stitches and leaving in 5 days!

[tinkerjo]

my youngest DS 7 was playing at a friends housse last night and got hit in the head with a baseball bat. (he played 2 innings of catcher his last coach pitch game and now wants to practice it all the time) the other little boy just got too close and whammy! 5 stitches right above the left eye and a heck of a shiner. I can take the stitches out while we are at disney(iam a nurse thank god)but no swimming till the stitches are out!!!thats like the first 3 days we are there you dont know how hard that will be.just wanted to vent, things like this always happen to us!!!!!!I need a pulling hair smiley.

 

[jj1403]

Sorry to hear about that! Is there any product you could use to seal up the wound?? Like that liquid Band Aid stuff that you put on wounds to close them??

 

[melomouse]

I'm sorry about the stitches. DD took a whack near the eye just before we were going to Sesame Place a few years ago. Yikes! Just what ya need...

We wore tons of sunscreen and Mederma all summer - hardly know it's there today!

Enjoy your trip!

 

[disneychrista]

Not too long ago I had to have 7 stitches in the back of my head. I was allowed to wash like normal but just had to make sure that it was fully dried after. Couldn't you just put Neosporian and a "waterproof" bandaid on the wound and let him swim? Obviously you don't want him to get an infection or have the cut not heal properly but I don't see why the above couldn't work.

 

[Alex2kMommy]

Just a caution about the Dermabond, or whatever that 'superglue' stuff is called. My son also got hit in the head with a (plastic) bat last summer, and though it should have had stitches, the doctor sealed it with Dermabond instead. Two days later we wound up in the hospital with a raging infection, his whole eye socket grossly swollen and a high fever. Four days later, with the Dermabond picked out, the wound cleaned and packed, the fever was gone and the eye was thankfully unaffected.

I won't be in a hurry to use that product anytime soon. Not saying it caused the infection (it didn't, it was because the wound had not been properly cleaned beforehand), but what a nightmare to have to hold my son down and hear him scream as the wound was picked open, irrigated and packed!

 

[Mommy2JulietJocelyn]

if i am doing math correctly - they are laeving his stitches in for 8 days before they come out? with facial lacs the stitches are usually in for only 5 days to minimize scarring. Is there a reason they want them in for 8? (I am an ER nurse which is why I'm curious)
Carol

 

[mrsltg]

While I'm not a nurse I did have stitches in my face two years ago (and I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night ) across the bridge of my nose. The one thing the doc warned me about over and over and over was keeping the scar out of the sun. Make sure your ds wears a hat with a good visor and then lots of sunscreen once he's able. I'm happy to report that after taking meticulous care of my scar it's nearly invisible now.

Good luck to your ds!