This story actually began last Labor Day. Anthony knocked out 3/4 of both of Zeke's permanent front teeth, all the way to the nerve. I'm sure I posted the story somewhere on here. They were temporarily fixed. This past Thursday, the cap part of one of the teeth broke off.
Steve and I were at Riley's baseball game and Uncle Shane came by the house and then went and got some Ora-Gel for Zeke. He told Zeke to just use a little bit and then give it to mom. Fast-forward to the following day: I saw the tube sticking out of Zeke's pocket at breakfast. I told him to use a little bit and then go put it in his room. I watched him go upstairs to his room but I forgot to check his pockets as he went out the door. My mistake. I dropped Zeke and Anthony off at The Club (I know, I said I wasn't going to take them there anymore, but it was a necessity. A mistake, but I thought it was a necessity at the time.)
When I picked them up that afternoon, I was on the phone so I sent Riley in to get them. When Riley came back out with Anthony, Riley said that something had happened to Zeke. When I asked him what, he said he didn't know, just that he thought someone had punched Zeke in the face. I asked if The Club gave him an incident report. Riley said they didn't give him anything.
About that time Zeke walked around the corner. His right cheek, upper lip and nose were all so swelled up that he could barely talk.
The Club either hadn't noticed or didn't think it was important enough to say anything. If I wasn't so immediately concerned about Zeke, I would have gone back in and given them a piece of my mind. His throat could have closed up from the swelling!!!
My kids were sure that someone had punched him in the face but Zeke refused to talk about it, which is unusual for Zeke. He's always willing to talk about what other's do, just not what he has done. Then I remembered that I hadn't made sure the Ora-Gel was put away. I realized that he probably had it with him and when I asked him about it, he wouldn't say. So I check his pockets and found the tube, now completely empty. I realized that he had basically sucked out the entire contents of the tube and now the entire area of his face was numb. I just shook my head.
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