Mistakes

Saturday night, while dropping off a sandwich to a friend in the dorms at Michigan State, my brother tripped, fell backwards and sliced his wrist open on a window. Whether the window was broken already is unknown. We think it was because his elbow doesn't hurt.

So supposedly, while removing his arm from the window, he sliced open his wrist. Mind you, the mass quantity of alcohol in his system didn't help him. Luckily, my other brother and a friend of his were waiting outside the dorm in a car. The friend hadn't had a drink that night and was able to rush him to the hospital.

I posted pictures on my server so that people who don't wish to see them, don't have to.

Open wound photo
Closed wound photo

As for now, the doctors think he sliced a few tendons. He doesn't have feeling in his ring and pinky finger. He also has limited rotational ability in his wrist.

Later this week, he'll most likely be having surgery to reattch the tendons, where hopefully he'll recover mobility. The feeling should return in his fingers. Its common to lose feeling for a few days when anesthesic is applied to tendons.

I'm really worried about him. His major is Turfgrass Management and will be a Superintendent's Assistant at a country club after graduation. Safe to say, hand dexterity is required.

He's lucky he's alive. Had he lost enough blood while in the elevator trying to get back to the car, he could have passed out... alone. Likewise he barely missed slicing the major vein in his wrist. He's really lucky.