Abby's Stitches

Our family has wanted to go on a vacation to Washington, D.C. for several years now. We wanted to wait until the youngest could enjoy it, even a little bit. We finally took the leap and made plans and hotel reservations. A couple of days before we went, Abby fell out of the sliding door onto our brick paver patio and cut her forehead open. What a trooper she was! She cried when it first happened and then was as calm as could be. During the time that we needed to wait for the numbing medicine to take affect, we couldn't keep her still. Good thing for Disney Princess videos!! After her forehead was all numb, they placed a sterile dressing over her head and stitched her up. She didn't move once. She was the perfect patient!

I look like I am ready for the Army!

Must you wrap me, I promise to lay still!

Just like new!

They told us to come back on Thursday to get the stitches out since we were leaving on Friday morning. We went back in and they told us they were not ready and that we would have to find and ER in D.C. to have them taken out. YIPPEE! Not.

The day we went in to get the stitches removed and were turned away. because they weren't ready!

Matt and I figured that we would just take them out ourselves since Grandma Jenson has given us surgical supplies through the years. I packed the necessary supplies and we would do it when we saw the wound heal better. On the second day in D.C., after touring the area all day long, Abby was easy to get to bed that night and once she was asleep, Matt became the expert stitch remover. She didn't even flinch in her sleep!