Currently Listening Top of My Lungs By Craig & Dean Phillips see related

I hate trimming hedges. I wish we could have a lawn care business without doing hedges, but people expect it, so we have to deliver. For a long time I have put off buying a really good, commercial grade hedge trimmer, because it's like an admission that I'm going to be trimming more hedges....that and the fact that they cost $300.

So last Monday I finally broke down and a gas-powered Echo hedge trimmer. Tuesday I was doing my very FIRST job with them and the very sharp blades brushed up to my jeans. I hardly felt anything, but made a mental note to be careful, because I could have hurt myself if I bumped into my leg.

Then I noticed my new work jeans were cut at the knee. Then I noticed a twinge of pain. Then I noticed the blood. Lots of it. By the time I got my pant leg pulled up I had a stream of blood running down my leg and into my sock. "Great," I thought. I went to get a bandage and then realized just how deep the cut was. So, pulling a trailer, I had to drive the truck back to my parents house, shifting with my right hand, holding the gash closed with my left and steering with....Um, my chin? I'm still not sure how I did that. lol

To make along story short, a couple of hours later I had nine stitches in my knee. *sigh* Did I mention I really hate trimming hedges?

At the dr's office I was sitting up watching the doctor start the second stitch when I started feeling bad. Not sure why, but I started getting really hot. I wanted to keep watching, but I figured I better sit back....and then.....

Yep, I looked kinda like that. lol....I woke up to calls of "JC, are you with us?" It was pretty funny. Jennifer was kind enough to drive me up there and she just about had a heart attack when I passed out. She started crying. Poor thing.

But there some good news. I went to a local medical center and they gave me a tetanus shot, stitches, unlimited follow up visits and removal of the stitches (that will happen Friday) for only $177. Thank the Lord for that!

That night I went to visit my friend, OL, who is in the hospital and his plight quickly made me stop thinking about my knee. He was hit by a drunk driver (whose passenger died) last weekend and he's in bad shape. He had a broken ankle, broken foot, broken arm in three places, broken collar bone, a couple of broken ribs and he's going to have to have a hip replacement, too...That's just what I can remember. Amazingly there were NO internal injuries! If you guys think about it, please be in prayer for OL, because he is in a lot of pain...

Sorry I don't have to cover more about all the crazy things going on around here lately. I have finals tomorrow at school, so you can be praying for me!

Quote of the day: "Sorrow is the garden in which God grows our blessings." - Woodrow Kroll