Sunday, April 09, 2006

Kuper and Evan were running up and down the hallway. Evan, always wanting to be ahead, tried to go around Kuper and accidentally bumped into him, sending him head first into the edge of the door. At the time, I was vacuuming the living room. I noticed they had stopped coming into the living room about half a minute after the incident. I looked down the hall, and Kuper was laying face down in the doorway. He was crying, and as soon as I turned him over blood started pouring out of his forehead.

I called Lynda and told her to get home cause we had to take Kuper to the ER, again. About eight months ago, he had a run in with the entertainment center and his head. Luckily they were able to just dermabond the cut closed. I wasn't so sure this one would be as lucky. Once I got it to stop bleeding I looked at it. His forehead was split wide open. It was open enough that if I could bend a quarter in half, I could have easily put it in his wound.

After the initial shock, Kuper was back to normal. He never passed out, or vomited or anything. From that I guessed he didn't have any sort of concussion or anything.

I got the stuff together and both kids dressed. By the time I opened the garage door, Lynda was pulling up. Luckily, the ER at the hospital we went to was not busy at all. The last time we went to a different hospital, which wasn't busy, but took about 2-3 hours before the doctor actually got to us.

The nurses took his weight and temperature, took a brief look at the wound, and then put me and Kuper in an exam room - in the back. They assumed the doctor was going to have to put in stitches as did I, and I imagine no one wants to hear a baby scream.

The doctor came in, looked at it, and decided to dermabond it closed. The only problem I had with that is it was a deep wound, and the doctor said if he bumps it again during healing it will reopen. Kuper is a little clumsy it seems, and I really don't want to take him back if I don't have to, but I don't want to hear him scream through stitches

The dermabond process was probably a little easier on him and the doctor and nurse. It still took all three of us to hold him still just so it could be applied. After that, all was well and Kuper was himself again, plus a giant band aid on his forehead.

Posted by Mark at 12:43 PM Categories: Life :: |

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