First Trip to Urgent Care

Emma has been standing more and more on her own lately, and tonight that led her to falling and hitting her head on our coffee table. It bled pretty good at first, and then changed to a slow ooze. She of course cried when it happened, but quickly went back to her happy self. She really only cried when we were wiping it. I was afraid that the gash was a little too deep, and thought she might need stitches. Robert wasn't so sure, so he thought it would be a good idea to talk to his mom since she is a nurse. After we sent her these pictures.....




She thought we needed to get it looked at.

So off we headed to an urgent care. I knew that there was a medication they could use that would numb her skin when they did the stitches. But at that moment, I couldn't think and couldn't remember what the name was. Jessica's husband, Matt, works in the ED at Phoenix Children's so I gave them a call to find out what medicine we needed to ask for. Thankfully they also reminded me that PCH has an Urgent Care center out by us, so we went there instead.

We didn't have to wait too long before they saw us. The first thing they had to do was clean her wound. She didn't like this at all. I held her, while the nurse squeezed 4 huge syringes into the wound. After this was done, she had a little bit of a break while we talked to the Doctor about what we should we do. He gave us the choice between stitches and glue. They each had their own downfalls. Stitches = traumatic experience, Glue = possibility of it not sticking. So after lots of talk, we decided to go with the glue. The Doctor said that if he didn't think the glue wouldn't work for us and the location of the gash, then he wouldn't have recommended it. So wanting to keep this as less traumatic as we could, we went with the glue. She still didn't like it very much, but it is done and we are back home.
For the next 7 days we will really watch her and make sure she doesn't rub her eye, bump it on anything, or get wet. Starting tomorrow we can cover it with a band aid, so that should help some. The first thing Robert did when we got home is remove the coffee table. We didn't really need it anyway, and now Emma has more room to play!
Here are some pictures after we got home.







Dinner always makes everything better!