Sling Shots and Stitches - Post for February 12, 2010

Here are a couple of pictures of Sam's most recent mishap. The boys love our missionary display table! In fact, we have to keep constant vigil because they like to take the stuff for themselves. A couple of months ago the boys took a Venezuelan sling shot from the table, and we figured we would just let them play with it. Well, Sam decided to play with it the other day and so he grasped the wood handle in one hand and pulled back on the surgical tubing with the other. The only problem was that he let go with the wrong hand. The wood "y" came back and hit him in the face and put a hole in his lip (completely through). Usually we try not to worry too much about bumps and bruises because boys will always be boys, but as soon as I heard Sam scream I knew something was wrong. I ran out of the office and Sarah already had a blood-soaked towel on the fresh wound. Sam was a bit hysteric for a minute or so at the sight of all the blood, but he calmed down pretty quickly. As soon as Sarah pulled away the towel, I started getting ready to go to the hospital because even though the hole was not very big, it was gaped open and would not stay closed. Less than 5 minutes after it happened, Sam was totally calmed down and he watched a video all the way to children's emergency. He was such a trooper through the whole thing and never cried once even when the doctors and nurses were messing with it. They numbed his cut with a jelly-like paste and gave him two stitches. He didn't even cry when they started sewing his lip. He is one tough little cookie. Anyway, there were only 2 stitches and they are only in for about 5 days. They are supposed to dissolve on their own and they are very light colored so that they do not stand out too much!