The bad news:
They cut the Boyo's clothes off in the ambulance. Of course they did. He was injured and they needed to get at every part of his body FAST. The casualties? a cheap suit (yes, he wears a suit to the "formal" fraternity parties) and these:
The Fraternity Flag socks. I was prepared for this. After he told me they cut his clothes off, I wondered if he had been wearing them. I steeled myself for the possibility that the labor of my love may have been cut off and discarded, and it's sad to think of the scissors slicing through all those neat hand-wrought stiches.
The good news:
He was wearing his fraternity flag socks, hand knit by his mommy, to a formal fraternity party. Here's a hint to all you muggles out there: A knitter always wants to know that handknitted gifts are being used by their recipients. If you wear out a pair of hand knit socks it means they were worth knitting because you loved them enough to wear them a lot. That you wore them out is music to a knitter's ears and we would gladly knit you another pair.
More good news:
He is mending. Cranky, but mending. And surrounded by friends who really care about him. Of course, our first instinct was to fly to his side. We are, after all, his parents. But, oh my! it's expensive to fly at this time of year and there is so much going on here at home. For the time being, we are letting his surrogate family do its job. And it seems they are doing it very well. He is likely to have a second surgery next week. We've done a little online research on the Orthopaedische Universitaetsklinik Heidelberg, and he couldn't be in better hands, medically speaking. So we are breathing a big sigh of relief and counting our blessings.
Now, off to order yarn for another pair of Fraternity Flag Socks. BMFA, here I come!
