Dog Bite

Monday morning we left for Longview to see my sister Heather and her kids. Their house is always filled with animals. Zachary of course just loves it except  for this time... One of her food aggressive dogs bit Zachary in the face. The kids were not supposed to let the dogs in, but when we woke up that morning it was cold and raining so they felt bad for the dog. It would have been ok until they got food out. Zachary just happened to be on the tail end of the catastrophe.

It bled really bad really quickly and I was super afraid it was his eyeball. Luckily it wasn't



Off to the ER we went just to make sure everything was okay. He had a pretty good gash right under the eye. The dog also punctured his upper lip really good. So blood seemed to come from everywhere.



The doctors felt it was best to stitch it up since it was so close to the eye. He of course wouldn't be able to sit still with a needle coming towards his eye. So they had to do a conscious sedation. Lights were on, but nobody was home..



This is right after they got done. He has 5 stitches. The doctor also got to look at his mouth a bit better and decided it didn't need stitches should heal fine by itself. Took him about an hour to come out of it. Right as soon as he was starting to come out of it he ended up throwing up. There wasn't anything on his stomach as we had just got up that morning when it happened.



We decided to end our trip short and come home. It definitely wiped him out.



This is later on in the day looks pretty good.



He wanted me to get a really close shot so he could see how many stitches he had.



Eye is puffy and has blackened. Lip is still really puffy, but not too much pain luckily. He told me this morning that the medicine really scared him. He said when he woke up from dreaming I had 4 eyes. I see a few weeks of no sleep in our future.... No worries though he is being thoroughly coddled.