A Trip to the ER
Tonight we took our first official trip to the ER with Matty. He has been in the ER twice before with fevers that didn't break but other than that we have been very lucky. In five years the kid has been pretty healthy and has avoided major injury. (PICS BELOW ARE NOT FOR EVERYONE, A COUPLE ARE GRAPHIC SO IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE TUMMY FOR THE PICS I SUGGEST TO READ THE STORY BUT NOT LOOK AT PHOTOS) lol
Tonight changed that lucky streak!!! After multiple warnings from me Matty was told to NOT play with his soccer ball in the house. And like your typical five year old boy he failed to listen to all the warnings he was given!! So as I'm about to get up and start making him dinner I hear a loud crash of glass shattering coming from his bedroom. I take off for his room only to think that he put something through his bedroom window or something from outside came thru the window.
Matty starts crying and holding his head and when I get to his room I see his light fixture in a million pieces and the soccer ball right in the middle of it all. Not realizing he's badly injured I start lecturing and scolding him for again not listening and playing in the house!!! Then I realize he's bleeding and I remove his hand from his face and sure enough there is a big huge gash. I drag him quickly to the bathroom where I grab a washcloth and apply it directly to the massively bleeding wound. I call my sister to come stay with Bailey and my grandmother to pick us up so we can get to the hospital!!!
I immediately requested that he see a plastic surgeon and so instead of the ER doctors because all I can think of at this point is that my perfect little boy's most adorable face is going to be badly scarred and I was already an emotional wreck without having a bad stitch up permanently marking him for life.
I went thru the Mommy guilt moments too where I blamed myself for not paying closer attention to what he was doing, for not taking the ball away from him completely earlier that afternoon and hiding it where he couldn't get it and for just allowing my baby boy to get hurt this badly. Felt like an awful mother.
We were released from the ER after they put steri strips over the wound to close it and protect it until he can get to see the plastic surgeon. We are due into his office first thing in the morning so he can sew him up properly. OMG My poor little man!!! I look at him and his poor little face and i just want to cry. I was such a mess...my hands were shaking and I was trying really hard not to panic or let on to Matty that I was panicked.
WHAT A NITE!!!! Lets hope the Surgeon can fix him up well enough that the scarring will be very minimal if at all. I'll let you all know how that goes once we get home tomorrow. Pictures of the damage to his face are below!!!
Tonight changed that lucky streak!!! After multiple warnings from me Matty was told to NOT play with his soccer ball in the house. And like your typical five year old boy he failed to listen to all the warnings he was given!! So as I'm about to get up and start making him dinner I hear a loud crash of glass shattering coming from his bedroom. I take off for his room only to think that he put something through his bedroom window or something from outside came thru the window.
Matty starts crying and holding his head and when I get to his room I see his light fixture in a million pieces and the soccer ball right in the middle of it all. Not realizing he's badly injured I start lecturing and scolding him for again not listening and playing in the house!!! Then I realize he's bleeding and I remove his hand from his face and sure enough there is a big huge gash. I drag him quickly to the bathroom where I grab a washcloth and apply it directly to the massively bleeding wound. I call my sister to come stay with Bailey and my grandmother to pick us up so we can get to the hospital!!!
I immediately requested that he see a plastic surgeon and so instead of the ER doctors because all I can think of at this point is that my perfect little boy's most adorable face is going to be badly scarred and I was already an emotional wreck without having a bad stitch up permanently marking him for life.
I went thru the Mommy guilt moments too where I blamed myself for not paying closer attention to what he was doing, for not taking the ball away from him completely earlier that afternoon and hiding it where he couldn't get it and for just allowing my baby boy to get hurt this badly. Felt like an awful mother.
We were released from the ER after they put steri strips over the wound to close it and protect it until he can get to see the plastic surgeon. We are due into his office first thing in the morning so he can sew him up properly. OMG My poor little man!!! I look at him and his poor little face and i just want to cry. I was such a mess...my hands were shaking and I was trying really hard not to panic or let on to Matty that I was panicked.
WHAT A NITE!!!! Lets hope the Surgeon can fix him up well enough that the scarring will be very minimal if at all. I'll let you all know how that goes once we get home tomorrow. Pictures of the damage to his face are below!!!
OUCHIE
UP CLOSE AND GROSS..THAT'S DEEP
Waiting Patiently in the ER to be seen
Temp patched up and ready to go home to awaitour early morning appt with the surgeon
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