Friday, May 21, 2004

Lucky, Lucky Boy

Suddenly everything switches to slow motion. You see it coming before it happens, but you have to much distance to cover - bang! It happens in front of you a for a few moments you are helpless and trapped.

Elis and Hopper. Elis playful, Hopper snapful. Elis crawled straight into Hopper's space and Hopper snapped. A claw to the eye. When Hopper snaps you know about it. Often the claws stick in the flesh. It was no different for the little one, only this time they were in his face. To be more precise, the region of his eye. My world died suddenly as time froze and I pictured myself fighting to save Elis' eye.

It gets hazy from there. Maybe two seconds passed, maybe more, hopper still had Elis by the eye. I don't know if I pulled him off or Hopper let go. I looked at Elis, blood all around his eye. Mrs Dio and I almost cried. Seconds passed and I tried to get a now balling Elis to open his eye so we could see the damage.

We located two punctures where the bleeding was coming from. One was on the fleshy bit on the outside of the tear duct, the other at the other side of the eye. Both were one or two millimetres away from his eyeball. Thank the gods of good luck. Millimetres away from a punctured eyeball.

I have a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. I can't imagine what I'd have done if he had lost an eye. I've been upset all night, as has Mrs Dio. I should have acted quicker. We all learnt a lesson tonight. Sometimes being lucky has nothing to do with winning money or being favoured. Sometimes good luck is most important when something like this happens and you don't come off as bad as you potentially could have been. Elis had luck on his side tonight. I'm still seeing it. Lucky boy.

Posted by Dio Bach at 22:08

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