Knock on wood

Just last Wednesday in Ladies bible class we were talking about how it feels when we have to take a child to the ER. Of course, I had to say that I have not yet had to take one of my children to the ER. Well, last night all that changed. As I was coming home from my visit to curves, Joshua was coming out of his room with his pillow case over his head to play an April fools prank on daddy. As he rounded the corner he tripped over Lily who was laying across the hallway. Anyhow, as I arrived home around 8:05pm I stopped outside to look at the new flowers that our landlord is graciously getting put in our very boring flower beds. As I was looking and admiring the beauty of the flowers, Matt sticks his head out of the front door and says in a very serious tone, "I need you inside right now". I look through the window and all I see is our precious little curly headed boy laying flat on the living room floor with blood all over his chest,arms and legs. Let's just say that a panic went through me that I had not felt since the time Sean chocked on that pretzel on a plane. Needless to say I quickly calmed myself and went inside to see what the damage was. Matt filled me in on what happened and that he had cut his chin. Matt had put a cloth on his chin to stop the bleeding. As I took it away to look, at first it didn't look so bad. Then I got a closer look and could see the flesh underneath. It was actually coming out from under the skin. It was really gross to say the least. I said in a very matter of fact voice, "yep, that's going to need stitches". The bleeding had stopped so we cleaned him up, got him dressed, gave him some Tylenol and I took him to the closest ER in San Marcos. You would think ER's would be quick, but no. We sat there for about an hour. Luckily they had Veggie Tales playing. Finally, we went in to see the triage nurse and then filled out paper work. Then it was back to waiting and watching more Veggie Tales. It didn't take to much longer and we were back to see the doctor. They were really great and had Joshua giggling in no time. The doctor took a look at it, pocked it, squeezed it and the whole time Joshua just giggled. The doctor said that he could use glue, but since he was such an active little fellow it would be better to sew him up. First he had to numb it. This is where it got ugly. He took this long very skinny needle and stuck it in the open wound and started to squeeze the medicine into it. That's when Joshua started crying and he moved a little and the end of the needle poked through his skin. He just kept moving that needle around in that wound putting medicine in until Joshua couldn't feel anything anymore. I could not help but remember the time I had to have stitches in my hand. Not a fun time. Well, Joshua stopped crying and I pocked his chin a few times and asked him if he could feel that and he said it was asleep and started giggling again. The doctor proceeded to clean it and covered Joshua up with a sterile cloth and started stitching. Of course Joshua giggled the whole time. It took five stitches to close up that wound. We finally got home last night a little before 12:00am. What a night. I hope not to have to do that ever again, but knowing Joshua I'm sure it won't be the last. He is doing fine this morning. Acts like nothing ever happened. I hope you all enjoyed my detailed report of our first trip to the ER.