03 February 2009

Expensive ER Visit

The good news is that G is a perfectly healthy kid. He weighs a whopping 135 pounds and is six feet tall. His thumb is not broken, but was very purple and swollen, necessitating a trip to the ER. The bad news is that someone called him a faggot one too many times. I wonder what price Mom and Dad are going to be paying here for his defending his honour...? I'm guessing about $2,000 because of the high-tech splint and the fact that an x-ray was taken.

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  1. That is horrible. I think the other kid deserved it! I hope his thumb heals well.

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  2. Poor kid. Hope he got the other guy good! Wow that is an expensive visit!

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  3. Good job, G!

    Every boy has to be in a fight or two sometime! :-)

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  4. Yikes! Does this kid like school? I have a particular dislike of that particular term because I know how it originated & the images it conjures up spin my head out really badly. No~one should be called that. Ever.

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  5. Memories *tear drop*

    This reminds me of all the times I was called "dyke" at school. Oh, public school, what a beautiful eutopia.

    I dared to have a short haircut. Aim for the nose, G.

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  6. Oh yeah, and by the way, I can't spell utopia.

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  7. Ouch, I'll bet that hurt. Sure hope the other guy has some damage. Name-calling, especially those kind of names, is so darn hurtful.

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  8. Wow! He must have gotten him good! I wonder what the other kid looks like. I'm sorry he had to go through that, but it's good to know that he can stand up for himself, isn't it?

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  9. Thanks for all the loving comments!

    And Ganeida, I really struggled about whether to post the whole word or not. But then I thought about the fact that "child molestation" doesn't get star blanks in the news. Why?

    Both words conjure horrible images to the mind. But then I blank out letters to words that rhyme with "duck" because I'm a hypocrite. I don't know.

    I hope that the people who read my blog just hear my heart on that.

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  10. I thought there was a "zero tolerance policy" on those kinds of words in public schools. Lame. Lame. Lame.

    Ugh.

    ...

    [burns me up]

    ...

    Moving on before I say something not very nice. May this whole situation work out well in the end. Hang in there!

    ~Luke

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  11. I tell you I went through the fighting with Billy, kids picked on him because he was so much smaller than they were and he was a year older. He had such a temper that if they said something he was right in there scrapping with them. God Love you sweetheart having to go through stuff that you shouldn't have to.
    Hugs,

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  12. Ouch! Glad it wasn't more serious.

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