Scar

On November 24th, Tuesday morning, my sweet little Nicholas had a very bad fall. We had just finished eating oranges in the family room, I picked up all the peels and went in the kitchen. Just then I heard Nicholas crying, a cry that I don't recognize, a cry that I've never heard before, I drop everything in my hands and ran over to him. I saw him his lying on his back crying, I saw red...I saw blood on the floor on both sides of him, as I got to him, I saw his right upper corner of his forehead was bleeding, squirting out blood!!

I picked him up in my right arm and used my left hand to cover his cut, applying pressure to help stop the bleeding, rushed over to the kitchen to get a clean towel. As I removed my hand to put the towel on, the cup of my palms filled with blood in the two seconds it took to get the towel on. Took back him back to the family room, put him on the floor and put another clean towel (from the laundry basket) on this cut, then grab the silk scarf that was on the floor next to him and wrapped the towel really tight. He was still crying in pain...so I picked him up and went to get my phone, purse and keys. Told Audrey to put shoes on while I was doing that, we got in the car and I put towel on the side of Nicholas head, put his head on it to rest, and told him not to move. He was such a good sport about it, he didn't move at all during the whole trip to the ER. Sometime during the chaos of getting ready and getting in the car, Nicholas had calm down and stop crying.

I had called Dr. Tan's office to see if I we should bring him there for stitches, but the line was busy, after two attempts, I decided to go to the ER at West Valley Hospital. Poor baby must of been in such pain, he was barely able to open his eyes, I told Audrey to look at him and talk to him. They are such amazing kids, what did I ever do to deserve them, I love them both so so much!

After filling out the information sheet, we waited a few minutes and got called in to the triage nurse for assessment. After checking his blood pressure the nurse said he was fine, its normal. After another few moments we were lead back to a room to wait for the doctor. Two doctors and a nurse came in a few minutes later, asked what happen and look at his wound. They said he will need stitches and they will be back in a few minutes to do it. When they return to the room, they wrapped Nicholas up in the blanket to prevent him from moving, one person was there to hold his body, another was there to hold his head while the doctor did the stitches.

I didn't stay to watch, I had a nature call, so Audrey and I went to the bathroom and Nicholas started crying at the top of his lungs again. After about 10 minutes, we returned and he was all ready done, and has stop crying til he saw me. I held him and he stop crying, ask him if he was ok, he nodded his head. I told him its going to fine now, we are going to go home, and he hugged me really tight around the neck. Poor baby must of been scared while I was away.

After sitting in the waiting area for 10 minutes, the doctor came and gave us instructions of what to do and then we left. Called Dr. Tan's office to schedule a follow up for the following day. Stitches looked good according to the doctor, and the following Monday, they were removed. He was such a good sport the entire time, he let me put ointment on and wrap it up in bandage, although he pulled it off when he fell asleep, he still let me wrap it time after time.

Today...three weeks since the incident, he has a little line, very straight line, about 3/4 inch long, no more an 2-3mm wide, and its healing nicely.