.....the Emergency Room!!!
Yesterday was a pretty emotional day for our family. At around 11am Erik fell off a chair at home and cut hip lip open, yuck, it was not pretty. But his Daddy was excellent at stopping the bleeding with ice cream, amazingly Erik stopped crying once the ice cream came out. :) Then they headed for my work to show me the sad face and I walked them over to the ER to check in. After a little while I checked in with them and the verdict from the Dr was he needed stitches. And to get those stitches in, Erik needed to be sedated, which meant he needed and IV. This is where things got really sad. As the nurses and I tried to restrain Erik to get the IV in he kept screaming and yelling, "NO!" and "Hold you!" which is what he says when he wants you to pick him up. I felt so bad for him. I was so sad that he was in pain and that we needed to cause more pain to fix his lip.
Here's a BEFORE shot of Erik cuddling with his daddy.
It gets worse. The Dr. and nurses explained that the sedation medication would knock Erik out while they stitched him up but one of the side effects are nightmares!!! "So he might wake up screaming." they told us. WHAT?!?!? Anyone else feel the guilt and tears piling up?
My husband is a wonderful bearer of the priesthood and had the clarity to remember to give Erik a blessing before the procedure began. I was so happy that the staff were willing and welcoming of that. I think it gave everyone in the room comfort and calmed us all down.
Erik woke up very calm to mom and dad leaning over his bed, what a blessing! We tried to keep him calm by singing him primary songs, I really think it helped.
After many tears, from mom, dad and Erik, he made it out of the ER with 4-5 stitches in his upper lip that will stay in till next week. He'll probably have a scar, which I was feeling bad about, but ya know, guys think scars are pretty cool, so I think it'll be ok. :)
This is Erik today. Such a happy boy.
I think he's gotten used to having stitches in his lip now because he's not playing with them as much as he was yesterday. So hopefully he won't pull them out with his teeth, the Dr. was concerned about that.
I really never thought I'd be so sad to see my child hurting, but it just killed me yesterday! All I wanted to do was take the pain away and hold my baby.
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Ouch! It's very scary when kids that little get hurt. I just about died when Jane broke her leg--she handled it better than I did!
Oh what a sad day! Poor guy.
I am so glad he held up like a trooper. What a blessing that Paul was able to use his Priesthood to help calm Erik and bring him comfort.
When Owen split his lip they gave him meds that were supposed to knock him out for hours and give him a bit of temporary amnesia. Instead, he burned through the medication within minutes and needed three more doses after that to get all the stitches in. Each time he woke up he was raging mad and violent to all the doctors and nurses working on him. Jared just about fainted...no really. They got him a stretcher to lay on. I was 7 months pregnant and doing my best to comfort him without getting in the doctors way. It was a very nutty experience.
It sounds like Erik did better than Owen did...and us. ;)
I'm so sorry he got hurt. What a traumatic experience. I hope he will feel better soon. When Paul was 18 months old, he cut his forhead and needed stitches. It took at least 5 people to hold him down to get them too. He was really strong for such a little guy. It was very hard on me too. But you can't really even notice the scar now. They heal so quickly when they are little. Did you see Carol's blog about her liitle girl's cut on the lip. You can't even see a scar now and it was pretty bad at the time.
Casandra!! So sad, that makes me want to cry. :(
What a sad day! But I'd say you all actually handled it pretty well! :) How incredible that we have the priesthood and the gospel to get us through life's little hurdles! And PS-in spite of all that happened that day, Erik looks SO cute in all those pictures!!
So sorry that happened. But it sounds like he's taking after his dad in two ways 1)getting stitches really young and 2)being a trooper and bouncing back really quickly. Good luck.
Miss you guys.
I am so sorry for that. It is the worst when it is your kids that get hurt. But they are so resiliant, truly it hurts us more then it ever hurts them. You guys are amazing and everything turned out good in the end.
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