Updated Video (new tooth):
If you hang around our family long enough
you soon realize that Sam is the one that continually pushes the envelope. He is an extremely active kid with a pain tolerance that has always amazed us. By age two, he had received stitches 3 times - eyebrow, chin, side of head. So when it had been seven years without a trip to urgent care I knew we were on borrowed time.
Don't get me wrong, the kid has had some really bad injuries during those seven years, but nothing we couldn't take care of with some Peroxide, gauze, Neosporin, lots of Band-aids and a few prayers.
Last Tuesday, May 19th, Sam wrecked his bike into a parked car, slamming his mouth into the back fin. He was halfway around the neighborhood block and nobody saw it happen. A nice lady heard his screams and ran outside to find him a complete bloody mess. She walked Sam to our house, in through the front door and out the back door to find Tim working in the backyard. (I was at work.) Sam had so much blood coming from his mouth that Tim thought he would have to go to the Emergency Room. After rinsing out his mouth, Tim saw that his front tooth was broken in half and the gums above it were very bruised.
The crazy part happened when (no...it hasn't even gotten crazy yet) Alec, casually riding his bike around the block, comes around the corner and finds Sam's abandoned bike lying in the middle of the road with his retainer tossed to the side and blood everywhere. Alec immediately thought Sam had been kidnapped or murdered or both! (We've really got to start monitering how much violence Alec watches on tv.) Tim said Alec came running into the house holding Sam's retainer and screaming his name. I'm not sure who was traumatized more -- Sam or Alec!
The next morning, our dentist - Dr. Graf - said after the lips and gums heal, he can use the missing part of the tooth to try to put it back together seamlessly. Yep, we actually found the half-tooth laying in the street.
And here's the other crazy part --
Sam's tooth will cost $270 to fix.
The college girl's car with the scratch on the fin will cost...
...wait for it...
...wait for it...
$937!!!
The best part of this whole story is Sam's attitude toward his broken tooth. We thought he was going to be so embarrassed to go to school and face his classmates with a broken tooth. (He doesn't get it fixed for two weeks.) But actually, Sam could care less about his tooth. He doesn't look forward to the pain of getting it fixed, but when I asked him if he was embarrassed by it, he said, "No. Who cares?!"
That's Sam for ya. He acts before he thinks, talks before he thinks, jumps before he thinks.....
and doesn't care a bit what you think about that.
I think I love that about him!
