Urgent Care

On Monday (June 7th) Tom and Sawyer were working on the shed. It was going to rain that night so they were putting tarps over what was done so that the wood would not get wet. I was inside getting Mason ready for bed and I heard a cry come from Sawyer that meant he was hurt. I went out there to see what was up and Tom was already "inspecting" Sawyer to see what where the damage was. Neither one of us noticed anything so we figured he just fell and was overly tired which makes things always worse (it was his bedtime). I took him inside to get him ready for bed and figured I would notice something when I would put his PJ's on.

Once we got in the house I noticed that his eye was bleeding. I quickly looked at it and noticed that in the crease of his eyelid was a big cut. I ran back outside and hollered for Tom to come inside. After Tom looked at it we decided to take him into Urgent Care because we could not tell if his eye was damaged or not.

So now we knew he had fallen on a screw that was drilled half-way into the shed so that the tarps could be hooked on...YIKES!

Once they looked him over at UC they said that his eye was fine but that his cut was big enough for stitches. Neither one of us were 100% comfortable with this just because we know that Sawyer does not like to be held down and to have him fighting you while holding him down plus a needle going into his eyelid would not end well. They then informed us that we could glue the wound; this is what we did then.


Sawyer and daddy reading a book waiting for the Physician Assistant to come back in. They had brought the book in to test his eye sight. We covered up his "good" eye and then pointed to an object in the book and had Sawyer tell us what it was. He passed by saying "dog"!!!




The PA putting the glue on Sawyer's wound, the nurse (who is our neighbor) holding his head and shoulders down and Tom holding the rest of Sawyer down.




All patched up.



Then yesterday Sawyer was outside again helping daddy build the shed. Tom has a board laid out on top of two horses to create a table. Sawyer then took off running and didn't see where he was going due to the sun being in his eye and ran right into the board. The shed is beginning to win :(