Well we have survived our first big accident. Gavin fell off the sofa last Thursday and cut his ear open. I was sitting right by him and picked him up just as he fell only to find that it looked like a chunk of his ear was missing. I grabbed a rag and held it to his ear with much resistance from him he was of course screaming his head off and thank goodness cartilage doesnt bleed very much. (just one of the many things I learned in this adventure). This is of course good for my sanity but not so good for stitching them up after the doctor looked at it (of course this is at 5:00 so we are now at the after hours clinic and can't see our regular doctor) he thought that a plastic surgeon should do it because of the lack of blood in cartilage and also because cartilage cannot be sewn so you have to be extremely precise in just getting the skin or the cartilage will tear right apart like paper. So off I head to the ER anyway long story short the plastic surgeon was in surgery until 8:30 that night so we had to go back and they had to put him basically under to do it. So around 11:30 that night we were finally home and in bed. What a day. But now I can say I survived my first stitches (I stayed home with the other two when Grin took Gavin to have it sewn up and was actually grateful that I they didn't do it earlier so I didn't have to watch probably the only way I survived it). I did however go with him to take them out and he was a trooper. It is looking good now and hopefully with any luck there won't be much scaring oh the fun of being a mom. The pictures are a little blurry because a hurried and took them in the ER and was a little worried about getting caught so sorry althought it might make it easier to look.
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