Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Didn't see that coming

My children are fearless and a lot of times they end up doing stupid things that I can only imagine might require an emergency room visit but Monday night was like any typical boring evening so the fact that I ended up waiting 3 hours in the ER with Kaitlyn so they could staple her head took me by surprise.

I'm not positive how it for sure happened but when I looked over Kaitlyn had tripped and fallen backwards onto a little dollhouse. I thought maybe she had hurt her back and picked her up to give her a hug when I noticed blood running down her face and shoulder. Head wounds bleed a lot and since I couldn't see how bad it was I ran her to the shower to clean her up, after finding the wound I knew it would need stitches. While I ran to get stuff for the hospital Zach was doing his own doctoring he managed to stick a band-aid into her wet hair, not the brightest idea because it was extremely taxing and painful for her when I had to pull it out. He also came up with a brilliant idea to wrap her head but since we didn't have any medical tape he thought he would wrap her head with party streamers LOL really?! I put my foot down insisting that the streamer would turn to mush on wet hair and I really didn't want people to laugh at her when entering the ER.

After waiting hours she finally got a room and they determined that one staple would be enough to shut the wound. It looks really gruesome but at least now I know I don't have a weak stomach because I'm sure this wont be the last time one of my kids get hurt.

4 comments:

Cooper Family said...

Just like Zach!!!hahaha That reminds me of the time that Mikayla put a tic tac up her nose a he sucked it out with a straw.. Of course I gagged at that..but he is always doing crazy things.

Kayla said...

Oh my gosh!!! Poor little girl.
Glad only one stapel.

Chrissy....I seriously laughed out loud at the streamer comment.
Men are so funny and come up with everything!

Crystal Hendrix said...

OUCH!!! Poor little girl!!!

Way to go for Zach to try to come up with some ways to help though!! Better than standing there with a dumb look on his face!

The Picketts said...

This is so funny. I read it back when you first posted, but couldn't comment at the time - How's she doing now? And I'm also LAUGHING - remembering the tic tac incident....where does Zach come up with these things?!