Tonight Carter was walking into the dinning room and fell right into the wooden pole that connects the legs at the bottom of the chair. Of course Tom was at work when these things happen. I usually do pretty good with injuries but there is just something about a bleeding wound from the head that I get nervous about; there is just always so much more blood and worried about the brain. I ran over to him, picked him up, ran him to the bathroom all while saying to myself out loud "You can do this, You can do this". Once I got the bleeding to stop I finally looked at the wound and I was not sure if he would need stitches or not. I called my Mom who was actually with my Uncle Ron camping and after sending them picture they determined that he may need stitches. They advised me to keep ice on it to keep the swelling down. Of course Carter was not going to let me do that so I put him in the tub and tried to just run cool water over his wound since he does love water.
After that I called my neighbors to see if they had any butterfly bandages; no one had any at the time. My one neighbor, Amanda Steinle, came over to try to help me rig up a bandage that would work. With his small head and big wound we didn't have much luck. We decided to walk Carter over to her house to have Chad, he's a Sheriff, to look at it; he confirmed that he would take him in to the Doctor.
Once Tom came home and looked at it as well he also thought Urgent Care would be best. When they got there the nurse even said that it was about a 4 stitch worthy wound. We are not big fans of stitches so we requested the glue. They ended up using two tubes of glue on it. Tom said that Carter was awesome; he never moved the entire time!
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