Well, he did it this time! Tanner managed to get himself taken to the hospital. What started out to be a typical conniption fit turned into something a little more grisly. As is customary, Tanner was dragged into his room as punishment after he pitched his sister's i-pod for no good reason. Then he started head banging, which is also typical. I went about my women's work and waited out the storm. After the book throwing and head thumping stopped I checked in on him. What I saw was a kid sitting on the carpet passively turning pages of a picture book. But I did a double take because the kid was all bloody. He looked up at me, pointed to his head and then to the blood splattered on the wall. For the most part scalp wounds look worse than they really are because of the vasculature of the tissue, ie. the head bleeds like the dickens, so I didn't panic. What I saw however, was a pretty sizable laceration which I couldn't fix by ignoring it. So I got him into the tub and cleaned him up. By this time Tanner was feeling playful and just wanted to splash around as if nothing had happened to his head. I cut bath time short by telling him we were going to go for a ride in the car. Yipppee!
Once at the emergency room Tanner was in his own private heaven because he got to watch TV while laying down on a bed (which is totally cool!). For almost three hours we flipped through channels, turned on the oxygen, turned off the lights, pushed every button in the room. It was super fun! Different people came in and out but didn't do anything to him so he thought he was King for a day. Finally at the three hour mark a bunch of people came in, wrapped him up like a burrito, held him down and put six staples in his head. It took less than five minutes. I was seriously considering swiping a staple gun so that I could do it myself the next time.
Tanner laughed all the way home. And I again seriously fantacized about obtaining a staple gun and some iodine and some staple removers and some numbing medicine and......
just a flesh wound!
cool hospital bed
two lacerations and six staples
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