Milestone: Our First ER trip

So, we made it 3 years and 8 months without a visit to the ER.

Not bad.

Then, a week ago Tuesday, the corner of the counter jumped out and crashed into poor Quentin's lip/face and caused a deep gash that, unfortunately, needed stitches.

Of course it happened at the end of the evening so our ER trip was a late night one - and during a pretty crappy snowstorm too!

Don't almost all trips to the ER with kids ended up happening at night?!

We called Gramma and she went with us, driving us there during the crappy weather.  Now, that's one good Gramma!  Quent was fine with going to the hospital and did a great job all around!  We talked a lot about what would happen and he asked a lot of questions, but he really did exceptionally well.  The Dr. who did the stitches said that he was better than some adults at getting stitches in!!  

He really did so great, he was so brave!

Thumbs up Mom!

Waiting for the numbing gel to do its work before getting the stitches, Gramma made him a glove balloon and he had lots of stickers and stuff to do.

Ahhhh, using his glove balloon as a pillow!

Even in the ER late at night (maybe 11:30?) he still was being silly!

You know he actually does sleep like this, with his hands under his face - its pretty sweet!

He was an AWESOME patient!

I was so proud of the great job he did, not only in getting the 3 stitches so calmly, but in the 4 hour wait that we had before (luckily not all of that time in the waiting room). He really wanted to talk and play with the other kids when we were in the waiting room, but they were all there because they were sick and I did not want him to pick up any illness while we were there, so we made him stay with us and kept sanitizing his hands (and ours) while we were there.  He was a trooper though, we just kept saying that we did not want to share their germs and he did pretty well.

We got home that night at about 1:30 am and so he got to bed by about 2am.  Other than making up for some lost sleep he next day, there have been no real problems at all with the "boo-boo".

He is healing well and since they are dissolving stitches, he is already losing some of them.

As you can see - 3 stitches can't hold this boy down!!

(Just so you know: During the whole ordeal, Jackson was at home with Daddy and went to bed.  He gave me and Quent a kiss before we left and said goodbye.  He was pretty fascinated the next morning to see Quent's boo-boo.)