Catching Up - Wounds, Teeth and Sitting Up

A busy few weeks combined with a temporary memory lapse about my blogger password has made me extremely behind on my chronicling.

So, in short order... Kenshin cut his first tooth a few weeks ago on October 20th, a "primary right maxillary central incisor", if I have my dental terminology right. Baby teeth, like baby fingernails, are surprisingly sharp.

Kenshin has started sitting up on his own around the same time and has already progressed to trying to pulling himself up on furniture and convenient objects.

Two weeks ago, on October 30th, Daigoro took advantage of a lapse in my monitoring during a drop-in centre visit to climb up on a chair back and fall. He bashed his head on the edge of a wooden stage, resulting in a fairly bloody forehead gash. We bundled him quickly into the kitchen to staunch the bleeding, by applying direct pressure and calming him down. He cried initially but calmed down quickly, keeping a brave face through much of the experience. The centre caregivers insisted on calling an ambulance but we got to the hospital (St. Joseph's) fairly quickly on their own after declining the ambulance ride (they did bandage up his head fairly well).

A forty minute wait and three stitches later, Daigoro was taken care of. All things considered, Daigoro received pretty good care, though I was a little surprised to have a very young-looking intern doctor take care of the procedure. He was frightened but with some firm enveloping in a bedsheet and a nurse, a parent and a doctor to hold him while the sutures were put in, he made it through. Aside from my wife's two home births, this was one of the hardest (momentary) experiences to deal with in my life - it's one thing to deal with your own pain, it's quite another to watch a loved one in pain and being unable to ease it.