The Nose Story...

As stated in an earlier post, we ran out of water 2 days before the city would turn it on again. Matt and I decided that we would all go out for dinner that night so we didn't have a yucky kitchen for 2 days. We loaded up in a taxi and headed to a local restaurant with these place mats...


After leaving the restaurant with hysterical place mats we decided that we should stop by a local store (called a doukan) to get a few bottles of water for drinking. The kids and I waited in the taxi while Matt ran into get the water. I was looking down and suddenly Madison screamed, "Daddy is hurt and is bleeding!" I looked over to see Matt doubled over and blood gushing from his nose. I jumped out of the taxi and told the kids to wait there. Thank goodness for Meredith who can comfort and mother Madison and Matthew Ray..they were crying and concerned.:(

Matt ran smack dab into a VERY CLEAN glass door! He never saw it! After getting the bleeding under control and paying for the water we decided to go home and assess his nose to see if it may be broken. Matt was in pretty good spirits and seemed to not be in that much pain but his nose was crooked and swelling fast.
We decided to go have it x-rayed just to make sure. X-ray's showed he had broken it in THREE places! Since we had no water at home and he didn't want us all to have to come back to the hospital dirty the next day, Matt told the plastic surgeon, Dr. Mo, to go ahead and set it while he was awake....
Dr. Mo did a great job on a very painful procedure.
Here's Matt at home afterward on pain meds :)....
The next day we had a very scary moment when Matt passed out and seized in the kitchen. After speaking with the doctor it was determined that it was a vagal reaction to an injury like this. We are so thankful that he is recovering quickly and will have a straight nose once again...in sha Allah..