Urgent Care...x2

On the Friday after Thanksgiving, while we were still in Texas, we were hanging out at the lake and Andy decided to go for a ride in the old boat. He took off his shoes because there was quite a bit of water in the bottom of the boat, and when he got in he stepped right on a rusty screw.

It's been a long time since he had a tetanus shot, so Andy and I drove to an Urgent Care about 20 minutes away. I actually called two medical centers that were close by as we were driving. One lady I talked to was really grouchy, and the lady at the other place was lovely, so we chose the friendly place. I'm sure glad we did! The staff at the Urgent Care was wonderful!

That trip ended up being a trial run for the next day. Saturday was our last day of vacation. Our flight left at 6:50 pm that night. That morning I told the kids to get in as many ATV rides as possible because that was going to be their last chance.

About an hour before we were going to head to the airport, Joey and Hannah came back from an ATV ride with Hannah crying and her arm all cut and bloody. They were exploring a new trail, and Hannah made a wrong turn. She thought it was the trail, but she ended up running into a barbed wire fence. The barbed wire clotheslined her in the arm. Her ATV plowed through the bottom part of the fence, and she got thrown backwards off the ATV. Thankfully she was wearing a helmet and goggles. The bummer was that she had just taken her sweatshirt off because it was pretty warm, and all she had on was a tank top.

As soon as I saw her arm, I knew she was going to need stitches. We got in the car and left right away because we needed to go to the Urgent Care, but we also had a plane to catch! Praise the Lord, the timing all worked out perfectly. We went back to the wonderful Urgent Care, and she got seen right away. They cleaned out her wounds, stitched her arm, glued a cut on her neck, and bandaged her all up. We just had to stop at a Walmart to pick up her prescription for some antibiotics, and then we were on the way to the airport. We got there with plenty of time to return our rental car, check in, and have a nice dinner after our crazy afternoon.

Hannah bounced back relatively quickly. It was nice to see her smiling again. I think it was the promise of milkshakes at Ruby's Diner!

This was a picture of her arm the Monday after her accident. My sister said the picture looks like she lost her arm and they sewed it back on. Ha! Thankfully, it looked worse than it was, but it was very sore that first week.

I took this picture exactly a week later right after she got her stitches out. (Thankfully getting her stitches out went a lot better than last time.) The doctor wanted to put two little steri-strips on the deeper part of her cut so that it wouldn't open up again. What a difference a week makes! Her arm looks so much better. We're so thankful that her injury was as minor as it was. It could have been much worse, and we are so thankful for the Lord's protection!