You never wake up in the morning and think, "I'd like to spend a few hours at the emergency room tonight." It's been happening more often than I prefer lately.
Last night, Spencer was dashing across the room and tripped on his bunkbed ladder, smashing his face into a corner of his desk. After staunching the blood for a while, I saw there was a hole right through the corner of his lip. He went into shock and was white and shaking; luckily our home teacher Matt happened to be there for dinner and helped Greg give him a priesthood blessing. I took him around the corner to a friend for his professional opinion (thanks, CJ!), which was that he definitely needed stitches, especially since the hole went all the way through.
So, after a fruitless trip to the Urgent Care Center (note: don't bother to go to the Urgent Care for facial wounds that need stitches - they won't do them!), we went to Cook's Children's which was PACKED. After a few hours we were able to get in and get Spencer fixed up with 8 stitches. He was such a trooper! He held perfectly still the whole time.
So, he'll have to be on a soft foods diet for a few days, but they did a great job and it looks like it will heal up nicely. It should go well with his forehead scar (chicks dig scars, right?). (:
Last night, Spencer was dashing across the room and tripped on his bunkbed ladder, smashing his face into a corner of his desk. After staunching the blood for a while, I saw there was a hole right through the corner of his lip. He went into shock and was white and shaking; luckily our home teacher Matt happened to be there for dinner and helped Greg give him a priesthood blessing. I took him around the corner to a friend for his professional opinion (thanks, CJ!), which was that he definitely needed stitches, especially since the hole went all the way through.
So, after a fruitless trip to the Urgent Care Center (note: don't bother to go to the Urgent Care for facial wounds that need stitches - they won't do them!), we went to Cook's Children's which was PACKED. After a few hours we were able to get in and get Spencer fixed up with 8 stitches. He was such a trooper! He held perfectly still the whole time.
So, he'll have to be on a soft foods diet for a few days, but they did a great job and it looks like it will heal up nicely. It should go well with his forehead scar (chicks dig scars, right?). (:
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Last month a stack of firewood fell on christopher's lip and split it really bad right below his nose.
We chose not to get it stitched up, but it has left a little nasty red looking scar.
Sometimes over the years, such scars will disappear! Maybe Colin's will too?