Suprisingly, we had made it almost 2 years with 2 boys and no ER visits. Watching these 2 daredevils jump, climb and run on everything, we know our future holds many visits. On Wed, Mar 4, the boys were being boys and slamming the doors, which of course has been one of our 5 house rules for a long time!! Yes, there are only 5 simple house rules and they are posted on the fridge. Jaeden can practically recite the rules. And one rule is "No playing with doors." So, Jaeden slammed our bedroom door pretty hard, and a sign above the door fell and hit Jayce in the head. Luckily, the sign was fairly light, but it did fall about 4-5 feet, Jaycer's only about 34" and the sign was above our door only a few inches from the 8' ceilings we have. Joel was the only one home when it happened, and he was able to stop the bleeding quickly, but he knew right away that the gash needed sutures!! I unfortunately was still at work since Wed is typically one of my late days. Somehow, Joel called Dr. George, who he works for, and they planned to meet at one of our offices and help sew it up. Dr. George's wife is an ER doctor, and he called her to come assist. So Joel and I got to hold down screaming Jayce, while she quickly put in 6 sutures. And it was a piece of cake to remove the sutures compared to getting them in!
Since dinner was skipped that night in lieu of the head gash emergency, we stopped at Dairy Queen on the way home, and Jayce ate at least 1/2 of my blizzard!! And there's been no sign of permanent head trauma!!
Luckily, it was a very straight laceration, and almost in the hairline. It's healed very well, and getting harder to see.
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Now Jayce has a lot in common with Aunt Christy. I was about his age when I cut my head open only it went clear across my whole forehead. Luckily only a slight scar remains
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