4 hours in the ER

So while doing some work outside Brenden comes to the front door screaming that he is bleeding. Since Brenden is prone to bloody noses because of his allergies I assumed that was all it was and told him to go to the bathroom and I would meet him there. When I got to the bathroom I quickly realized when I saw the gash in his face that this was going to be much worse. Since Chris is out of town I needed to take all three kids to the ER. And to top it off, it was supposed to be nap time for Rylan.

What I saw when I arrived in the bathroom - It actually doesn't  look as bad in picture form

We got to the ER quickly, but everything after that was slow. We spent nearly 4 hours at the ER and most of that was spent waiting around. When they finally were able to see us we discovered that the laceration was all the way through his cheek. As it was explained to me, Brenden was running away from Jake and tripped in his room and hit is bunk bed. I'm not sure where he hit it, but my guess would be the corner of the stairs. The cut was extremely deep and he must have bit the inside of his cheek to make the hole through the cheek complete. Lovely.

Poor guy had to have lidocaine shots inside and outside of his mouth. It broke my heart and I think I was crying as much as he was. After his cheek went numb they gave him 7-8 stitches. They put 2 or 3 on the inner tissue of the outside of his cheek, 4 stitches on the outside to close it completely, and 1 on the inside to close that off. The inside should have gotten 1-2 more stitches, but the lidocaine didn't seem to completely work and Brenden was screaming so getting the one was nearly a miracle.

He is on a liquid diet for today and hopefully  back to real food tomorrow. The doctor was concerned about particles getting inside the cut in his mouth since they only did the one stitch. Hopefully it'll do some good healing tonight and close up quite a bit.

Waiting......

 Numbing stuff before the Dr really looked at it to see that he would need lidocaine shots

  

After 7-8 Stitches and a lot of tears :(

The silver lining of the day was Chris's parents arriving to stay with the kids this weekend so I can go to Michigan to have a small break, see friends, and eat all the Ann Arbor foods I've been craving. Also, Chris's dad brought my new car with him so I would have it for my trip. After the long day it certainly was a nice end :)