Fresh from his near-partial-blinding, Thomas managed to injure himself again a couple of days ago. And of all places, he did it at the swimming pool!
He’s taking swimming lessons for stroke technique, and since the summer is a pretty dead time for lessons, he was the only one in the class. Since he doesn’t have any rest time, they intersperse games with the lesson to let him cool down a bit between laps.
The final activity on Wednesday was to allow him to walk hand-over-hand on a rope suspended above the pool, to see how far he could get. He did this three times, and on the final try made it all the way across the pool. Unfortunately, he also ripped the skin off his palms doing it, leaving big raw popped blisters on each hand.
He wore the pictured mummy wraps for a couple of days, and now we’re just putting Neosporin on them and letting them be exposed to the air.
But the eye looks good; it’s down to a fairly faint healing cut. There will be a scar, but it will be small and faint.