Good times. I got to do the same thing last year with my 5 year old daughter and a gash over her eye. She was fine during the stitching. A nurse and I had to pin her arms and legs while the doctor was anesthetizing the cut, with her screaming bloody murder.
Can I make another recommendation? If you take a four year old grocery shopping, there are very good reasons why your child is supposed to sit in the front of the cart.
And I should add that you and Newt have my sympathies. In 2 I was having a flashback to being a 4 year old being rushed to the emergency room, not quite knowing what was going on but very aware that I'd never seen my mom look so worried.
Glad to hear the hospital functioned well, and sorry to hear about the trouble generally. As a commiserating exampe: I got stitches in my scalp at the age of two (in a foreign, non-primarily English speaking country), and again, in the same area, at five or six. I think I came out fine, but you guys are entitled to your own opinion on that.
When I was young I visited the emergency room on a regular basis. My mom still jokes that I financed a new wing at the local hospital (although I suspect she wasn't really joking).
Anyway, the appropriate story is the one when I was bitten twice by my aunt's cocker spaniel because I stepped on its foot (accidentally - I was two years-old, for chrissake). Apparently I had to be restrained and they wrapped me in a blanket. The doctor told me I could be like Superman. I told him in lil' kid speak that I didn't want to be a Duperman. My mom still loves that story.
oh, but under the chin is a tender place, next to neck muscles. hope he feels better.
the vitamin E stuff cala mentioned works wonders too, especially if you buy gel tabs of vitamin E, open them up with a knife, and put the insides on the wound once it has closed up.
(as i was once instructed to do by a plastic surgeon, after splitting my eyebrow open at age 19 & getting many many stitches to put me back together again...is nearly invisible now).
My parents always told the story of how I had to get stiches on the palm of my hand when I was 3, and everything was going fine until the nurse looked up at my dad, who was turning green. They had to have someone rush in to get him into a chair with his head between his knees so he wouldn't pass out.
buy gel tabs of vitamin E, open them up with a knife, and put the insides on the wound
I have seen the future! The emergency room at St. Lukes/Roosevelt, 113th and Amsterdam? Really very pleasant and well run. Lovely people. If you ever cut your hand open with a knife, I can't say enough good things about them.
Hey, thanks for all the sympathy. It really wasn't all that bad - aside from the moments in which he was actually being stitched, Newt held it together admirably, and was mostly just demanding an explanation of what everything in the emergency room was.
Good times. I got to do the same thing last year with my 5 year old daughter and a gash over her eye. She was fine during the stitching. A nurse and I had to pin her arms and legs while the doctor was anesthetizing the cut, with her screaming bloody murder.
Posted by gswift | Link to this comment | 04- 7-06 9:20 PM
Can I make another recommendation? If you take a four year old grocery shopping, there are very good reasons why your child is supposed to sit in the front of the cart.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 04- 7-06 9:26 PM
Oh, poor Newt! How'd he manage that?
(Vitamin E oil will help reduce the scar, once the stitches are out.)
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 04- 7-06 9:27 PM
Oooh! So sorry to hear it! There's nothing worse than watching a child in pain.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 04- 7-06 9:29 PM
2: why is this comment different from all other comments?
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 04- 7-06 9:36 PM
And I should add that you and Newt have my sympathies. In 2 I was having a flashback to being a 4 year old being rushed to the emergency room, not quite knowing what was going on but very aware that I'd never seen my mom look so worried.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 04- 7-06 9:37 PM
5: Because this day we remember when Moses rode a grocery cart out of Egypt?
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 04- 7-06 9:40 PM
Oh no! I'm so sorry. I feel grateful more often than you'd think that PK hasn't yet had stitches....
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 04- 7-06 9:41 PM
Glad to hear the hospital functioned well, and sorry to hear about the trouble generally. As a commiserating exampe: I got stitches in my scalp at the age of two (in a foreign, non-primarily English speaking country), and again, in the same area, at five or six. I think I came out fine, but you guys are entitled to your own opinion on that.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 04- 7-06 9:42 PM
7: Ja, aber wieso?
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 04- 7-06 9:42 PM
#8
You're not a real parent until you've seen a fountain of blood erupt from your childs head.
Posted by gswift | Link to this comment | 04- 7-06 9:46 PM
11: Sehr schnell. Moses stellte ein Kamel an, um ihn zu ziehen.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 04- 7-06 9:46 PM
12: Ja, aber wie erinnern wir uns, daß er das getan hat?
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 04- 7-06 9:52 PM
#12
An attempt at Babel Fish gave me something about "Moses employed a camel", so naturally I google "Moses camel"
And what comes up as the fifth hit? That's right, a page of camel toe haiku.
Violent pink maelstrom
Down goes the good ship Spandex
Lost in Straits of Toe
God I love the internet.
Posted by gswift | Link to this comment | 04- 7-06 10:05 PM
Ouch! Poor kid. And poor you. When I was in law school I lived eight blocks from that hospital, at 121st and Amsterdam (or was it 120th?).
That camel-toe haiku is hilarious, gswift.
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 04- 7-06 10:44 PM
You're not a real parent until you've seen a fountain of blood erupt from your childs head.
Yeah, that stuff's scary scary scary as a parent. But the kid gets crazy cool points with his peer group.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 04- 8-06 12:44 AM
When I was young I visited the emergency room on a regular basis. My mom still jokes that I financed a new wing at the local hospital (although I suspect she wasn't really joking).
Anyway, the appropriate story is the one when I was bitten twice by my aunt's cocker spaniel because I stepped on its foot (accidentally - I was two years-old, for chrissake). Apparently I had to be restrained and they wrapped me in a blanket. The doctor told me I could be like Superman. I told him in lil' kid speak that I didn't want to be a Duperman. My mom still loves that story.
Posted by Jon McGee | Link to this comment | 04- 8-06 2:46 AM
oh, but under the chin is a tender place, next to neck muscles. hope he feels better.
the vitamin E stuff cala mentioned works wonders too, especially if you buy gel tabs of vitamin E, open them up with a knife, and put the insides on the wound once it has closed up.
(as i was once instructed to do by a plastic surgeon, after splitting my eyebrow open at age 19 & getting many many stitches to put me back together again...is nearly invisible now).
Posted by mmf! | Link to this comment | 04- 8-06 3:03 AM
Eek, sorry LB!
My parents always told the story of how I had to get stiches on the palm of my hand when I was 3, and everything was going fine until the nurse looked up at my dad, who was turning green. They had to have someone rush in to get him into a chair with his head between his knees so he wouldn't pass out.
Silly dad.
Posted by Matthew Harvey | Link to this comment | 04- 8-06 5:49 AM
buy gel tabs of vitamin E, open them up with a knife, and put the insides on the wound
I have seen the future! The emergency room at St. Lukes/Roosevelt, 113th and Amsterdam? Really very pleasant and well run. Lovely people. If you ever cut your hand open with a knife, I can't say enough good things about them.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 04- 8-06 6:35 AM
Hey, thanks for all the sympathy. It really wasn't all that bad - aside from the moments in which he was actually being stitched, Newt held it together admirably, and was mostly just demanding an explanation of what everything in the emergency room was.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 04- 8-06 6:42 AM