Evan's Big Fall

Last Friday we went to a cookie party at Susan's house. The party was a lot of fun, until Evan got hurt. Carl was wrestling with a bunch of kids in the basement and he knocked Evan with a ball. Poor Evan stumbled and fell into the fireplace and got a large cut above his eye and a small cut on his nose. Evan was in a lot of pain and was crying and screaming. The cut above his eye seemed pretty deep and it was bleeding a lot, so we took Evan to the emergency room at the new Kosair Children's hospital.

We did not have a wait at the hospital, which was great. Evan had to get the cut cleaned, which really hurt, but he was SO brave! Once the nurse practitioner saw that the cut was pretty straight, she decided that she could glue it together, instead of stitch it. What good news! They numbed the cut for about a half and hour, while Evan watched a movie and enjoyed a slushy. Once the area was numbed, they glued it together and we were discharged. Since Evan was SO brave, we took him to Meijer before heading home, so that he could pick out a toy. Of course, he picked out a package of planes!

Evan's cut is healing really well. He keeps a bandage on it to keep it clean and dry, but he won't have to do that much longer. Let's hope this next year is filled with fewer trips to the emergency room!

(The nurse practitioner that took care of Evan, used to work in the N.I.C.U at Norton and took care of Evan when he was born! She remembered Evan and she took wonderful care of him again! What a small world!)