How Was Your Week?

The nurse at the plastic surgeon's office today said that Eddie's cut was about a cm long--sure seems a lot longer. The ER Doctor had referred us to this Plastic Surgeon and said to visit on Friday to get the stitches removed.

Eddie and I dutifully took 2 hours and went down only to be told that they wanted to wait until Tuesday to take the stitches out. Is he an active child? Is he the type to jump off the couch? I chuckled as I answered and said that he is also the type to make quick sudden movements and is always bumping into things.

They said even a slight bump could cause things to reopen, so we'll know more on Tuesday. They also corrected our course of treatment slightly, telling us the neosporin would help the stitches just slide out--we were told not to apply it on the day the stitches were to be removed.

We've been following a course of cleaning with a wet-down cotten ball 5-6 times day, followed each time by neosporin. It looks really good, if I do say so myself. The doctor thought he would have some slight scaring because of the direction of the cut. I had told him that the doctor would want to look at and touch his cut, so he was prepped for that, yet he was still perfectly mellow about the whole thing, to the point of kicking off his shoes on the exam table. Guess telling him not to put his shoes on the couch is rubbing in.



So Monday was the ER, Tuesday Josie broke out in a rash and we went to the peds office to find she's got Roseola, which once the fever breaks--which it had on Sunday, she is no longer contagious. At least we got her ears checked out as she had been scratching her ears and head like crazy (has since subsided) AND I got someone to make sure Ed's cut looked okay.

Wed. I had a doctor's visit and then Friday this one. At least I had Thurs. off from doctors visits. Eddie refused to stand next to Josie for a photo and for some reason started plugging his ears. Hmmm.

Josie has started to drink out of Eddie's 'straw' cups. It's pretty funny. So I guess we can start moving her off the bottle.

And in other house training behaviors, Eddie routinely asks that a coaster be placed under his sippy cup. I'm not kidding.

Tonight, Eddie kept throwing his ball around his room. We'd told him repeatedly to stop throwing the ball. The next time was going to be a time out. Well, he knocked the lamp in Josie's room over with the ball, runs into his room, puts his hands on the wall for a time out. Hard not to laugh at that.

I'm just happy we're all just about healthy again after 2 weeks of illness and no sleep. Den and I are ready for bed.