Are You Kidding Me?

No, apparently not is the answer, but I really do wish the the last 27 hours were just a bad dream. Yesterday started out pretty good. The boys slept in a little, and we were all cuddling on the couch. I walked away to do something, and Brody stood up on the couch. Matt reached to get him, and get him to sit down and Brody screamed and ran the other way caught his foot on the arm of the sofa and face planted like a plank board into the giant subwoofer. So off we went to the pediatric urgent care at 8:15am (which turned out to be closed so we went to the ER instead). They got Brods in pretty quickly, but there is always a wait that is entirely too long for any child. Nonetheless we did see a very good PA who thought he had indeed broken his nose and was concerned he had a septal hematoma. So he ordered a CT scan. The good news, he did just barely break his nose, but good enough to have two black eyes and a bloody nose now for 24 hours. We got home a little after 1pm yesterday and he is doing fine. I'm telling you. Kids really are resilient. And that awful morning was over thank goodness...or was it?

No it really wasn't quite over! Just before dinner, Colby threw a tantrum that landed him a fall into the kitchen table and quite the cut on his chin. Although small, it was very wide, and after two hours when it had not stopped bleeding, we called in a huge favor to a doc in the neighborhood. He kindly looked at Colby and said that it probably needed stitches, but that because of the location we could probably get away with trying to close it with steri-strips ourselves. After a trip to Walgreens and attempting several times to get it to close, I couldn't get it. So Matt took Colby to urgent care at 9pm last night. The doc there said it was too wide to use glue and they could not butterfly it either. Unfortunately poor Colby had been picked at so much by that point when he heard the word stitches he freaked out. So basically he was wrapped up like a burrito (which I think they do anyway), while two nurses and Matt held him down for the stitches. I sighed a huge sigh of relief when Matt brought him home and we settled in to bed. Thank goodness that horrid day of Urgent care was behind us... I mean we were very grateful the injuries were somewhat minor and everyone was just in one piece for the night. THAT IS UNTIL THIS MORNING....

Colby woke up this morning pretty chipper all things considered, and then I looked at his chin. The bandaid was still in place from the urgent care, but he was turning bright red and had a pretty nasty rash all over his face and down his neck. So I took off the band-aid to see what was going on and one of his two stitches was untied. SERIOUSLY ARE YOU KIDDING ME? We really did not want to go back to the Urgent care, and poor Colby...really. But obviously we had to go. After a pretty wretched experience there waiting entirely too long for something that never should have happened. I did put my foot down and we got Colby the care he deserved and should have had last night. The director of the clinic did a great job and gave him the two other stitches he should have had last night to hold it all together. It turns out he had an allergic reaction to the lidocaine shot he was given yesterday (we think)...so we had to use a different and less effective numbing cream today, and take a dose of benadryl. Despite all that, today he was such a brave boy, he didn't even cry. So here are the battle wound pictures from today, all sewed up, rested up (kind of) and hopefully not to see the Urgent Care or ER for at least 5 days when the stitches come out.

Little Brody is doing fine today. I will take him this week to follow up with his pediatrician, but he is such a happy little boy. Poor Mimi, the pictures scheduled for next week will either be a great memory we can laugh about later or will be cancelled for the ?? time this year. As for Matt and I...we are just praying that the rest of this week will be uneventful (to say the least). Maybe Brody is being reborn into his avatar form to infiltrate the Na'vi , and if we paint his face blue, maybe, just maybe we could find some humor in this!