I lived in our old house for almost 5 years and we never had any mis hapes at all. I don't know if it was because our house was just so small that the boys had no room to get in trouble or to get hurt, but regardless, we have lived in our new house for only three weeks and we have had numerous accidents and near traumas. Stitches being one of them. So here is Eli in all his glory showing off his wonderful stitches. He was my little trooper and he was so brave. So more to come later on some of the other almost accidents that we have had the past little bit, and also more to come on our new house. But for now, I will just share our first experience to the insta care and our first emergency experience with Eli. So on February 3rd, Eli had a piece of Ham and Lilly thought that she wanted some as well. So Eli thought it would be a funny game to fun around the table and play keep away from Lilly. All was fine and dandy until he tripped and hit his head on the corner of the Kennel. He started screaming and when he stood up with his hands to his forehead and the blood was dripping down his arms, needless to say, I was more then a little bit scared. I was pretty worried that there was going to be serious head wound underneath all the blood, but...... not so much. Once we did finally get it all cleaned up and get him to calm down, we realized that the cut itself was only about 1/2 inch long but super super super deep. And we all know that head wounds bleed way more then they need to which is why I think I was so scared, but we did get it all taken care of. So we got him cleaned up and Matt was suppose to be leaving for work, but after a quick phone call to his boss, we were good to go for him to help me take the boys into the hospital. We were just going to head into the emergency room for a few stitches to help prevent Eli from having a huge hole in his head, but when we called his nurse at his pediatrician office, she recommended going to the insta care right up the road from us. I was glad that we decided to give her a call instead of just heading into town. So a few dollars later, and lots of scared tears later, and he got to show off his cool stitches and now, he can show of his cool scar. I don't know how mothers of babies who have lots of problems handle it. I was hurting so bad on the inside just watching him be pinned down and hurting a little ( I realize it was not a lot, but he was so scared and there was very little I could actually do for him, but hold his hand and keep telling him what the doctor was doing to him) My heart ached for him. But we were strong and just kept making super hero jokes so that he thought everything was okay and that he was doing awesome. Here are just a few pictures to show from our experience. I didn't have the camera so these were just taken with the phone. Nothing great, but at least they are something.
This is when it started to get tough. Because of how little he is they had to put him in a Papoose board, which was basically a straight jacket for kids. He had his arms strapped down and then they had to wrap his whole body up so her really couldn't move at all. That was really hard to watch, because that alone scared him as much as anything. He hated not having any control and not being able to see what was going on. They covered all of his face and everything with this cloth so there was just this little hole were the stitches were actually going.
And this is a picture of my brave little boy after they are all done and he is all fixed up. They found him a cool super hero bandaide and he was good to go. All smiles for the most part.
And here are just a few picture of him showing them off. He actually thought they were pretty cool after he talked to his Uncle Justin and his Aunt Heather they all told him how they have had stitches and how girls think that scars are cool. Then he was all good to go. So there you go folks. Our first semi serious emergency experience and it all when down okay.
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