Sunday Stitches

This Sunday we added a little excitement to church - Luke busted his head open on a pew! Well, thankfully church was over and many people had already gone home. We were gathering everyone together, and as usual, he was running around and chasing some other kids. Thankfully my parents were home and live close to church, so we dropped the other kids off at their house and went to Marcus' office for stitches (thirteen to be exact). He did really well sitting still, and Marcus did a great job, too!! We were back at my parents by 1:00 and Luke was bouncing off the walls (well, literally, jumping on chairs) in minutes.

Thankfully, this incidence was less traumatic than the first set of stitches for the Ueltschey boys. The first round, over a year ago, we had a babysitter while we were going out for dinner. Before we got two blocks from home, we received a call from our frantic sounding sitter (who is usually very calm!). She said Ben had fallen and hurt himself, and indeed he had! When we pulled up Ben was standing in the door screaming, with blood everywhere and his ear halfway off. The other kids and sweet sitter were standing there as pale as a ghost and eyes wide open! I yelled to Marcus that he better leave the car running, that we needed to go to the ER fast! He calmly proceeded to remind me that he does do stitches on a regular basis as part of his career, and that it would be quicker, easier and cheaper to go to his office. I reluctantly agreed, not becuase I questioned his skills, but could he work on his own son? Well, Ben's ear now looks wonderful and you can hardly tell his ear was ever cut in half! Needless to say, this time I gladly went to the clinic rather than the hospital!