Baxter Bunch: Stitches

July 17, 2015

Stitches

Last Tuesday Evan made his very first trip to the ER to get stitches. School called around 1:00 and told us that he was playing on his cot (it was naptime) and he fell on the bookshelf. The director was really nonchalant about the whole thing, but said it might need stitches. After receiving a picture of Evan, Shawn decided he definitely needed stitches so he went and picked him up. They went to Dr. G's first so he could look at it and decide if he could glue it, but ultimately decided with how close it was to his eye, that he needed to get actual stitches. So Shawn and Evan headed over to Children's Hospital in Plano to get him all fixed up. They gave him some pain/anxiety medicine that made him really loopy and slur his words. It definitely worked though because Shawn said Evan never shed a tear. He was definitely tough about the whole thing! Thankfully, Evan only needed 2 stitches and was home pretty quickly. The hardest thing about the whole day was that the medicine the hospital gave him made him not be able to walk. So trying to keep him sitting down so he wouldn't fall was hard! Luckily it started wearing off after a few hours and by morning his legs were "working again", as Evan said. I thought Evan might have a hard time keeping the band aid on all day, as he has never been a big fan of band aids, but even with this one making him not able to open his eye completely he was fine. I found some fun new band aids at the store, so I think he enjoyed getting to pick out a new one each day. We were told the stitches should dissolve in about 5 days. We're about 10 days in and only 1 stitch is remaining. It seems to be healing pretty well. I'm just hoping the scar isn't too bad. I'm sure with how wild this child is, this probably won't be our first trip to the ER with him.