And then it's that usual random noise in the line since I am still one of those silly MTN users. At least the lady spared me the Hello-how-are-you-fine-thank-you and got straight to the point: Adrian had an accident. He hit his ...fffshhcrkr... he was bleeding quite ...zzzzfkrrrr... and the nurse recommends he should be ...kkkrchhhh... in a hospital. Oh my god! I'm out of the office in less than a minute and at the school in just 15 more, rushing to the nurse's room, it is closed so I bang on it since this is a life and death situation. Someone yells from the inside "WAAIIT!" Ok, that's not my boy, so I rush up to his classroom and there I see him - sitting and peacefully gluing little snippets of the alphabet on a sheet of paper. Just a plaster on his eyebrow. That's it??? The whole story was bad but then again not so bad. While washing his hands in the bathroom he dodged a move of his friend and hit his head on the edge of the sink. The cut was long and deep enough to have it stitched.
At the Surgey they recommended me not to stitch the wound as it will make it bigger and the stitches will remain visible. Glueing would be much better. Wow, how advanced they are here... they have some super-modern-state-of-the-art-medical-skin-glue. Alright then, let's do it.
When they bring the glue, it looks oddly familiar to me. And yes, it is plain superglue, the type you get for a few thousand Shillings in any second class supermarket down the street. The nurse confirms "yes, we always use this stuff as it is the same like the medical glue, but it is ten times cheaper." They squeeze Adrian's wound together, a few drops of superglue and a a minute later he is out with a new plaster on top of it. That's it?! Amazing, what modern medicine can do these days.
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