BANG!!!

Sooo.... Yesterday, at 7:30 A.M., Connor was sitting on his knees on a bar stool because he "needed" something that was on the counter. I was at the sink and told him to get down. Amazingly enough, he listened! However, the stools are rather tall, and if he is laying on the stool seat, his feet don't quite reach the step. SO, he tried sliding all the way off, but his feet slid in front of the step instead of out, making him fall down onto his bottom. Because he fell, he pulled the stool right with him and BANG.. the edge of the seat hit him right on the mouth. Poor guy... he was really crying, but I was doing dishes and hadn't seen it happen. I wiped my hands and walked around to him, where he was still laying on the floor, picked him up, and as soon as I did, blood came gushing out everywhere! No exaggeration. I could see a small cut on the outside of his mouth, and his bottom lip swelled up immediately, so I knew that he'd probably bit his lip. Haylie was still in bed when it happened, but as soon as she heard Connor crying, she came bursting out of her room, and started freaking out because she'd seen the blood. I told her to go get dressed... called our neighbor (who was still asleep), and my mom, took Haylie to the neighbor's where my mom would pick her up later. I then threw (not literally) Connor in the car and off we went to the E.R. in pajamas and glasses, at 8 A.M. Luckily, I thought to put a bra on before we left... It's a good thing too, because we didn't get home until 1 P.M. :/

Connor bawled the whole way, and then harder when we got to the hospital. If you know my family, you know that we are buddies with the staff at KMC, as we spent the majority of last winter in the Emergency Room. He kept saying, "But I'm not sick though. I don't want to go to the doctor." Our nurse was so nice.. he got us right in, but of course Connor wanted nothing to do with anything in the room. We sweet talked him until the doctor came in, and after looking at his mouth, Dr. said he would need some stitches. He said we would only leave them in for 5 days, otherwise there would be very noticeable scarring. Unfortunately, Connor wasn't cooperating very well, so they decided to put him to sleep for the procedure. Let me tell ya', I advise all moms to LEAVE THE ROOM if ever you have to go through something like this. One second Connor was awake, and the next he was asleep, but his eyes stayed open the entire time, making his little body seem very lifeless. NOT something I hope to do EVER AGAIN!

After cleaning up his cut, the doctor noticed that the cut inside his mouth was a lot bigger than we thought, so 3 stitches on the outside and 5 on the inside were what we ended up with.Coming out of the anesthesia was a VERY slow process. That little guy just didn't want to wake up. Dr. moved his body around a little bit, and we talked to him about Popsicles and that seemed to help (surprise, surprise!).

He seems to be doing a little better, although he's still sore. He complained about his neck hurting when we got home, so I'm guessing it jarred him a bit when the chair landed on him. He also had a bit of a loose tooth, but the doctor said it would probably tighten back up. Other than that, he's a pretty tough little guy. Thank goodness children are so resilient! I think it freaked me out more than him...