We, as a family, are not big on celebrating the anniversaries of the little things that happen in our lives.
This is one that I have to share.
It has been a year since my baby's stitches!
Look at the difference a year makes!
Love it!
For those that don't know or don't remember...
On June 8, The Boy and I were in the kitchen getting ready to make pudding pops. The Girl was playing in The Boys room.
We heard a scream and crying. I ran down the hall and there she was... blood running down her face.
I knew it was bad so I grabbed some paper towels and threw the kiddos in the car. I managed to drive, with The Girl on my lap to the house of a friend and I commandeered her daughter (still in her jammies). The Boy did not want to go to the hospital, so he got out and stayed with the friends little guys.
I never once thought of going to the emergency room. Weird, huh? Must have been shock.
I took her to an urgent care and they kindly sent me to the emergency room.
Once there, they got her in pretty quickly and the doctor gave her a drug that put her completely out! (Scared the dickens out of me!) They started sewing her head shut. Three layers of stitching. The first was down at the bottom, by the bone. The second was a traveling stitch (I would have called it a basting stitch). It's purpose was to keep the two sides together after they remove the top stitches. And then the top layer of stitching. That is lots of stitches in my baby's head!
To sum up, I think I was in worse shape than The Girl!
The "before" picture was taken after we got back from the emergency room.
Yep, she was fine! I was the one who needed a nap!
For the next year, I faithfully put Scarguard on the scar. That is it.
Occasionally, I would rub it with Vitamin E oil to check for scar tissue build up, but there wasn't any. YEAH!
Here we are today. I haven't put anything on her scar for a while now. I do keep her pretty well covered in sunscreen, but that is it!
I can't wait to see how this looks in a couple of years. Most people don't even realize that The Girl has a scar.
YEAH!
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