My brother-in-law, (A name I won’t say), he was helping me and my brother redo his kitchen floor. The tiles and ply-wood where both gone and only the support beams for the floor where there. He had broken his leg from falling off a roof at his job about 3 weeks ago and he cut his cast off after having it on for 2 weeks because he had to get back to work and it was only that littler bone next to his shin bone. He was walking across the beams which where spaced about 1½ foot apart and he missed his step and landed full force on the corner of a 2×6 with his face and it cut deeply right underneath his eye and tore his right nostril and half his nose was hanging from his face. My brother immediately told him not to touch his face and he got him a clean shirt to put on his face and we drove to the hospital. When we got there we went into the E.R. and a nurse came in and assessed his wounds. They where out of numbing medicine and had to order some and that took a while and the whole time he was waiting all he got was some gauze and saline solution to put on his eye and nose and once the numbing medicine got there, there was only one doctor there because it was late and one thing after another came up. 1st a woman came in with a heart attack, then another woman had an aneurysm and a little boy with diabetes almost went into a coma. The doctor finally got his nose stitched up but another thing came up and he finally came back about an hour later to stitch up his eye. Then they did a CT scan or his face and neck and they found out that his eye socket is broken and so is his nose. Apart of his nose is almost completely unattached and the doctor thinks that it might die, dry up and fall off the tip of his nose. He may or may not have cracked one of his teeth. By the time we all finally left the hospital it was around 4:00 AM. This all happened last night and this morning whenever him and my sister (His wife) came by while he was outside she said that he had asked her to stopped someone where while she was driving and not look at him so he could cry. He thinks he’s ugly now because of the big cut and stitches and he’s really depressed. He’s going through hell right now and I feel so bad for him. I kept calm the whole time and my sister and my brother both almost threw up when they looked at it. I kept eye contact with him the whole time he was being stitched up and didn’t even flinch when I first saw his nose. My brother was saying “Your face is fucked up man! Please don’t touch it, it’s fucked up! Are you OK? Can you walk?” My brother was just freaking him out and I was telling him not to let my brother freak him out and that he’ll be fine and all he’ll have in a few months is a scar. I really want him to feel comfortable around me and I’m trying my best not to treat him any differently and just look at him normally because I know he must feel so horrible right now. I honestly wish that it had been me and not him, I really do because I know this is all a lot for him to handle right now because his own mom didn’t even want to come see him after it happened. I just really wish I could find a way to make him extra happy and not feel insecure about his looks. I’m sorry this rant is so long. It’s just I feel so bad for him…..