a REAL crash

Hunter had a MAJOR crash on his bike. He was down the street so I didn't see it. His friend rode back to us and said, "Hurry! Hunter's hurt and bleeding!" My kids are always falling and getting little scrapes... we tend to put band-aids on spots where they think it might bleed! So, I wasn't in a hurry. I figured it was a scrape. I rode calmly down to the corner (on my bike) and when I got there, I quickly realized that it was pretty bad! He had a PUDDLE of blood in front of him as he held his face. As I tried to figure out where the blood was coming from, I saw a dangling tooth... time to get the kid home and cleaned up! A neighbor quickly threw our bikes in the back of her pick-up and drove us back to our house (someone I hadn't met before!).

We quickly discovered a huge gash in his lip. And his tooth was cracking vertically. He got stitches that night in the ER - and he was very good despite seeing other people SCREAMING in the ER as the doctors worked on their head-wounds! We waited a couple of weeks to see if the tooth would bother him (half of it fell out the following morning). The tooth was hurting when biting into food, so I took him to the dentist yesterday. His nerve was exposed and becoming more inflamed daily - so the tooth got a little help out from Mr. Dentist and it was a cool tooth to see! I'm kinda sad that the tooth fairy took it away... it was very unique! *wink

It's tough to see, but he got stitches there on the right. Just a couple.

Here is a shot of the the tooth that the dentist pulled. It looks HUGE!

Here is the "resting place" that Hunter made for the Tooth Fairy. You know, she does get really tired and needs a soft spot to stop and rest during her busy night! (Our babysitter taught Hunter this one!)