We've been at this parenting thing for 10+ years now and have never had to go the emergency room.
Lochlan was playing around in the living room with Cambria while I was making dinner and I heard a horrible scream... from Lochlan (and Mason). Blood was pouring all over his face and I was trying to figure out what had happened. I got a paper towel while I tried to think of what to do next and tried not to panic, but Mason sure did. He almost passed out and had to go lie down on the couch in a pre-shock state :) Poor fella.
Lochlan was actually doing pretty good. He stopped crying in a few minutes and I made a few calls to see who could watch the others while I took Lochlan to the hospital. It was apparent he needed some sort of intervention. I could see his skull tissue through the hole. I took the other kids and a movie to our neighbor's and started for emergency. But as I rounded the corner I remembered we have urgent care a few blocks away! We dropped in there and as luck would have it they were open for 15 more minutes! Still keeping our no ER streak :)
Lochlan did great even though they covered his face with a drape and gave him a shot of numbing medicine. He held really still on the promise that when we were done he would be able to finish the train book that we started to read while waiting.
They gave him three stitches...
and the train book and a sticker. He tried to help himself to a couple more books and some more stickers, since they were being so generous :)
And he slept with them all night :)
4 days later we went back to have them removed.
And 3 days later Cambria gashed two large holes in her chin at OMSI. We had been there 15 minutes! So... back to the same urgent care we went. (I didn't get a photo of her, but she was quite put out). We saw the same doctor and the same medical assistant... who were starting to give us some puzzling looks.
This time they super glued her two holes. My kids look like a couple of bruisers and we're probably on some sort of watch list or something now with that urgent care... but we still have never been the the ER! That counts for something right?
