Urgent Care...

We had our first visit to Urgent Care in a bit of a rush last night. Thankfully, it turned out to be unnecessary but I am still glad we went in.

During Gavin's bath he slipped when he was trying to have his face wiped after having splashed water in it and bumped his face. He was obviously upset but not seemingly more than he would normally be from getting hurt. I got him to stop burying his face in Scott's shoulder so I could take a quick look and try to figure out what he hit and see if he would have yet another bump and bruise (frequent occurrences around here). That's when I saw the blood and seemingly lots of it. I grabbed a damp wash cloth to try to get the bleeding under control to figure out where it was coming from. I knew that head and mouth cuts often bleed a lot even if they are tiny and no big deal. We have had a few bleeding cuts from Gavin's mouth and face and there was a lot of blood but we were able to quickly determine where the blood came from and that a doctor visit was not needed. 

Once we figured out where the blood was coming from (below his lip), we then had to try to figure out how deeply it was cut. That was the hard part. There was so much blood, it was hard to tell how deep it was and it seriously looked like he had bitten through his lip. I quickly looked up the number for our doctor's office to find out when their urgent care closed. They were closing in about 20 minutes, at 8pm. We decided to quickly grab a diaper and clothes for Gavin and get in the car and visit urgent care. We are about 10 minutes away so it was worth the drive in, just in case stitches were needed. If nothing else, it was worth it to avoid a potential trip to the ER. We arrived with about two minutes to spare. There was no one else there so we were taken right back to have Gavin looked at. He was so good about it. By this time the bleeding had basically stopped and he was probably wondering what in the world we were doing visiting a doctor.

Thankfully our visit was unnecessary because stitches were not needed. The doctor cleaned up the cut, put some antibacterial ointment on it and said to keep it as clean and covered as we could given the location. It was even in a location that would aid in the healing because it forced the cut closed so that worked in our favor for quicker healing.

After a bit of a stressful evening, we snuggled together on the couch and watched a little of Cars 2 before Gavin passed out for the night. Although our visit to urgent care wasn't really needed, I am still glad we went to be sure that it wasn't more serious and avoided a trip to the ER. The urgent care at our doctors office is far more convenient because they have all of our records already, so no paperwork. It also is much faster and 100% covered by insurance. Although I hope we don't need to go in again anytime soon, I am glad we have the option there for us!