Jonathan gets stapled

So a little over a month ago there was an incident at our house. We were going through our usual bedtime ritual which, of course, involves Jaaromy chasing Jonathan and Brigham down the hallway to me in Brigham's room several times. Things were going fine until on one of the trips down the hall I hear a horrible smack and Jonathan yell "OW! OW!". So when he reached me in Brigham's room I gave him a hug to help him feel better and I felt something wet on my had but didn't really look closely. Jaaromy came in to make sure he was okay and took a look at his head and said "Oh my Gosh, OH MY GOSH!" He had smacked his head on a wall corner and now blood was dripping all down the side of his head. We cleaned him up and by then the bleeding had stopped but we could tell that it was too deep to just leave alone so we decided to take him to the emergency room.

Unfortunately, Nathaniel was still at Kyuki Do and in our usual routine we put Jonathan and Brigham to bed first and then Jaaromy picks up Nathaniel. So we had to adjust a little. Jaaromy took Jonathan to the emergency room and I took Brigham with me to pick up Nathaniel. Brigham seemed fine with it but when we got home he went right up to bed to pick up where we left off in our routine.

Nathaniel was upset when I told him about Jonathan. He totally imagined the worst and his imagination was allowed to continue to get worse because Jaaromy and Jonathan were gone for a long time. I think they were gone for at least an hour and a half.

Jaaromy called me when they were finishing up and told me that they were going to put in two staples to hold it together. Weird. I told Nathaniel and he thought that sounded terrible and was really nervous to see them when Jonathan got home.


This is what he looked like when he got home. He was in really good spirits and he loved his bandage. In fact he wanted to wear it to bed and he even wore it to the Primary activity the next day. He wore it the day after that too, until bath time. I managed to convince him to leave it off until after church the next day. By then the novelty had worn off and he didn't really wear it again. Whew!

It was weird seeing the staples coming out of his head. Nathaniel had built it up in his mind to something so terrible that he couldn't even look at Jonathan and we had to force him to look at the staples to show him that it wasn't as bad as he had feared. He was happy to discover that it wasn't as bad as he thought and he was able to look at Jonathan again.

I'm a little sorry I didn't take a picture but at the time it seemed a little too gross. He wore the staples for a week and then Jaaromy took him back to the ER to have them removed. It's healing up pretty well although I'm sure he'll always have a scar.

He took it so well. He's a brave boy, my Jonathan.