I tried for the close-up but he kept moving......Somehow, in my entire childhood, I only remember going to the ER once-- and that was because I shoved my sis off our playground equipment and she hit her upper chest on the wood enclosure pretty hard. (Ok, I am sorry :o) But having 2 girls, and only 2 girls, I think my parents escaped the tortured Urgent Care/Emergency room, 4 hour plus visits.....besides I can remember Colin shooting his eye out with the rubber band gun (or was that me that did that? :o) and Kyle busting his head open....and while I might have been the perpetrator of the damage I never received any...oh wait, I just remembered when an entire bleacher full of people fell on me in high school and cracked my rib cage...ok that's another story....point is, we hardly ever visited the ER. I have been there, oh, a half dozen times in the last few years or so: Laney's broken leg, Asher stitches on his eye, Tristan concussion, Melina needed a puncture wound glued together, Tristan had stitches in the eye, Mara broken leg (2x)...do I care to remember more? Oh, I might as well throw in my gall-bladder attack which really turned out to be colitis and in the end was really a 10 week pregnancy that everyone missed (Mara). So, how many more times will I visit in the next 20 years...I care not to even start counting. I just pray nothing is ever too serious.
So, Josh held his boy scout first aide training at our house yesterday and Mara and Asher took it as the perfect opportunity to wrestle and thus split Asher's lip wide open for all to see a true wound. Josh joked about stitching it up for the boys, but I demonstrated applying pressure and then promptly headed to the ER with the babies in tow so that we could at least get Ashie some pain relief. He was a champ. Didn't cry once after the initial fall; everyone was sure impressed. That and they spoiled the kids with new books and crackers and juice and entertainment. Broadlawns is just too good to us. Everyone had to stop in and see the Doc's kids and comment on how angelic Asher was (??????). Spitz sewed him up after I applied the lidocaine gel and all was well in 2 hours instead of 4. It pays to know your ER staff :o) He's back to himself and other than a fat lip, no worse for the wear! (Oh and I think there are 5 stitches. Three in the lip and one above and one below to hold the wound closed).
