No more monkies jumping on the bed!

So yesterday about 4:30 I was playing on the bed with benson when he decided he wanted to get off. I grabbed his foot as his head went over the edge but he nailed his head on the petrified wood night stand by our bed. He started crying and blood started gushing out of his forehead. I rushed him to the bathroom and put pressure on the wound with a towel. He was screaming and trying to push it off the whole time. It kept bleeding and bleeding and it was really hard to tell how deep it was. I grabbed my phone with one hand and debated who to call first, Spencer at work, or my neighbor Rose the nurse. I called Rose and luckily she was home and available to rush over. She helped me calm down and helped keep Benson still. Finally it stopped bleeding. Rose said it would need stitches...I panicked and asked what about just a butterfly bandage? She helped me load him in the car, by this time Benson had stopped crying and was fine, just snacking on goldfish crackers. We got to Urgent care, which is litterally just a few blocks away. He came in looking like this, with dried blood everywhere and a gash in his forehead. The nurse put some numbing gel on it, and we sat for another 10 minutes... I thought he looked like a little cancer patient with this tape around his head.

Dad came straight from work and met us there. I held Bensons hands and body while Spence kept his head still so the nurse could inject a few shots of numbing gel. He was screaming the whole time!! It was so hard to watch. Then we sat for another 1o minutes, Benson is totally fine walkin around eating goldfish, and then its time to suture it up!!! We swaddled his arms down in a blanket, and pinned him down, and it took 3 of us to keep him still enough for the doctor to stitch it. He had 3-4 stitches and screamed bloody murder the entire time! He was sweating soo much when we took him out of the blanket and finally released him. Then he was perfectly fine again!

He got a yummy sucker at the end!

Here you can see how sweaty he got, and all of the crusted blood on his face! Poor kid! It was so scary. Thank you so much Rose for being there for me!!

I have to re-think Halloween costumes now, Benson was going to be a COW for Halloween, but maybe he should be Frankenstien...he already has the stitches on his forehead!