OOPS!! More April...

Long story short...

Mid-April, Josh "accidentally" hit Eli in the head with a 2-3 pound rock. We AGAIN learned the lesson: head wounds bleed A LOT!! Left kids with Ansley and lovely neighbor, Mrs. Sandusky and drove like crazy to the hospital in Mesquite. 35 minute drive in under 20 minutes! Said a prayer on the way. Eli calmed down. Bleeding slowed down. Got right into the E.R. (small towns have their perks...a friend took her son into an E.R. in Las Vegas the week before this for stitches and they had a 3 hour wait!!) Eli called Josh to tell him that he was OK so that Josh could stop crying and calm down. Head CT came back normal...no skull fracture. Stitches...Eli didn't cry and held perfectly still. Dr. told Eli he was the best pediatric patient he had seen all month. He was so amazing and brave. Went to a drive-thru on the way home to get Eli some dinner. We were going to go in somewhere, but it turns out we were all covered in blood and we looked like we were straight out of a horror film. We are blessed that it wasn't much worse. And for the record: This was the first time in 10 years that Kyle has been home when an emergency required a trip to the E.R. (there have been many!). The kids just always get hurt and sick when he is at work. We love Eli, but we know this is just one of many (no, it isn't his first) more trips to the E.R.!

This is the hole in Eli's head. After the Dr. cut his hair and then cleaned and irrigated the wound, Kyle asked him to step back so he could take a photo. This picture does not do the hole in his head justice!

In the first picture, Eli is waiting to go get his head CT. That picture was taken AFTER we cleaned him up. Did I mention there was A LOT of blood? And no...I didn't grab my camera before leaving for the hospital. These pictures were taken with Kyle's cell phone.