Mavic's 1st Stitches....

and hopefully his last!  Mavic was twirling around and got dizzy, then smacked his head against our banister; he split open the skin across his eyebrow.  I have never seen so much blood come out of someone so quickly.  Of course Spencer was not here when this happened, so my parents rushed out and helped me take him to the doctors.  It was an awful experience for Mavic and me.  First of all he was terrified of the cartoon that was on in the InstaCare and then we had to wait for 45 minutes.  By the time we got back to the office, I knew it was not going to go down easily.  I told the nurse that Mavic was autistic so they got out a papoose to hold him down, but that wasn't enough so my dad had to hold his body down while the nurse and I held his head down.  Oh, and they put this paper covering over his face that opened up over the wound - what an awful idea.  It was like he was suffocating with that on and then to just see that one eye looking at me like I was torturing him - it KILLED me.  I was crying almost as hard as Mavic was.  It took about 45 minutes to get 7 stitches in him and my mom said you could hear Mavic screaming from the waiting room. :(  He kept saying, "No, Way" all through the procedure.  By the time it was all done Mavic was red and sweating.  Even though he had just been tortured, he got up and said thank you to the nurse.  I love my sweet Mav!  Spencer tells me it is a normal thing for boys to get stitches, but I hope my boys never have to go through that again.  Afterwards, my sweet parents got Mav some french fries and a courtesy ice cream cone - nothing like food to cheer you up! 

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