Olivia Gets Stitches

We went to Vernal last weekend. David volunteered to go and help run a route for Frito Lay. The company paid for our gas to go and for the hotel. We thought it would be a fun way to go see his brother and his family. We stayed in the hotel Thursday night and Friday night. Saturday we checked out of the hotel and stayed with Mike and Janice. Sunday, the kids were out playing on the trampoline. The trampoline has been slowly falling apart and the mat was being held on by maybe 20 springs. The kids were just sitting on it and not really jumping. We could hear every once in awhile another spring pop off. Olivia and Kayci were on the trampoline and saw that another spring was pulling off. Kayci told Olivia to go and see if she could pull the spring off before it broke itself. Olivia went to pull the spring and it popped off and cut her on the head. She came inside the house screaming and her whole face was covered in blood. We had no idea where she had been cut until we cleaned it up. We were grateful to see the cut in her eyebrow and not her eye. We looked it over and decided that she needed stitiches. We drove to the ER in Vernal. Olivia was very scared about getting the stitches, she was hoping that they could just glue it. Her she is in the exam room waiting for the nurse to come in. She had almost filled the whole band aid up with blood. When they nurse came in, she took off the band aid and cleaned it up to look at it, then put another bandage on it until the doctor came in.
We took this picture of the cut before the nurse put the new bandage on. I should have gotten closer up, but was in a hurry to take it. When the doctor came in and looked at the cut, he said that she needed stitches. She tried to jump off of the table and run away. David had to sit on the table to keep her there. She was not thrilled about getting the needle to numb her head. After her head was numb, they cleaned the cut with water to flush it out, then had her get back on the table so they could stitch her up.
The doctor used the soap to clean the area before stitching. They put the paper pads on her head so just the cut was exposed. He kept telling her that they were just still cleaning the cut and she had no idea that they were stitching her up.

She ended up getting 3 stitches. She made it through it all and was very brave and scared at the same time. Her first day of school, she had alot of people asking her what happened to her eye. We have an appointment to have the stitches taken out and we will see how she deals with that.