A Visit to Children's Hospital!!!

Last Tuesday, February 24th Phoenix went to spend the day with MamaC & Isabelle like he does every Tuesday. But this Tuesday he decided to trip on air and go falling into a silver clip on one of the sassy seats in MamaC's playroom.

Luckily, I just work downstairs in my Dad's office and she called me immediately to come upstairs. Blood was everywhere and he was crying. I knew when I saw the cut that it was going to need stitches. I think that he was mad that we were holding him down to try and get the bleeding to stop. We finally were able to get a bandaid on there and it supplied enough pressure to keep it from bleeding. Phoenix & I hopped in the car and off we went to Children's Hospital.

I put a call into Daddy and told him what happened and he said he would make his way down to meet us. I am so glad he did because I don't know what I would have done by myself with him, he is strong and doesn't like anyone messing with him. He got so mad when the nurse put the ER admitting bracelet on him. He kept shaking his wrist and screaming trying to get it off. They tried to calm him down with stickers which he kept trying to give back to them and got even madder that they were stuck to his hand.

They got us in a room pretty quickly and knew right away he would need at least 3 stitches. He played in the room and they brought him a sippy cup with some gatorade in it and he liked that. We also had plenty of snacks and books to keep him occupied while we waited. Finally they came in and had to put him in a "baby papoose" which straps their little arms & legs so tight so they can't move. The nurse was there holding his head and he was screaming and looking around for us. We kept reassuring him that we were there and he was doing good. It broke my heart seeing him get so upset. He eventually cried himself to sleep while they finished up and he ended up with 5 stitches! My poor baby!

He was so wiped out that he just laid on me while we waited to be discharged and then we were on our way home. We were told by many of the staff there that we will be back since we have a boy! GREAT!!!! I hope that is the one & only time we ever have to be there!

MamaC felt awful because it happened at her house. She called many times to check up on him. Isabelle was worried too because she witnessed it and she called Phoenix to make sure he was okay, it was really sweet! What a crazy day!!

*One week update* The cut is healing really well and the stitches are dissolving* Now we are starting to put scar cream on there, hopefully it will not leave a bad scar.*

The little silver part that is sticking out of the red clip is what caused all of the chaos!
It was a one in a million fall, he had to fall just right to hit that thing!