Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Samuel's split chin


Monday morning Samuel was standing in his chair, and he must have leaned too far forward and the chair came crashing down to the floor with Samuel, and he banged his chin on the floor, splitting it open. I grabbed my purse and shoes, and told each of the kids to grab their shoes and something to do and get in the van. I grabbed some ice and a wash cloth to put on Samuel's chin (which was useless becuase he wouldn't let me put the ice on anyway) And we drove to the clinic near our house. After we checked in a nurse came out and looked at his chin, and said it needed to be taken care of right away, so we followed her to the back room. They brought in 3 little chairs, for Joseph, Austin, and Betsy, and then cleaned off Sam's chin with iodine, which he hated. Then after they got everything ready, I had to hold Samuel's arms down and lay myself on top of him to hold his body still, while another nurse had to hold his head still. The doctor numbed up his chin and put in 3 sutures, which probably only took a couple of minutes, but it sure seemed forever with Samuel screaming a crying, and yelling "mommy, help", "mommy, need you", "mommy, up"(he wanted me to stop holding him down). I was talking softly in his ear the whole time, trying to comfort him, but he wouldn't be comforted. Once he was done, he calmed down pretty fast, especially once they gave him 2 suckers, he was sure happy to get out of there, and took about a 3-4 hour nap, once we got home. When we got home he went over to the chair (it was still laying on the ground) and said "fall down, hurt." I've had a bit of a hard time keeping a band-aid on him, he loves pulling them off, and every once in a while he'll bump his chin, and say "hurt" but other then that he seems to be fine. After the Dr. was done with Samuel, Joseph (who has had his chin split open 4 times) said "Mom, did you have to do that to me the 1st time I split open my chin?"
"yes"
Joseph: "how about the second time?"
"yes"
Joseph: "how about the third time?"
"yes"
Joseph: "What about the last time?"
"nope, by then you were old enough to hold still, without me holding you down"

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