The year was 2001 and was our first day in Negril and after a whole day at the pool bar it was time to go back to the room to and get ready for dinner. My wife got out of her wet suit first and was heading out to the balcony to hang it up. on her way out she put her beer down on the likkle table with the glass top that was right in front of the door. i came out of the bathroom with my wet suit in hand heading out to hang it up. Just as i got to the door i stepped in a puddle of water left by her bathing suit I felt my feet going out from under me. I bumped the table the beer bottle fell and smashed as the table started falling over i took one more step to try and save the glass top and stepped right on the broken bottle. by the time she came in it had looked like a murder scene, blood everywhere. I fell back onto the bed and asked her to look and see if there was any glass stuck in my foot. WELL! one look at my foot and she goes down screaming like she was hit by Muhammad Ali. Out to the balcony she goes losing all that precious Red Stripe that took her all day to consume and 15 seconds to get rid of. I sat up on the bed and called reception and informed them what had happened. what seemed like forever Security and Housekeeping showed up and right away called for the nurse. housekeeping later told me she used 22 towels to soak up the blood on the floor. The nurse arrived, took one look at my foot and called for the Dr. In the meantime i asked the nurse to check on my wife(still hiding on the balcony hates the site of blood) the Nurse came back in and informed Housekeeping that there was a clean-up needed on the balcony. I asked if there was any chance of getting something to eat as I was starving security said no problem and came back with two plates of jerk chicken. He took a plate out on the balcony to my wife... and there it goes again...yup more dam Red Stripe wasted. The Dr. arrived told me to get on my belly took one look at my foot and said Mon dis gonna hurt. after he got all the glass out and cleaned it up and a tetanus shot where the sun don't shine it was time for the freezing. Keep in mind i'm still eating my chicken when I hear him ask are you ready? I wish I had a bullet to chomp down on but the next best thing was the biggest bone on the plate. I have never felt pain like that before as he stuck the needle in the cut three times that chicken bone did not stand a chance snapped it in two along with knocking out a filling in my back tooth. Well 22 stitches later a massive bandage wrapped on my foot a sore tooth and $422.00 later Dr. had a credit card swipe in his bag found that hilarious. $10 tip for Security $25 for the housekeeper considering all she had to clean up and then sat with my wife while all this was going on.
The Dr. gave my wife some Gravol and before you knew it every body was gone. Every morning 9am sharp I was first in line at the Nurse's office to have the bandage changed. Next night at the bonfire i was dancing on the beach.
