Matthew's Fat Lip - September 2008

Ok - I learned an important lesson this week... never leave the house. My friend and I went out this week to have some fun at a Boden party. We left the house and headed to the party. About one hour later, I received a phone call from Jim stating that he is taking Matthew to the ER and our other neighbor is at our house watching our other children. What? Are you kidding? I thought he was playing a practical joke on me....

Well he wasn't. Matthew gashed his mouth open while running down the hall. We aren't actually sure what happened as John was the only witness to the event.

After 3 hours at the ER, it was determined that Matthew would need to be seen by an oral surgeon the next day. He had "gloved" himself. This means, removing the skin from the top of your teeth up to your jawline. He had exposed bone showing and therefore we had to start him on antibiotics.

After a visit to the oral surgeon the next day, it was determined that we would take a wait and see approach on his mouth. He had actually fractured his top left front tooth and the one next to it was extremely loose.

Here are some pictures of Matthew...I must mention that Jim and I have been betting all along that Matthew would be the first child of ours seen at the ER....We just thought it would be a broken limb. We asked if we could purchase some sort of Frequent Visitor Discount card.