Monday, June 7, 2010

Emergency Room Visit


Yup. We had a babysitter lined up and a date night planned for an Amazing Race Birthday Party last month and about an hour before we were supposed to leave I hear a "Mommy!! Jake fell!!!"
Jake is crying and I'm comforting him. He says he hit his chin and it's bleeding. "It's okay honey. Calm down. You're okay." All the usual words of comfort...
(See that tile wall separating the hot tub from the pool? He slipped while running across that)

Then, "Let me take a look at it."
Um...

Ew! "Oh, wow, okay. You're okay. Alex go get your dad NOW!"
It was pretty gross. I didn't want to freak him out so I stayed really calm and acted like it was no big deal but it was split open! And there I thought it was just a little scrape!

We dried him off and got him dress and canceled our babysitter and John spent the evening in the emergency room. "Can I bring my DS?" That was all he cared about!!
No stitches, just glue.
Life with boys!

8 comments:

Hailey Smoot Kandell said...

ah! Im not ready for that. blood... bleh. poor kid.

Rach said...

Oh, poor Jakers! I forgot to look at it when we were at the ranch.

Rach said...

ps who in the world was taking all those photos?

Marilyn said...

Poor Jake - I hope he's all better now. Love and miss you all!! Mom

Jacob B said...

John didn't faint? Maybe he does ok when it isn't his own injury. ( :

Camille said...

Kinda wanna faint right now, ouch!

Jennifer said...

One of my twins got stitches in almost the exact same spot for smacking his chin off the kitchen table. They'll have interesting scar stories when they're older and have a bald spot in their beards.

Mama Coons said...

Same thing happened to Alyssa, who is now 13. It was at a pool during an achievement day party. It is one of her "stories". They never forget a day at the emergency room!