8 stitches later

David played soccer on Saturday afternoon and I took the kids down when I thought he would be finished. They continued to play for another 20 minutes and said "next goal wins". David went after a ball against another player (who was wearing cleats) and the guy kicked David and split his shin open. It was pretty deep and David was in a lot of pain. We took him to the general hospital and we waited for about an hour and knew it would be quite some time before he was seen. The general hospital is quite primitive. The only way I can explain it is an unorganized warehouse of medical supplies. We called the campus on-call nurse and explained our situation. We took him to the campus and the nurse attended to him quickly and the doctor showed up about 20 minutes later and sewed up David. The wound was nearly 3 inches long and very deep. He got 1 internal stitch and 7 external. Though he has been in a lot of pain, he doesn't complain much and is trying to walk around, go to class, play with the kids, etc. He has never gotten stitches before so why not the 1st time be in Grenada? He will have a nice scar in about 2 weeks.