OUCH!!!

It seems that every child has their share of bumps and bruises, but our Julia has over-extended her quota! Due to her poor balance and low muscle tone (she loses balance or her arms give way suddenly as she crawls...she can crawl very fast now!) she has had stitches in her chin 5 times. Most recently Saturday a week ago.

We have all hard wood and tile in the bottom floor of our home. Julia lost balance and banged her chin...hard. After 5 hours in the emergency room we went home with 11 stitches...3 inside and 7 outside.

Believe it or not...this is not the worst part of the story! I took her to her pediatrician on Thursday to have them removed and he felt they needed another day or so to heal. "We'll remove them Saturday." he said. He felt that the scar tissue was still weak and it wouldn't take much to split it open again.

Would you believe that by 6:30 that evening we were on our way to the emergency room again?! Her weak shoulder-girdle gave way and she banged her chin on the floor while crawling. I sobbed like a baby this time...it was so awful...all this blood and her poor chin looked (literally) like chopped liver.

This time they didn't even attempt to re-stitch her chin. The inside had healed to the place that it wouldn't knit together properly (from the first injury), and the only place that would heal together were the edges...which are too weak from all the scar tissue. Sigh. So now Julia has this large football shaped scar on her chin.

Yes...I know that in the grand scheme of things this is relatively minor...but right now it's big to us.