Stitches Sunday

(This is my sister in laws house, it is beautiful!)

Sunday we had dinner at my sister in laws house, my mother in law was watching the kids so we went up to help out and have dinner. After dinner everyone except for Bonnie (mother in law) and I went out to the new motor home my in laws had just purchased. I was finishing up the dishes when, my brother in law, Jon came running in to tell me that Noah had cut his chin, but it wasn’t bad. Being a mom, I took off running. I met Tim at the front door. Tim’s and Noah’s shirts were covered in blood, and I freaked out. By that time the blood had stopped and I looked at the cut to see if he needed to get stitches. Noah lifted his head up so I could see and the gash was HUGE!

Noah was on the top bunk playing and Tim had just wiped Noah’s nose and turned around to throw the tissue away when Noah fell off and hit his chin on the corner of the chairs.

We gathered our things up and headed out. We decided to go to an insta care rather than an emergency room to save on costs. The first one did not take our insurance so we headed off to the next insta care. Noah did not want to go to the doctor and was freaking out! Once we were in the room and they put some numbing gel on his cut he calmed down. He played doctor, cleaning up Tim’s scratch on his nose, while we waited for the numbing gel to work. He was SO brave when the doctor came in, he answered questions and even lay on the pillow, but then the nurse gave him a shot of numbing medicine, and that was the end of him being brave. The doctor had Noah’s head, I was holding him hands and Tim was grabbing Noah’s legs, and he still moved around enough that the needle bent in his chin. After I some what calmed Noah down we decided to put him on a Papoose Board and strap him down. This actually calmed him down a little. The cut had gone all the way to the jaw bone, through all layers of skin, so they had to do two stitches on the inside and four on the outside.


I am so GRATEFUL that was the extent on his injuries, and pray we don’t have stitches again (at least for a couple more years)