Monday, July 20, 2009

Our very first ER trip!

Neither of the girls has given us cause to go there... yet. But tonight Joshy did!

Since he was following Isabel's wonderful example of jumping on furniture and from one piece of furniture to another, he missed. And on his way down in the little space between a table and the arm of the chair, he whacked his eyebrow on the edge of the table. When he just stopped and did a big breath cry (a LONG breath) I knew it wasn't going to be pretty. So I went and got him, and within seconds his face was covered in tear filled blood. So we tried to call daddy, who was at work and not answering his phone (probably in a meeting or something) and ran out the door to the ER. They thought that it would need stitches, but once the doctor cleaned him all up and got a better look, he said that he was pretty sure that they could just glue it back together instead. Helps that it was on his eyebrow, where it's easier to pinch the skin together. So that's what they did. It took me, a male nurse, and the doctor to hold him down while he was all wrapped up as a burrito! He's a strong little guy. But they did get him stuck shut, and then he got a popsicle.

So here's what he looks like now! It looks a whole lot better than it did a few hours ago.

And his new hospital bracelet (he won't let me take it off, he likes it!)

1 comments:

Katie said...

He'll probably get a sweet scar! Chicks dig that stuff ya know, LOL! My brother Kallahan split his forehead on a coffee table when he was little and he had it glued shut too. I had fun sticking stuff to his head for a while as well... haha. Man, I am a great sister.