Injury at Cornfest

Some friends of ours have an event every year at their house: CORNFEST! Cindi's family grows corn and when it is ready, Barry drives to New Mexico to pick up the corn (by the truckload). We then recieve "the email" that cornfest is less than 48 hours away. They cookout hamburgers and the night is spent shucking and eating fresh corn.

Monday night was cornfest. We were having a nice evening with our friends (there were about 70 people there). I walked in the kitchen to check on the kids who were at a kiddie table next to the buffet line. Todd had been helping Cindi move the desserts and was standing at the kitchen sink washing his hands. I didn't think much of it, until my friend Taffy came and told me that she thought I needed to take Todd to the emergency room. She said Todd cut his hand pretty bad.

Todd was helping to move a cake and someone had left a butcher knife on the back of the cake plate. Todd didn't realize the knife was there and when he moved the plate the knife started to fall...Right towards the kids' table. So like any protective parent, he caught the knife with his hands, cutting it very badly! He actually cut in between his pinkie and ring fingers and obviously needed stitches. By the time that I arranged for Taffy to take my kids to her house and we moved around carseats, Todd was being tended to by a nurse, Linda.

Linda and her husband John just came back from the mission field about a month ago. They had been in Africa for over 10 years. She was an ER nurse before they went, and while they were there she was more like a doctor. She offered to glue his hand back together, so that we didn't have to take him to the emergency room for stitches. Which saved us a lot of time and money! I am very thankful that Linda was there and was willing and able to help us out.