Caydence: ER visit...for Tanner

Last night after we just finished up doing Caydence's bath and trach tie change, we were getting things put away and cleaning up when Tanner came running into the living room and tripped and smacked his head on the coffee table. As soon as Eric saw it he started yelling that we needed to leave and go to the hospital. At first I was like ok, calm down, can't be that bad, I grabbed a rag and put it on Tanner's head to stop the bleeding as Eric ran off to get shoes on to leave, as soon as I moved that rag to actually look at how bad it was, I think I just screamed. It looked like he had a huge chunk missing from right between his eyebrows. I couldn't believe how bad it actually was. You could see all the tissue inside and it just wasn't a pretty sight. As soon as we got shoes on we jumped in the car and headed to the hospital. They got us right in and said he would need stitches. They first put some kind of numbing cream on it and wrapped his head up which really helped. They asked if we wanted to sedate him for the stitches which we said yes and it was a good thing that we did because poor kid ended up getting 5 stitches on the inside and 10 stitches on the outside. He was a champ the whole time. They put an IV in and gave him cetamine for sedation. The doctor did a really good job stitching it up and getting the line really straight. We had to wait and hour after it was done just to make sure he came out of the sedation ok. He did really well and we were out of there. I couldn't believe how well he did with everything from the time it happened. He hardly cried at all. Tough boy! I hope he will listen to us next time we tell him no running in the house. We thought we had our hands full with Caydence, never thought we would end up spending time in the ER with Tanner.