My mama had a mini, bloody accident yesterday around lunchtime. She was cramming all those soda bottles inside our already full freezer when a bottle of Coke Sakto slipped and broke on the tiles. Pieces of broken bottles flew everywhere, one even hit me near the head (I was sitting on the sofa that time, chatting). Thankfully I was quick enough to shield my head with my arm. Mama was hit on the left leg, and got bloody real fast.

Sister 1 got to her first, while I ran to the kitchen to grab some papertowels. I had to scream at my sister to get out of the way and let me stop the bleeding. I can see sister 1 becoming pale at the sight of blood. Anyway, I took hold of Mama’s bleeding leg, placed the papertowels on it and applied pressure. I had to bark a couple of instructions to Sister 1 and Sister 2: get Betadine, basin of water, cottons, gauze, gauze tape, hanky (in lieu of bandage…we have none!). Before I finally dressed up the wound I had to make sure no piece of bottle was inside, so I kinda opened it a bit more just to see. Luckily there was none so I went on dressing it up.

Mama was lucky…her wound was about 5 millimeters away from a vein. It was the same with me when I met the same accident and a piece hit my left foot, less than a centimeter away from a very visible vein.

Easter Sunday tomorrow! Time to rejoice!