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Since I use this blog as a bit of a per­sonal jour­nal, to remem­ber dates and hap­pen­ings, I should duti­fully note that last night was the time four year old Theo pushed two year old Fran­cis off the foot­stool while brush­ing teeth, caus­ing said Fran­cis to fall pre­cip­i­tously against the bath­tub and open a nasty gash in his chin. Three hours and a Martin/Francis emer­gency room visit later there were four stitches in the poor guy’s chin. I’ll spare you all a descrip­tion of the ini­tial mess or the dif­fi­culty of hold­ing down a scream­ing child while the doc­tor tries to put the stitches in. Every­thing is fine now. And no, no pho­tos or Youtube videos of the pro­ceed­ings. Maybe I’ll snap a pic­ture of the stitches so Fran­cis can see just where that scar came from!

  • http://www.quakerranter.org/ Mar­tin Kelley

    This is Julie com­ment­ing. Thanks for the kind thoughts. Fran­cis is fine. He doesn’t like it when I change his ban­dages and I KNOW he won’t like it when he has his stitches removed, but the advan­tage of hav­ing a child his age go through this is that he lives in the moment, so gets over things pretty quickly.

  • http://www.imperfectserenity.com Eileen Flana­gan

    Oh, Mar­tin, let me just say that I have totally been there (the emer­gency room, that is). I’ve taken three trips to the ER with my chil­dren now (both of whom are turn­ing out just fine with only minor scar­ing). Far more dif­fi­cult, though, have been the times when one kid hurt the other, sorely test­ing my prac­tice of the peace tes­ti­mony. I was an only child, so I had no basis for under­stand­ing when my tod­dler hit her baby brother over the head with a Sesame Street bus. Our ER vis­its have never resulted from sib­ling fights, but we’ve had both, so I send you my com­pas­sion and prayers.