CSI: child staple incident
Not even two minutes after my last post, I heard the wailing screams of Blessing #3. I heard his feet running through the kitchen. I heard B#2 say, “You’re bleeding!”
Yep, there was definitely blood. Lots of it.
That’s what those head wounds do- Spew blood. Spew large volumes of blood.
Apparently, being interrupted in conversation, a frustrated B#5 “accidentally” stabbed B#3 in the head with a pair of scissors. Big sharp ones. The “adult” scissors, as they’re known in our house.
It looked bad, especially with blood spraying all down his face, his hand grabbing his head, his clothes, his feet, the kitchen floor. The kitchen floor really looked like a terrible, messy crime scene.
I put lots of pressure on the gash, and the bleeding finally slowed. It was a bad cut, but I didn’t know if it needed stitches or not. I called the doctor and made another “emergency” visit (recall the recent bead-crammed-up-nostril incident) to have the triage nurse check it out. I was told on the phone that if it required stitches we’d have to go to the emergency room. I was hoping instead for the butterfly bandaid fix.
The nurse calls us back to take a look at it. She hasn’t even gotten her exam gloves all the way on when she says it most definitely needed stitches. I say, “A butterfly bandaid won’t work?”
Nope.
As I’m starting to prepare my mindset for the trip to the ER with all the kiddos in tow, she says she’s going to talk to the doctor about it.
The doctor comes to the exam room, takes a look and says that he thinks he can save me a trip to the ER. He attempts to “stitch” the wound closed with B#3’s own hair-- knotting together the hair from both sides of the gash which holds it closed and then super-gluing the knot, but the hair closer to the ear wasn’t quite long enough to cooperate.
But there was no trip to the ER. No stitches. No shaved head for stitches.
Instead we came home with a souvenir stapler… and a staple remover to get the staples out of his noggin in a couple weeks.
Yep, there was definitely blood. Lots of it.
That’s what those head wounds do- Spew blood. Spew large volumes of blood.
Apparently, being interrupted in conversation, a frustrated B#5 “accidentally” stabbed B#3 in the head with a pair of scissors. Big sharp ones. The “adult” scissors, as they’re known in our house.
It looked bad, especially with blood spraying all down his face, his hand grabbing his head, his clothes, his feet, the kitchen floor. The kitchen floor really looked like a terrible, messy crime scene.
I put lots of pressure on the gash, and the bleeding finally slowed. It was a bad cut, but I didn’t know if it needed stitches or not. I called the doctor and made another “emergency” visit (recall the recent bead-crammed-up-nostril incident) to have the triage nurse check it out. I was told on the phone that if it required stitches we’d have to go to the emergency room. I was hoping instead for the butterfly bandaid fix.
The nurse calls us back to take a look at it. She hasn’t even gotten her exam gloves all the way on when she says it most definitely needed stitches. I say, “A butterfly bandaid won’t work?”
Nope.
As I’m starting to prepare my mindset for the trip to the ER with all the kiddos in tow, she says she’s going to talk to the doctor about it.
The doctor comes to the exam room, takes a look and says that he thinks he can save me a trip to the ER. He attempts to “stitch” the wound closed with B#3’s own hair-- knotting together the hair from both sides of the gash which holds it closed and then super-gluing the knot, but the hair closer to the ear wasn’t quite long enough to cooperate.
But there was no trip to the ER. No stitches. No shaved head for stitches.
Instead we came home with a souvenir stapler… and a staple remover to get the staples out of his noggin in a couple weeks.
by LaughterThoughts | 8:28 PM
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4 Comments:
Oh NO! Poor baby. That looks AWFUL. :(
Oh my gosh!! That's terrible! Hope he's feeling better now. How did he take the actual event of the stapling?
Yikes! Poor guy! :(
lololololol - your house if quite the place to be!~ you will NOT have any shortages of good stories to tell your kids when the get bigger. muggins told me about this event and I am supppppppper glad to see pics of the staples! YAY for staples. tell b#3 that uncle brent would be very happy for him!
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