Owen Collided with a Grocery Cart

Owen and a grocery cart collided tonight. It immediately split his lip open.

I was kindly helped to the car while Owen thrashed in pain, blood was everywhere, Adam was screaming and a full cart of groceries sat inside.

We raced to the ER where the bleeding was stopped and we spent the next 4 1/2 hours of our lives.

Owen calmed down pretty quickly once we were at the hospital. Joey recounts: "Wow. This whole thing was a lot harder than we anticipated. He wasfine until they gave him a drug that went up his nose in a spray. Heimmediately started freaking out and the drug had a reverse effect. He started thrashing around and was very mad at the nurses, not relaxed at all. They tried to hold him down to give him a shot in the gash in his lip, but he was trashing so badly the needle ended up poking him a bunch of times in the lip and making him even more upset.

Then, they decided the nasal drug wasn't working, so he had to get an IV. They tried once, and didn't get it right, so they brought in a bunch of tools to try to get the right placement on his veins. They got the IV on the next attempt. Owen told the nurses "I don't like you guys" about 10 times throughout.

They gave him a drug through the IV that knocked him mostly out. Then
they cleaned and stitched him up. He's now starting to come around
from the drugs, and is saying funny things. He was holding a
popsicle, just one, but looked at it and yelled "Hey! Two popsicles!"

Being in pain sucks. Watching your child in pain is way worse."

Once Owen was cleaned up and could stand on his own, we were released, but the fun didn't stop at the hospital. He came home and puked all over our family room floor, then all over our kitchen floor and then politely asked to be taken to the toilet. He has said thank you a million times; a nice change from the words coming out of his mouth at the hospital.