Day 198

This morning Ryan was playing with a small children's ride on toy when he hit a bump that was actually a protruding tree root. It managed to flip him over and the toy landed right on top of him. There was a blunt pointy part which actually punctured his forehead above the left eye. The minute I saw it, I knew we would be taking a trip to the hospital.

Ryan is terrified of the hospital, so I think he was crying more over the trip to the ER than the cut itself. He was shaking with fear for the first half hour there but once he met the nurse, he calmed down considerable. There was a big emergency so we had a big wait time ahead of us. We took a few walks around the hospital, and had lunch in the cafeteria and suddenly the hospital was a very cool place.

5 hours later, it was time to get in and see the doctor and he was back to being scared and shakey. His eyes got red and teared up and he was so scared of getting stitches. The Dr. took a look and instead got out some glue, within 5 minutes he was all healed up and he was so surprised. I think he had it in his head that he was going to end up with some kind of big scary procedure. He was so happy and proud of himself when we left..."I was really brave, Mom!" He's also loving showing off his new glued head.

Here is the big hole before...

During...

And after, all patched up...