7 stitches

Yesterday evening, during Julian's soccer practice, Kathryn was swinging when the boy beside her jumped off his swing. The practices are all at our city park, and I could see the swings from where we were sitting. Well, when the boy jumped, the swing came back and hit Kathryn in the head, cutting her pretty deeply. She ran over to where we were sitting with blood all over her - I actually thought it was mud at first, because it had just stopped raining and I had been looking at Julian when it happened. When I saw the cut, I knew we had to let a doctor look at it. We took her to the ER, and they gave her 7 stitches since the cut was irregularly shaped and deep. It was a pretty harrowing experience, but Kathryn made it through just fine. She will have to have the stitches removed in 10 days, but we will go to her family doctor to do that. They will be much more gentle and patient with her than the doctor in the ER was, I hope. The good thing is the cut is in her hair, so when it heals, it won't be noticeable (unless she wants to show someone!). She now thinks it's pretty cool that she'll be able to tell her classmates about it when she starts school in a couple of weeks, although the stitches will be taken out a few days before she starts.

Of all the things I worry about happening to one of my children, this was not on my radar. I thought swings were fairly safe. Who knew?!