Stitches, a Pool, and a Neverending Hose

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Our poor little Asa man had to have stitches last week. Not just any stitches, either, ten of 'em. Right in his upper lip! He crashed on the electric scooter (thankfully he was wearing a helmet) and slammed his face into the handlebars. The lip just split wide open, all the way up to the normal skin. It was awful. Luckily, Nate was home and our kids are awesome (and Emmie was asleep), so Nate and I were both able to take Asa over to the doctor.

Asa was so, so brave. The doctor was pretty nervous to stitch him up. Our pediatrician was off that day, so it was a family practitioner, and I think he'd had some bad experiences stitching up little guys before. The numbing portion was horrible. Asa screamed at the top of his lungs. But he held perfectly still. Then after he was numbed up, they put a drape over his head, so he wouldn't have to watch the doctor coming at him with a needle repeatedly, and we all relaxed and the doctor got to work. Nate got a little woozy at one point and had to sit down. Lesson learned: don't watch the stitches going in! 

Our neighbor Nolan went to check up on the kids while the doctor finished up, and we stopped on the way home to get our brave little guy a slurpee, which he'd earned times 50. Five days later we got the stitches taken out, which was rather unpleasant, and now our boy's good as new! It's worth noting that he's had his chin stitched/glued three times, his head stapled once, and now the lip. The boy lives all the way!

Pretty wiped out physically and emotionally!



Here are just two examples of Ace living life to the fullest. 

He built a swimming pool and made good use of it one night.

Another day, he spent the better part of an afternoon creating his masterpiece, the "Neverending Hose." Our Ace is one of a kind!


Comments

Bri said…
ASA WAITE IS SO GREAT. Seriously, what a delightful child. It made me so sad to read that it hurt him when he got his stitches out, but I'm glad he's ok!
May 24, 2020 at 6:51 PM
Megan said…
OUCH. His track record is intense! That hose is SO long. And his one-man swimming pool is genius!
June 15, 2020 at 6:52 AM
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