When it rains , it pours !!!
Well, well... seems my son is trying to play " catch up " with injuries....He has been injury free for nearly 9 years, until the past few months. Now, I'm talking the hospital type injuries... he's had plenty of regular old scrapes and bruises.Yesterday, he was playing on his friends trampoline ( now THIS is the reason I refuse to have one !! ), and fell and busted his chin wide open. Did he run to his friends Mom ? NO !!! He got on his pocket rocket and came screaming for home. WHy , you ask ? Because he didn't want to cry in front of his friends. He sure made up for THAT once he got home !! I got him calmed down a bit, and then asked him to sit on the couch( he had a towel on his chin by then.. no blood on MY carpets...lol ), so I could get a better look. The minute I saw it, I knew he would need the dreaded stitches. My husband got home about that time, looked at it, and replied.. OH HELL.. HE DOESN'T NEED STITCHES !!!! Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. So now I'M the bad guy !!!LOL !!!
After much debate back and forth, and a kid who, every time the word " stitches " is mentioned, goes into hysterics.. we , well I, make the call to take him in. Husband all the while telling the kid, " Oh, they will probably just put a band aid on it ".. WRONG !!!!
After sitting in the waiting room ( after all.. a cold is so much worse than a kid who is bleeding all over their nicely polished wood floor ) for almost a hour, we get to go in. Nurse comes in and immediately my son starts crying like his life is about to end. We manage to convince him that all the nurse is doing is giving him some numbing medicine on a cotton ball. We wait about 10 minutes for the meds to work, and then we are moved into the "SURURE ROOM".. the torture chamber to beat all...LOL !! ANOTHER fresh round of hysterics. Nurse practitioner was going to try and glue it back together... but the gap was too wide to do that. The decision was made... and Oh boy.. did the kid go into a fit !!! They had to put his arms into a pillowcase that he laid down on ( a REAL good idea actually... I have to remember that one..lol ) because they were afraid he was going to fight this all the way. They put a sterile drape over his chin that covered his face... and she got to work. Of course my son can't see.. so he is asking his Dad if she had started yet. My husbands reply was always.. nope.. they are just looking. After she was done giving him the novocaine shot... we told him that the shot part was done. " IT IS ????????" he asked ? "WOW.. I didn't feel a thing !!!! " Well.. DUH.. that's what we tried to TELL you kid !!! After that he was calm and collected .. AND cracking jokes... All that hell we went through for him to FINALLY figure out that maybe mom and dad DID know what they were talking about !!!!
He thinks he looks like a " dork" and isn't happy .. he says it looks like he has hair growing out of his chin, and, after all, he is ONLY almost 9 and too YOUNG to have hair growing out of his chin... LOL. But.. he seems to have survived, because as of right now.. hes outside playing... LOL.
This kid is going to be the death of me if he doesnt stop with the injuries that requier ER visits...LOL He JUST got his cast off his arm a couple weeks ago !!!
OKay... time to pretend I have a life beyond my house...have a great day !!!!
posted by Cynnie01 @ 11:40 AM
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