Bag-Balm & Vet Wrap

My son has finally done it.  I’ve told him & told him to stop it before something gets broke.  & what happens?  He breaks his cousin.  Let me explain.  Sunday night at youth group Lil’Man and his cousin Mr. Politian (he tries to talk his way into doing what he wants- quite annoying!) were wrestling upstairs while the adults were talking in the living room.  Apparently Mr. Politian was going in for a body punch and Lil’Man decided to block it with his foot.  Well foot made contact with finger (ring man on the right hand) and the finger lost.  Surprisingly Mr. Politian didn’t shed a tear.  He came downstairs holding his bad finger in his other hand and made a few wincing sounds.  His mom (my sil) asked him what was wrong- she had just gotten back from driving other kids home & had JUST sat down for the first time in hours.    Mr. Politian promptly says, “Lil’Man kicked my finger”.  This statement made me look up from the Sunday Ad Flyers!  Lil’Man can have quite the temper sometimes- takes after his dad.  Mr. Politian quickly adds ” it was an accident we were wrestling”, he didn’t want Lil’Man to get in trouble.  So Mr. Politian brings his sore hand over to his mom for a look-see.  Yep- definitely broken, no doubt about it.  So then he has to show his dad (my oldest brother), who pushes & pokes at it.  Then he shows me.  I ask him if he can make a fist.  He tells me that Lil’Man already asked him that & he could not do it.    Hmm, guess Lil’Man was trying to cover his butt before everyone knew that he broke his cousin!   So off to the ER goes Mr. Politian and his mom, it’s about 8pm at this time; they got home around 10:30pm.  Not bad for a trip to the ER that included X-rays.   A cousin of Ol’Man’s (The Horse Shoer) was there too, he fixes everything with Bag-balm & vet wrap.  He offered to tape up Mr. Politian’s finger to the good ones.  But for some reason, they all wanted his finger to heal straight so the declined the offer!    Poor Mrs Horse Shoer, if they ever have kids she just might come home one day to find her little one covered in vet-wrap and Bag-balm!