OUCH!!!!!!!!!!

Ever wonder what a 33-year old architect does on his weekends? Well, it varies. This weekend I got into a bar fight, decided to shave my head, and create a 2" gash in my melon!

Let me explain...




It's actually kind of embarrassing, but I'm not one to be shy. So Friday night I walked into the bathroom and dropped something on the floor, bent over to pick it up, and jerked my head up right into the towel bar. OUCH! Now according to the photos you might think that the towel bar won, but I got to tell you -- I knocked it down with one punch and it did NOT get back up!

So immediately after gouging my melon, I put my hand over the wound. I could feel the liquid oozing thru my palm. I took a brief glance, saw a LOT of blood, and shouted for Kathy -- who was already enjoying her 3rd stage of sleep on the couch. She came running, saw my head, SCREAMED, and ran for a towel. Jade, who was still awake, came sauntering into the bathroom, thinking I was "just faking". At the first sight of blood, she tucked tail and ran! Kathy returned with a towel about 30-seconds later, then had to sit down, then had to lie down. I sat there applying pressure to my scalp, weighing whether-or-not to make the trip to ER.

The thing with head wounds (this is my second): they don't just bleed, the blood sack below your scalp explodes! So there's a lot of blood, initially -- and then it stops.

I phoned Jeff, my buddy across the street who is an EMT and asked him to look at it. I went over to his hosue, we cleaned up the wound and decided not to do stitches, but that a butterfly bandage would suffice. Shaved my head a bit more to make room for the bandages (unfortunately I cannot blame the receding hairline on the wound, rather my ancestors!) Jeff gave it some tenderly EMT lovin' and taped me up. I just removed the bandages this afternoon in time for our final 'Sweat Equity' taping.

What a weekend ride! I wore a hat to church last night because I had a big 'ol bandage covering up the wound....didn't want to field a barrage of questions. Anyone who caught me without the hat definitely gave me second and third looks!

The wound has healed up well. It was more of a gouge than a slice, which is why stitches would not have really helped. Now I just got to let it heal and let my hair grow back!

If you look closely to the new 2" gash you can see the old wound just above it (6 stitches). It looks like when I go to complete the trifecta I should aim for another horiz. wound to complete the "Z". Can you see it? The top scar that is healed combined with the new scar create 2/3's of a capital letter "Z". Almost there.....I'll be like the Zimmer Family Harry Potter: the Boy with the Scar!

So that's how we started the weekend!

We finished the weekend by completing most of our punch list: touch-up paint, adding window hardware, clean-up, closet touches, etc... Now we have just a few little items left to complete the addition. Trim, some hardware, base board. But we're getting there! It's exciting, and we receive high complements from everyone that visits. It's good to be close to the finish line.

I'll have my buddy who is a photographer swing by and snap some better, more prof. shots and get the finals posted up here. Keep checking for the final blog....