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So, we had a little wake up call at our home yesterday evening. My 3 year old stabbed himself in the butt with a very sharp and very rusty Schrade Old Timer that belonged to my grandpa.
My wife keeps the knife in her car to use when necessary.
I was outside with Jasper working on my jeep and I noticed him climbing into my wifes car. I didn't think too much of it, he does it all the time.
Then, the next thing I see is him crying and running toward me with blood streaming down his leg and his whole foot is bloody. Me and my wife were both freaking out trying to figure out what happened.
I go to her car and see the open knife in the front seat of her car. I asked him if he was playing with the knife and he says, 'no', because he knows he isn't supposed to handle knives.
He was more scared of getting in trouble than of the gaping wound on his butt check. I could easily stick my finger inside the hole that the knife made.
We spent about 2 hours at the emergency room just for the nurse to put anit-bacterial cream on the wound and place a Band-Aid on his butt. They said they couldn't sew up a puncture wound. It has to be a 'clean cut' with obvious edges to be sewn together.
Below is a pic of how far the knife went into his butt. That's a solid 1 1/2'' puncture wound there.
I feel horrible. Lessons were learned by everyone yesterday.
My wife keeps the knife in her car to use when necessary.
I was outside with Jasper working on my jeep and I noticed him climbing into my wifes car. I didn't think too much of it, he does it all the time.
Then, the next thing I see is him crying and running toward me with blood streaming down his leg and his whole foot is bloody. Me and my wife were both freaking out trying to figure out what happened.
I go to her car and see the open knife in the front seat of her car. I asked him if he was playing with the knife and he says, 'no', because he knows he isn't supposed to handle knives.
He was more scared of getting in trouble than of the gaping wound on his butt check. I could easily stick my finger inside the hole that the knife made.
We spent about 2 hours at the emergency room just for the nurse to put anit-bacterial cream on the wound and place a Band-Aid on his butt. They said they couldn't sew up a puncture wound. It has to be a 'clean cut' with obvious edges to be sewn together.
Below is a pic of how far the knife went into his butt. That's a solid 1 1/2'' puncture wound there.
I feel horrible. Lessons were learned by everyone yesterday.
I was home alone, and I had to ride out the pain on my own...lesson learned
