Not the FIRST and surely not the LAST!

Yesterday about 4 o'clock, Steve and I were making our way upstairs to get ready to take Carson to see some bunnies at a friends house.  Carson ran upstairs and dove into the dog bed which happens to be a chair in our room.  He over shot the chair and landed his head directly into the corner of the armoire.  (See that pointed piece of molding that sticks out on the armoire in the picture below?? Yeah, that is what he hit)  Steve saw the whole thing from the top of the stairs.  I heard him say, "That's gonna hurt."  I came running to find Carson's head gushing blood everywhere.  (Ok, so I may be exaggerating a tad on the amount of blood, but to a mom, it seemed like a lot!)

With all the blood we couldn't tell how big or deep the gash was.  I had our neighbor, Michelle, come over for a second opinion.  I then called another neighbor, Dave, who happens to be a PA in the ER at the local Clovis Hospital.  He was working and wasn't home.  Michelle in turn calls yet another neighbor who happens to be a nurse in the ER at the Fresno Hospital.  Janet came right over and declared that he did indeed need staples.  My heart sunk. 

We called Dave at work in the ER at Clovis Community.  He said that they were really backed up but he would be willing to meet us in the parking lot to put in some staples without numbing ointment.  My tears started falling at this point.  However, this would make for a great story, I wanted other options. 

The next suggestion was to glue it.  Janet ran home to see if she had any derma-bond but didn't have any on hand.  

Clovis ER was backed up so we headed to St. Agnes in Fresno.   There, we waited a short while before being seen.  Once into the Intake Room, we waited some more.  While we waited Carson played patiently. 

Side note... Earlier in the day, Carson got his finger caught in a step stool that caused some serious bleeding to his finger.  

Back at the hospital while Carson was playing, we started to notice blood.  Blood everywhere.  All over the white sheet on the bed, on the floor, on Steve.  Thinking his head was gushing again, we were wrong.  It was his finger, of all things.  We were seriously a disaster hoping that the hospital wasn't going to call CPS!!

Not long after we stopped the bleeding from his finger, his head DID start to bleed again as well, with blood pouring off of his forehead.  What a MESS!!!  

 

Carson remained calm and unaffected by the blood.  The nurse came to apply numbing ointment to the wound and a tech came to clean his head of all the blood.  Carson was then given TWO staples in the top of his head.   He cried for a brief second and was fine.  

After a few hours, we were released from the hospital and took Carson to see the bunnies as promised.  He is acting and playing normal.  I pretty sure he is going to be fine.  

Carson is two and this was his second trip to the emergency room.  I have a feeling that it won't be the last!