ER Visit

Last Thursday was one exciting day! We spent all day in Cave Spring, Georgia (as you can see from previous posts) and most of the night in the emergency room. Around 8:40pm (not even an hour after we got home) Jeffery decided to jump from the laundry basket to Jamie and Katherine's bed but slipped first. He hit the back of his head on the corner of the nightstand and his mouth on the laundry basket. Nicholas came over to watch the kids while I drove to the after hours clinic with Jason holding Jeffery. On the way we called the doctor to see if they could make an appointment at Children's South (off Acton road), but when we got there the nurse and doctor said that we needed to go to the ER because he might need a CT (CAT scan). They didn't even do one anyway.

We were told how to get to there, but with all the construction we missed seeing the ER sign. So we ended up parking in front of Children's Hospital and walking down to the ER. I told Jason he needed to move the van several times, but he thought we would be done soon. When we finally asked someone about parking, Jason hustled because she said they would tow our van if we didn't move it. Children's ER has valet parking (15 feet away on the deserted-closed for construction-street).

Anyway, Jeffery had to have 3 stitches and the busted lip (you know the area where the lip meets the gum above your two front teeth) will heal on its own.

Jason, the nurse practitioner and I were all very impressed at how well Jeffery understood what was going on and communicated the information that was asked of him. He just kept asking, "Are we done yet?"

I was bored and really tired even though we were only in the ER for 2 hours, but I did think to take pictures with my camera on my phone.

This is what the corner of the nightstand will do to a 3 yr old's head. Do not under any circumstances let them play together!

This is how he feels afterwards. He pointed the 5 on the smiley/crying faces pain scale. 1 is a happy smiley face and 5 is the frowny face with tears. They gave him some medicine for the pain.

He got so bored that he started moving stickers to different parts of his body. They didn't have spiderman (He was actually wearing a Spiderman shirt that night.) so he chose Bumblebee.

Instead of injecting medicine to numb the area, they used a gel made of lidocaine and something else. The neon band aid is just to keep it there.