# 4 Scariest Moment Ever - December 23, 2010
Addie playing around in Andrew's jumper, never mind the fact that she is way too big for it. She gets into it, but struggles getting out, and falls, which wouldn't be a big deal if she just fell onto the carpeted floor. But no, she falls into the fireplace and smacks her head against the ledge. Mike immediately picks her up and covers the back of her head with his hand only to pull it away and see that it is completely covered in blood. She is screaming and he is panicking. I am trying to get them to hold still enough so that I can work through her matted hair to assess the damage. She definitely needs stitches, about a 2 inch gash. So we wrap her head up in a towel and load both of the kids up to make a trip to the emergency room. We get there and stand in line for a good 5 minutes will her head is still bleeding only to be told that is it a two hour wait. Really two hours? The response I received was, "Yes, two hours, people are dying, wait your turn." Alright then. After about 30 minutes in the waiting room we were called in for a pre-screen of sorts and they advised us to go to Urgent Care, which was just down the hall, but didn't open up for another 45 minutes. So off we went down to put our names on the first come first serve waiting list (we were second in line) to find out if they would be able to stitch up her head. Luckily we were called in about 10 minutes after they opened and they were able to put staples in her head. Just imagine a staple gun going into the back of your child's head, it was disturbing, but she did wonderfully and only started to cry when the Dr. put the last staple in wrong and had to take it out and restaple. Really Doc? You couldn't practice your stapling technique a bit?
After several hours at the hospital we made it home and put Addie to bed with some Tylenol and a towel on her pillow (she was extremely concerned about getting blood on her pillow and requested to have a towel on her pillow for the next week, although the bleeding had pretty much stopped after the staples.) However, it did take me about an hour of scrubbing to get all of the blood out of her brand new gingerbread pj's that she had just received from Cari as a Christmas present!
10 days later, Mike took her back to Urgent Care to get the staples removed - and found out that they don't numb the area when they remove the staples. Are you kidding me? Pulling 6 staples out of a 3 year old's head with no numbing agent? Poor little girl.
Since then her hair has completely grown back in with minimal scaring and she has long forgotten the whole incident, except when we bring it up to remind her to be careful.
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