Last night Abel had the stomach flu so we wondered what today would be like. Here is the summary: Ellie felt sick and spent most of the day in front of the TV on the couch, Olivia came home from school around 10 and joined her on the couch. Abel was still recovering and was mainly on the couch. Then at 2 we got a call from school that Ethan, the only really healthy one, had fallen and cut his head. He and his classmates were so excited that the firefighters had come to talk to the class that they were sort of jumping around the room. Ethan tripped over a friend's foot and hit his head on a table. He got a huge gash right on his eyebrow. Fortunately, the firefighters were right there to administer first aid! Kevin was working at home so I brought Ethan to the ER where after almost 3 hours of waiting he got 8 lovely stitches! Thank goodness I did not take pictures of the gash when it was open!!
Ethan was a real trooper and greatly appreciated the PlayStation and Slushie the nurse brought him. The doctor thought the game was a great distraction so he set things up so that Ethan could play while he stitched! Ethan will have a scar but maybe he will get Grandpa VanderWall's eyebrows and no one will see it!
Oh my goodness! Hope everyone feels better real soon!!
Posted by: Papa and Grandma | October 09, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Wow!
Melanie
Posted by: Melanie H | October 11, 2008 at 04:25 PM