"Mom...I think I might need stitches"...

Last Friday Brooklyn went to an EFY (Especially For Youth) reunion party down near Renton. She met some really nice kids this summer at her EFY session and has had fun keeping in touch with them throughout the summer. One of the girls in her company decided to have a reunion party.

Around 10:30 that evening Steve and I headed down to pick up Brooklyn from the party.  About 10 minutes after we left I got a call from Brooklyn.  She said..."Mom...I think I might need stitches". She then explained that they were sitting on the floor playing a game when someone from behind her started tickling her and so she moved fast to get away and smacked her nose on the corner of a TV cabinet. She said that she was bleeding pretty bad and that she had a big cut on her nose. The girl who was hosting the party went and got her dad and he cleaned Brooklyn up and put a butterfly bandage on her nose to stop the bleeding until we got there. Steve took one look at her and knew that she needed stitches. So off to the ER we went. We passed several hospitals on our drive home but felt the best about stopping in Bellevue at Overlake Hospital. We arrived around midnight. They got us in pretty quickly into a room where we waited for the ER doctor to come in and take a look at Brooklyn.

The ER doctor took a quick look at the cut and quickly decided that he didn't want to stitch Brooklyn up and called for a plastic surgeon to come in and do it. Check out that injury! Ouch!

Three hours later Brooklyn had 10 stitches on her nose. The doctor who came in to do them was excellent. We were so glad that we chose Overlake Hospital to have Brooklyn stitched up!