a love head wounds for sheer volume!) After whisking him off to the emergency room, I watched (in concealed horror) as the doctor removed the gauze and exposed, not only his wound... but a gash all the way to his skull. Owwwwwwwwwy!One facility-transfer, 4 x-rays, and 1 CT scan later, we finally got around to the business of stitching him up around 1am. Because the wound was so deep, he actually got 3 layers of stitches. 3 at the skull, 7 in the muscle tissue, and 17 on the surface. (That's 27 stitches total!)He was such a trooper! I don't know if I could have held it together nearly so well if he hadn't been so incredibly b
rave! We finally made it home around 3am this morning. One would think he might take it easy today, lounge around, be pampered a bit. Ohhhhhhhh, no! That, of course, would have meant missing a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese- and getting to show off his newly acquired battle scars!
I just can't keep this boy down!
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Whoa- that's a HECK of a laceration!! How did it happen? Did he hit a piece of equipment? Jeez- every mom in the audience here is having sympathy angst... I hope he makes up some good stories about it when he's older. ("yeah- that's from the shark attack the time I was surfing off the coast of australia...")
Oh my. You both deserve medals after that ordeal.
Does he not remember the whole visit to the ER until waking up on the couch post stitches? Or did you take him home first?
Now he needs a PT to commemorate the occasion!
Stacy
oh, no... he wasn't out thaaaat long! In fact, they said he walked (with help) off the mat and to the couch in the lobby. He just doesn't remember, and total it was probably a minute or less.
Thank you all for your thoughts and well wishes- 3 days later and he is doing just fine! I think he was rather excited to go to school today and show off his stitches!
Silly boys!
Wow. I'm impressed. Glad he's better now.
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