First stitches

Yesterday we had our first trip to the hospital for stitches. It's hard to believe that with 6 kids we haven't had stitches yet. So, Jadon was helping in the yard and wanted to try trimming the bushes with the electric trimmer. He hadn't been doing it very long and we heard him say "I just cut my fingers!" He started going in the house to wash them off and they were bleeding pretty bad. I DO NOT like seeing blood on my kids!!! Once we got the bleeding to stop, we were trying to decide if he needed stitches. We decided we needed to at least take him in for a tetinus shot since he cut them with dirty metal. We went to an instacare and waited for an hour and a half before we saw the doctor. The doctor said the fingers needed to be stitched. Jadon was pretty brave but once he heard he needed stitches he got pretty nervous. The worst part was the numbing shots. Once it was all over, he said it wasn't that bad. He was just glad that baseball is over because he can't play sports for a couple of weeks. Because they were so busy, they forgot to give Jadon the tetnus shot. They called us that night to tell us he needed to come back to get it. Jadon got nervous all over again. The anticipation of the unknown is way worse than the actual event. During the whole ordeal he said it was the worst day of his life.