i walked into the living room this evening and i found maggie reading to her brother out of her new highlights high 5 magazine. how sweet! i think she was feeling a little sorry for him actually. i don't know if you can tell in the picture or not but take a close look at billy's chin. yes, we had our first er visit last night. one of many i suppose.
for those of you who don't know, a couple of months ago we pulled up all of our carpet in our house ( except for the bedrooms ) and had the concrete scored and stained. we love it! we figured that since billy walked at 9 1/2 months that he was well past the falling down all the time stage. well, by accident. we didn't figure he would do it for for fun. when billy tries something and if he gets a good laugh, you can hang it up, he will continue to do it until whoever is laughing at him is laughing so hard that they are either crying or we have to tell him to stop so he wont hurt himself. this kid has no fear! back to what happened. he and maggie were playing and he thought it would be fun to run and jump/slide on the floor on his knees. not a real good idea. he did it and maggie just laughed and that was the end of it. she laughed so he did it again. she laughed even harder and he jumped/slid once more but this time i'm not sure how it exactly happened but he fell forward and smacked his sweet chin on our nice hard cement floor. ouch!! luckily the er doctor was able to use "dermabond". as he was putting the "glue" on billys chin, he told us that it really was just superglue and that you can now but it in the store where you find the bandaids ( not that i suggest that you parents out there do this instead of taking your children to the er if they bust open their chin ) but we were glad that were able to do that instead of doing stitches. he said that would be really traumatic for a child his age strapping him down to give the injection and to stitch it up. billy did great and was a little trooper!
only instructions they gave us was to keep the area dry for 48 hours. how do you keep a drooling ( he is cutting 4 teeth as we speak ), dirty, everything he eats is all over his face, 19 month olds chin dry?
4 comments:
Sorry about Billy's boo boo!
I'm glad it was takem care of by the glue. I can recall how I felt as a child lying on a table in the doctor's office having four stitches to close up a gaping cut in my forehead. No fun there!
I had a bad fall on the brick steps on the back porch. I can remember my dad washing me up for the trip to the doctor. (Mama was at work at the hospital - she walked over to meet us at the doctor's office - then returned to work. Daddy called her and said, "she had busted her brains out!" Now, can you imagine what Mama's initial reaction must have been when she heard this? Not something a mom wants to hear about her child!!! Fortunately, it wasn't quite that bad.
Hope Billy's feeling better and Maggie is so sweet to take care of him!
Blessings~
Plant Lady
I'm so sorry to hear about Billy's chin! Rylan had to get stitches in his chin in March--his cut went all the way through into his mouth, so the glue wouldn't cut it. Or un-cut it, so to speak. :)
By the way, don't think that this incident will help him realize that he needs to slow down. He won't. :)
christi! i am so sorry, but i guess boys will be boys. how did keeping the chin dry go?
Christi,
I tagged you! Come to my blog to get instructions.
Plant Lady
P.S. It's the post entitled, "Tag, I'm It- Six Random Things About Myself"
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