Sunday, August 17, 2008

First but probably not the last trip to the ER.

Friday night Jack was taking a bath and getting ready for bed. He hates to get out of the bathtub so I decided to let the water drain and once it was done he would know that it was time to get out. The water was at less than an inch and I stepped literally a foot away from the tub and the dude falls and hits his face on the side of the tub. At first he grabbed his mouth and I thought he might have busted some teeth out but then I saw the gash above his right eye. He realized it was there also and it started gushing blood. I grabbed a towel and pulled him out while applying pressure and screaming for JR to help. We threw a diaper on him and rushed him to the ER. We got to the hospital around 8:45pm and they didn't get us back to a room until 11:00pm. They put this numbing stuff on gauze and taped it to the cut every fifteen minutes and decided to sew him up at 11:35pm. Poor guy finally fell asleep though at 11:30pm and was rudely awoken by the start of his stitches. Personally it was terrible to watch because I don't think he was numbed enough. I didn't watch up close I sat against the wall and I held him right after to calm him down, which was not easy. He was a trooper through the whole thing and of course acts as if nothing has happened. He will get his stitches removed on Thursday and now will have a scar to match his other eye.



Here he is sitting on the counter the next day eating some raw spaghetti (don't ask??) This was just after eating a snack...we usually don't keep his face looking this messy!!