Stitches

Last night was another adventure to the ER. Byron was working on his Halloween costume, with duct tape and a pair of scissors. It was actually his sword that he was working on at that time, and apparently the scissors slipped and he cut himself pretty good. When I heard Acacia yelling that Byron was hurt I ran into the kitchen and saw him standing at the sink. I applied pressure, grabbed some paper towels, and got it running under cold water to clean everything off and see if it would stop bleeding. When I finally took it all away to see what it looked like it was bleeding pretty good, and was pretty deep. I knew immediately that it would need stitches. I yelled to Acacia to tell Deanna, who was in the shower, we needed to go to the hospital right now. Deanna got dressed quick, then traded places with me and Byron so I could then get shoes on. Helped them get in the back seat of the car and while I stated driving Deanna called friends to see if they could come over and help. Kalina took care of the rest of the kids until then.

At the ER they looked at it right away, but it took about an hour before they could fit us in to actually stitch him up. Luckily an off duty doctor came in and was helping with the overflow of patients. Byron was pretty pale, wanted to sleep, and was "slowing his breathing" to help slow the bleeding. The worst part was the shot to numb that part of his hand, so the actual stitching was not that bad. They also gave him a tetnus shot since it's been about 6 years since the last one. Stopped by Walmart for more bandaids on the way home.

Quite an adventure. Byron has needed stitches more times than any of the other kids. But Valen is still young. Seeing the things he does I just wonder what else we have in store with those two.