Our first trip to the ER

Warning: Pictures show blood! Bekah this is for you! :)

Last night Luke was running around and tripped and hit the corner of our bookshelf. He sliced right above his right eye. We got out the ice and tried to stop the bleeding. After a while it kept swelling and opening up more and more. I texted our pediatrician friend a picture to ask if he needed stitches. He decided to come over and get a better look at it. When he got there and looked at it he decided it would be better to put in a few stitches to close it up. Luke did great while Justin looked at him! What a blessing to have a great friend like that! Here's the before shot:

Once we got into the room, Luke had to put on a gown. I thought that might be a possible meltdown since he had to take off his pjs but we called it his "special shirt" and he instantly fell in love with it! :)

Then we had the special stickers on his belly (heart monitor) and special sticker with the light on his thumb (pulse maybe?). He did GREAT!!! Until it was time for the anesthesia shot... He cried like any kid would getting a shot that big and said, "Hold you Mommy!!!!" It was horrible since I couldn't pick him up with all the wires on him!

After a few minutes he was out and Justin started putting in the 2 stitches. Jonathan watched... I knew better! :) It went really smoothly and Luke was probably only out for about 45 minutes.

Right about the time Luke was coming to I started to get really light headed. I tried to tell Jonathan but couldn't get the words out. I ended up blacking out and the nurse gave me some oxygen. Poor Jonathan was trying to keep my head from falling over and make sure Luke knew we were there as he was waking up. We were again grateful Justin was there to be another familiar face for Luke. I was fine after a few minutes and think it was just the adrenaline wearing off.

He wanted to go see Dr. Justin:

Luke was pretty entertaining in his grogginess! And did great handling the coming out of the medicine. We were home by 11 and put him to bed. We checked on him a few more times before we went to bed and he was doing fine.

He woke up this morning being his normal self which was such a relief! This is what it looked like this morning.

We were so thankful that he hit where he did and not on his eye. He just might have a black eye just in time for his birthday party! :)