understand how it wasn't her fault. But she's ok now. Rick told her that she obviously is not hitting hard enough if she didn't even brake his nose.

Next Day

The shop is a bit of a mess and looks like someone was murdered. Hopefully it doesn't stain too bad.

Sitting in the hospital thinking of the date...December 30th. Dang Rick, you haven't even been to the doctor this year and you pick one of the last days of the year to run up a big bill, couldn't wait until after the first so it went on next year's deductible. So since he has a $6000 deductible, I guess we will be paying this whole bill. Ouch.