Mandy's Memories: A Scary First for Us

I knew it would happen one day, but today was the day that Houston had to go and get his first set of stitches. After going to the doctor, we were immediately sent to the hospital to a Plastic/Surgery Group and they took good care of him this afternoon.

He was patiently waiting in the Dr office in this picture. We were told it was too deep underneath and that it could not be glued and bonded together.

This is his poor little face tonight. A little swelled up, but so far, the pain is not that bad.

It all started after lunch, when a teacher came to me with tears in her eyes and told me, "Mandy, your baby" "He is hurt". I thought , what? She said he was bleeding and was with the nurse. All she knew was there was blood and it was his eye. I immediately freaked and called Tim. He freaked and said, I am coming to get him! I told him no, to wait until I had more details and I would call him back. One of my parent volunteers came to my room and I told him to go check on him. (I was not suppose to know that he was hurt, due to the fact that they thought I would flip out). He came back and told me to go to the office and be with him. Our IF came to
my room to inform me of what all was happening and that he needed stitches and she would split my class. ( Houston didn't remember what happened, but we concluded that he must have tripped and fallen in the cafeteria and hit his eye on the metal brace under the lunch table) I called the doc and they said they could not do stitches but could maybe glue it. They couldn't get me in with his doc until 3:00 and this happened at 11:30. I took the next available appointment and headed to meet Tim at the house. We jumped in the car with him and went to the Dr. They looked at it and said after cleaning it, it was too deep to glue, so they set us up with a plastic surgeon. We then headed to the hospital to meet with the surgeon. As soon as we got there I posted on fbook for prayers b/c Hou started to get nervous and scared about what might happen. One of my very good friends had seen my post on fbook and asked what Dr we were seeing. She immediately began texting me and long story short, she works at the hospital we were sent to. I was filling out paperwork and was so surprised when she came into the waiting room to check on us. I felt so much better about putting my child's face in someone else's hands. She also gave Hou a cotton ball with numbing cream on it to prep him. Anyway, Houston was called back and they covered his body with towels except his eye and stitched him right up. Dr. Burris was bragging on how good of a patient Houston was compared to others he has worked on. They stuck the needle in and went to work without any complaints or problems. I was so proud of him for being so brave his first time. I, on the other hand was a nervous wreck watching it all take place and Tim couldn't even watch. (he passes out when he sees blood) . He got 4 or 5 stitches and they are dissolveable. How come they didn't have dissolveable stitches when we were kids? Life would have been so easier! haha

This was Houston on the car ride home.