A Thousand Band-aids!

A thousand band aids? Well, pretty close to it! Some of those band aids were to cover Mom's broken heart when my baby was hurt!  That baby was Jake! Perhaps the title to the post should have been "A Stitch in Time"!



Injury #1

(Injury #1) 16 months old, drinking a bottle, fell on the cement with a bottle in your mouth  Your chin was cut all the way through.  You would try to drink something and it would come out of your chin.  Off to the ER we go.  They put a white straight jacket on your tiny little body.  After screaming for what seemed like forever, you finally just gave in! 


Injury #2, after surgery

(Injury #2) 3 years old.  You fell on a picnic table bench, hit your nose just in the right place that it practically ripped your nose off.  There was so much blood it was hard to see how much damage had been done.  Hospital #1 sent us to hospital #2 where they had plastic surgeons.  My stomach turned every time I looked at your sweet face.  Surgery put it back together and now no one (except us) can tell! 

Injury #3, Leaving the hospital, all doped up!

(Injury #3) 6 years old.  You and your cousin, Emily, decided to go a little (okay a lot) too fast on Uncle Wade's four wheeler.  We still aren't clear what happened, because y'all didn't seem to remember.  We are SO lucky y'all weren't hurt any worse than you were.  It could have been a fatal accident, and I am so grateful it wasn't.  The docs didn't want you to walk on your leg and you refused to even try the crutches, so a wheel chair it was!

After injury #3, I QUIT COUNTING!  There were many more to come!   Bicycle accidents, a rope accident in a tree (yes, I still haven't figured out how a rope was in the tree and you just about hung yourself!), swimming pool accident that required stitches, oh, and the time you stuck a knife in an electrical outlet and shocked yourself!  (YES, there was an outlet cover, you pulled it out!) 

I am thankful that your brother only a broke an arm and had to have knee surgery after a football injury!  (Thank you Tyler!)

Isn't that a sad sight!

Nasty!

You think this looks bad, you should have seen it before it was fixed!

There just happened to be a rope in the tree and it somehow
got around my neck., (by the way, not at our house, at one of the neighbors).

Swimming Pool accident

Boy meets pavement

Now, see why I feel so lucky to still have you!  You kept the doctors and hospitals busy, that's for sure!  You had a rough time of it, but it never stopped you!  Besides all these injuries, you also had surgery to put tubes in your ears and to take them out, and countless ER visits from bee stings.

I am one happy mama that my baby survived his childhood!  Love you, Jake!