Man on man! Riley got his 1st pretty big "boo boo" last Saturday (Jan 9th). Of course, while Kelly was gone! I actually handled it pretty well considering all the blood, but it was like the longer it went on the more I lost it!
In the end, it probably wasn't *that* big of a deal! I'm not even sure how he did it. I have a hypothesis, but I didn't see it happen so I can't be sure. Basically, he was getting his juice bottle out of the pantry, and my guess is that as he pulled the juice bottle off the shelf and it went to fall to the floor - he was still trying to hold it and it hit one of the shelves on the door and popped him in the lip.
Unfortunately, I was cutting up his snack so I was focused on not cutting my own fingers off and missed all the action! When I turned around he was screaming and it looked like he was coughing chunks of blood out of his mouth.
I picked him up, but I couldn't see ANYTHING for all the blood gushing out. I took a kitchen towel and tried to apply pressure to his mouth, but as soon as I would pull the towel away again - blood gushing. And as he coughed from crying so hard more what appeared to be chunks of blood. I had no idea if his tooth had gone through his skin, if teeth had been knocked out or broken! It was a little crazy for a second!
Finally, I got him calmed down and tried to assess the damage. It looked like a boxer's eye cut, but it was right by his lip. There were actually 2 of them with the top one being the worst. I had to take pictures of it and send them to my Mom's phone so she could help me assess the damage and decide whether it warranted stitches or not. In the end, it began to close on it's own, and we decided holding him down for stitches would actually be more traumatic than having a little character scar!
Wow though! I'm totally not ready for this "rough and tumble" boy stuff!! Knock on wood, but Kelly and I neither one have had stitches or broken bones! I'm thinking based on Riley's activity level up to this point - that story may change with him! It remains to be seen!
Here's the pic I sent to my Mom for assessment after we finally got the bleeding to stop.
All this commotion made me realize we need a 1st aid kit! We don't even have band-aids! Luckily, I at least had Neosporin!
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