Stitches

Tegegne fell into a table and split his head open. He was playing with his slinky and then boom! Kristyn grabbed him, as she was on the other side of the table, and we both ran him to a sink to wash his head and apply some pressure with a towel. Kristyn was a little shaken up, as you could imagine. Tegegne cried for sure, but he actually calmed himself down quite quickly. I was holding him pretty tight, and I think he knew he was going to be okay.

We took him to the Emergency Room at the Hospital down the street a tad and they took him in right away. He took one big stitch, and man did he hate it. They didn't numb his wound, so he had to take it like a champ. I held his head and one of our friends here, who is a medic, held his hands. To spare you the details, it was hard for him. He calmed himself down pretty well afterwards again, and the surgeon bandaged him up.

It was a relief to have Tim, our medic friend who is also adopting a sweet girl, Winnie, with his wife Abigail. We also had Laura, who is a P.A., give him some glue for his would as well. He is okay, quite tired from the experience. I am sure it is one of the many "scares" we will have, it is just a little more stressful in a third world country.

P.S. With Mom's incredible help, Tegegne has gone to the big potty twice today, and taken care of all sorts of important business there. So far, today was rather productive...