May 14, 2007
Happy Mother’s Day!
I hope everyone had a lovely weekend. Mine didn’t start out terribly promising, but it turned out all right.
Friday I got a call from the school, telling me DS had been hit with a croquette mallet while at recess. (I don’t know who thought giving six and seven year-old boys croquette mallets to play with with minimal supervision sounded like a good idea…) Anyway, there was a nasty gash right near the corner of his eye. Not very long, but wide and deep. (If he’d been hit just a fraction of an inch to the left, he’d have been hit in the eye.) So off to emergency we went where he received two stitches.
The stitches were actually the easy part. Because the wound was so close to his eye, the doctor needed to sedate him before giving him the stitches. It took three tries to get the IV in with DS screaming bloody murder the whole time. After they got the IV in him, the rest went pretty smoothly.
I stayed with him holding his hand while the doctor gave him the stitches. As the sedative wore off and DS woke, he looked at me and smiled and said, ‘I love you Mom.’
The best mother’s day gift ever!
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Oh, that must have been tough. My youngest has been to ER twice with a nasty cut. Next time they’ll call social services on me, I swear. See, she’s born in the year of the monkey (According to my oldest) and is a climber and thinks she’s invincible. The problem is she’s young and clumsy and doesn’t listen. What’s a mother to do? Hope your Mother’s Day was wonderful. Have a fabulous weekend.
Bella
May 18th, 2007 at 10:51 pm