Hunter's Adventures with Stitches (Staples)

 

(Sorry blood lovers, I didn't take a picture of all the gore.  This was the best I could do.  This was right before the doctor came in and he was SO SCARED!  Doesn't that break your heart?  I took this with my phone so not the best)

Today Hunter was being a wild boy like he is EVERY other day of the year, when he fell and hit his head on the coffee table.  I have seen this scenario a million times over and over and I always hold my breath and watch for a pool of blood to appear on the head that was just hit.  It never comes.  I find myself thinking how resilient these boys are.  Well, today that exact same scenario happened and instantaneously the pool of blood appeared.  I was a little taken aback as really this happens all of the time.  I actually held myself together as we checked it out, got the blood to stop and even cleaned it up a little bit.  You see I am not that good at blood.  Palmer bit THROUGH his tongue when he was about 2 and I was HYSTERICAL.  I mean like talking gibberish.  I called Josh at work and he couldn't understand a word I said.  Well, this time I held it together and called Josh calmly, figured out what to do and did it.  Big step for me.

  I wasn't sure if it was deep enough to need stitches so I called our wonderful neighbor Catherine, who is a nurse, and after examining the cut she thought it needed to be stitched up.  Poor Hunter was terrified to go to the doctor and get a shot and since I got stitches as a child I thought he would have to as well.  We grabbed some things, including his "Bwankie" and headed to the Instacare (co pay there is $75 as opposed to $250 at the ER...what the heck?  Why is the ER so blasted expensive?  Okay moving on...)  They had a fun movie on and Hunter really did forget that anything was wrong with him.  It had mostly stopped bleeding and he quickly made friends with another little boy there.

  They came out and gave him some numbing cream instead of the shot and he was ready for the staples (I guess head injuries they use staples).  He did pretty well until they got to the stapling part.  He has a huge bruise and I guess they can't numb bruises.  He cried pretty hard.  The really great doctor then gave him a Popsicle and some stickers (and he even grabbed one for his brothers.  Cute huh?)  and he was just fine.

It was definitely a crazy adventure for us.  Hunter was a champ and his mom wasn't a wreck, so we were both feeling pretty good.  On another note, I got my hair done today after WAY too long and am so happy!  Maybe I will be in a few more pictures in the future...maybe.