UC Visit of 2016

The past four years Austin has had one big visit to the Urgent Care. I guess it's better than multiple visits each year, right? Better then the ER too. The first one happened over the summer (the big one where he sliced his forehead on Gramms' and Abuelo's camper and got four stitches), but the other three have happened in January or February. He likes to start the year off with a bang, I think.

 Three years ago he got his finger caught in the stool and it was bleeding pretty badly for a while. I ended up taking him in the next day (it happened at night), but he didn't end up needing any stitches, just a super good band aid. Last year, his big toe was slammed in the door. I was worried about it being the big toe and future development. He got an x-ray, but nothing was broken, it was just very painful for him and nasty looking for a while.

Last Thursday, I dropped off Victoria and Austin at Miller and then dropped Karissa off at Gallimore. Leaving Gallimore, on the way to pick up balloons for the baby shower I was helping put on at the church, I received a call from Miller saying that Austin has slipped and fallen on his face and that I needed to come see him. School hadn't even started yet! He was racing his friend and slipped on the over-abundant amount of salt chunks, meant to keep the black tops from being slippery. Looking at his face and discussing it with the nurse there, we decided I should take him to the UC. He had a small gash above his lip that looked questionable. Since I was in charge of the main egg dish for the shower, that needed to be baked, and the decorations, I quickly stopped off at home to grab them (luckily I was prepared the day before and everything was ready to be grabbed) and dropped them off at my friend's who was also helping with the shower. She baked the egg dish and saved the shower! The end....

Meanwhile, I continued on to the UC.

Luckily, again, they decided Austin should been seen right away, so we didn't have to wait! They cleaned him up and gave him one stitch above his lip. I was to keep him home the rest of the day to keep an eye on him.

Above the lip doesn't look much worse than by the eye here, but around the eye was just a big scrape. We're lucky he didn't get much lower! His one front tooth was a little bloody, but there were no problems with the teeth.

On a positive note about doctor visits, a few days before this incident we went to the dentist. Erik has been two times before in the hopes (my hopes) of him sitting in the chair and having his teeth checked and cleaned. This time was the right time! I prepared him and told him exactly what they were going to do: count his teeth, introduce him to Mr. Sucker and Mr. Spray, clean and tickle his teeth with a special toothbrush, and use the spray and the sucker. He was pleasantly surprised when they mentioned that the 20 teeth he has is the same amount of fingers and toes he has. He had to promptly count them all to make sure. It was great up to that point, but I forgot to tell him about the floss. It all went downhill after that...

At least he got his teeth looked at and cleaned and he had no cavities! Next time, I will include the flossing.

He even got to wear sunglasses!