Warning...the pictures are not for the faint of heart, if you don't like blood, you may want to skip this one!
I guess we haven't been paying our dues to the evil spirits of the Instacare. They decided Saturday night was a good time to exact their revenge. The victim this time was Colton, of course it usually is. He was minding his own business playing in the backyard like a good little boy, when the evil spirits jumped out and tripped him. He landed on a piece of glass that was hidden in the grass. I heard him scream from inside, and then Alyssa screaming too. I could tell from the screams it wasn't going to be good. By the time I got to the front door I found Erik with his arm wrapped around Colton's lower arm and wrist, and blood dripping between his fingers. I grabbed a towel and wrapped it and held pressure for a few minutes. When I looked this is what I saw:(minus the clear bandage applied by the nurse)
I knew instantly that it needed stitches, so I called my mom to come sit with the other two and loaded Colton and Erik in the van. Erik held pressure on it while we drove so it really didn't bleed too much. When we got there a nurse came out and looked at it and agreed it needed stitches. She wiped it off a little and filled the cut with numbing gel and applied a waterproof bandage to hold the gel in. We watched cartoons in the waiting room while we waited for the medicine to work.
When we went back they cleaned it out really good and then gave him some local anesthesia to get it completely numb. Then they stitched it up. Colton cried, but held completely still, he was really brave for such a little guy.
This is the finished product:
3 comments:
Tell him he can be Frankenstein for Halloween.
Poor kid! We've done the stitches thing before. That definitely wasn't fun. He was more hysterical over the fact that he was going to get "sewed" then that he had cut himself and was bleeding all over the place. :) Question....how do you take care of stitches so that they don't scab over? I couldn't figure that out. :)
They just told me that I should keep some antibiotic ointment on it as long as it was oozing. That's what they told me to do when I had my moles removed from my face, and it seems to work.
He has done really well. We have only had to do two doses of tylenol to keep him comfortable, one the day he hurt it and one the first day back at school. The poor kid just takes life the hard way.
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