Five Hours and Five or Six Stitches Later

Tonight was a very long and sad night. It is very late and Kent is still unwinding from the evening so I thought I would tell you about it. I had told my neighbor that I would watch her kids this evening and Kent wanted to go to his bosses son's football game. Kent decided to make it a father and son outing so he took Braxton. Well Kent could only contain Braxton for so long and then Braxton wanted to wander. Finally Kent gave him a little freedom and his little legs missed the step and landed him into the bleacher in front of them. Kent called me and asked what to do with a cut above the eyelash. He was finally able to get a good look at the wound and saw that it was a small gash on his lower eyelid. I ran over to tell the neighbor I could watch her kids and Kent picked me up to head to the Dr. office. Well long story short, because of his age and the location of the cut Braxton had to be sedated in order to stitch his eyelid. This meant we were heading to Primary Children's Hospital. It took about two hours waiting to get a room and once the procedure was over we had to wait for the drugs to wear off. We finally left the ER at about 11:15 after arriving there at about 6:30. It was so sad to see my little boy all drugged up and out of it. I hope to never see him that way again.

Update: He is doing well this morning and showing no signs of being bothered by his eye. It hasn't appeared at all that his eye was affected or that he had any head trauma. I am so very grateful that his injury was so minor considering how major it could have been. The sad part about all of this was how awful Kent seemed to feel that he hadn't prevented it. He was very kind to want to take his son out and spend time with him and then this happened. I hope it won't make Kent leary of taking Braxton on his own again.