Drew and Garrett were out playing with their neighborhood buddies, riding bikes and pulling wagons around the cul-de-sac. Drew took a sharp turn a little too quickly and fell off his bike. I ran to him quickly and was immediately covered with blood. Trey ran inside for some rags and ice while I put Drew in the car. His chin had hit the pavement and split open about 1/3 of an inch deep- OUCH! He was of course very upset. Trey drove us to the urgent care while I held a rag on his chin. Luckily, the neighbors offered to watch Garrett.
When we arrived, we waited in the waiting room for a short time and then had hit temperature, blood pressure, and weight checked. Drew spit out a couple pieces of chipped enamel from his teeth as well. As we waited for a physician, I heard the PA outside ask "Didn't I just see this kid?"
Because of the depth of his cut, they were unable to use skin glue. Stitches were the only option. They placed his arms behind his back inside a pillow case and wrapped him in a blanket. He layed back with worry and cried as they injected the wound with a syringe full of numbing medicine about a dozen times. It felt like it lasted forever. After he had been numbed, they placed a surgical paper over his face with a hole in it around the wound. They cleaned the cut up with iodine and proceeded to stitch him up. Poor baby! He was so tired after a big week, so scared, and so immobilized. We both cried. The PA had difficulty with the scissors, and it seemed like the procedure took forever. At one point Drew was very still and very quiet- we thought he had fallen asleep. A minute later he asked if someone would turn on the lights!
After 6 stitches, lots of tears from both Drew and Kelli, we were done. He looked like Santa Claus in the end with his large white bandage.
So for Drew, that makes one broken leg, one glued eye-brow, 3 tooth chipping incidents, and now a stitched chin. Guess it will make a good show-and-tell story at school this week.
1 comment:
oh goodness!!!!!!!!!!
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