Good Day...Bad Day!

Tuesday, August 14, 2012...beautiful, cool day.  It's a little cloudy, but nice.  I believe I will load up the kids...there's five today because school starts Thursday and the girls have to work Monday - Wednesday.  I really needed to check the post office, so off we go.

Since it was so nice and cool, I thought that we might do an end of summer outing to the zoo.  I pushed the double stroller with Cael and Ava.  Jadon pushed Jude in the single stroller.

We had a great time and the kids behaved so well.  We went home for lunch and got ready for naps.

Well, that was the good day......then came the bad day.

The kids were all playing in the playroom when Jude came running in to me saying "Cael's hurt!"  I ran into the room and could hear him crying but then I saw blood running down the side of his face and splatters all over the floor and bed.  He had fallen off the top bunk onto some little wooden trains and there was a huge gash on the side of his face.  I was pretty scared because it was right at his temple.  It was obvious it needed stitches, so I grabbed a wet rag for him to hold on his face and we came in to call Matt.  Little did I know, Lindsay was on her way out to pick up the kids.  Matt met me at a gas station at H highway and I44.  He took his kids and left to meet Lindsay at Urgent Care.  I took the other kids home to Todd and Heather, went by my house to grab Cael and Ava's bags and shoes.  Meantime Urgent Care had sent Matt and Lindsay to the emergency room at the hospital because they would not stitch up a gash like that on the face.  I headed to the emergency room.  Cozy had already gone by and picked up Ava and took her home.

When I got to the hospital they had already dressed Cael's wound and he was sleeping on Matt's chest.  They were just waiting for the doctor to come in.

He wasn't too crazy about all the tubes and stuff they had to put on him.  They tried to put the oxygen tube on his nose, but he just cried, "I don't want air!".  So they waited until they gave him the shot to sedate him.  Once the sedation kicked in, it didn't take but a few minutes to stitch him up.  They did one thread looped six times, so it would be easier to get out.

When he came to my house the next day, he said first thing, "I not going to top bunk any more."
And he hasn't.....so far.

Cael, you sure were a trooper and very brave.

I love you,

Mema