The ER

We actually went to the ER last Sunday for an emergency!! HAHA Isn’t that what you are suppose to do?  Brennen had a really rough day and fell…more than once.  It all started around noon when he was playing around AKA fighting with Braeden over who could carry the tea for Stephy when he fell face first into the door facing.  He had a goose egg of all goose eggs.  It was pretty big!  We ate some turkey dinner and then Aunt Meg decided to be brave and take all 5 kids to the playground.  Brennen was coming back down off the steps when he got to the last step and fell and busted his head again on metal steps.  He busted it open good and scared Meghan half to death.  Meghan called me from a ladies house that lives by the playground and by the time I got over there they had him pretty much cleaned up.  We jumped into Meghan’s van since my car didn’t have car seats and headed to the ER…

  

He was not very upset…I was letting him eat M&M’s trying to keep him awake since he hadn’t had a nap and calm as  I keep the wet rag over his head…

We get to the ER and they clean it with soap and water and put this bandage on it…

Poor thing was soo tired.  He just wanted to lay down on the bed.  So I let him and he slept while we waited for the doctor.  You would think a kid with a gash out of his head would make a doctor hurry.  Nope, we got a complete hour nap before the doctor came in.  PS, he was a great doctor but geeee whizzz HURRY up next time please!

And here we are laying on the bed all finished…

He did sooo well!  For a kid who is getting shots in the forehead and stitches he barely fussed and was asking me for a popsicle.  He was amazing and got a whole box of popsicles after this. 

He had six stitches for five days.  We let Aunt Courtnee take them out Thanksgiving weekend since she use to work for a plastic surgeon.  We figured she knew what she was doing!  Brennen was pretty proud of his battle wound and ate up all the attention!!! 

The next morning after the ER visit I was asking Brennen what happened and all he could talk about was how he left his bike at the playground.  I assured him that his G-unk picked it up and took it home for him!  He was ready to go back and play with Meghan soon!

This is one thing I was excited not to have to do 2 at the same time! =]   Let’s hope we don’t have any more stitches for a LONG time!