With as "graceful" as Miss Avery is, I'm truly surprised it took her this long to get her first stitches. We were at Nana & Poppy's house and I was getting ready to give A a bath. She was undressing herself and as she pulled her shorts down, she stumbled and smacked her chin right on the edge of the bathtub. She immediately started screaming and I thought she hit her mouth...as I was trying to look in her mouth, I noticed the blood pouring from the underside of her chin. She had a clean split that was bleeding pretty good. She calmed down and then really acted pretty normal. After cleaning it up and getting a good look, I felt like she might need a butterfly bandage or maybe some glue on it. So Nana and I loaded her up and took her to the Urgent Care clinic at Har-Ber Meadows. We were the only people there (thank goodness!) and so we got right in to see the doc. He was FABULOUS with her. After checking it out, he told us he felt the best action would be a few stitches...he said due to the location of it (right on the bone), that the butterfly bandages won't stay on and the glue tends not to hold. So after mummy wrapping her in a bed sheet (pure torture!), I had to pretty much lay on top of her to hold her body still, while Nana held her shoulders and the nurse held her head still--she screamed bloody murder the ENTIRE time and was completely wet with sweat (as we all were) when it was all said and done. Somehow, the doc got 3 stitches in and he did a fantastic job on them. Nana, Avery, and I were all worn out when the experience was over. Hopefully no more stitches for a LONG WHILE!!
