Around 10 p.m., as Labor Day was winding down and my anxiety was winding up in anticipation of my fast-approaching date with the Graduate Record Exam, Lily’s face collided with a coffee table edge. Ten minutes later, we were at the Tacoma General ER, wondering how on earth doctors give babies stitches, hoping in the relatively short history of modern emergency medicine someone had developed a truly gentle way to coax suture thread through a baby’s eyebrow. Ha.
Thankfully, the attending physician declared the wound “not gaping” and decided a few applications of Dermabond, a glue for superficial cuts, would do the trick. However, despite the downgraded seriousness of the injury, Lily was still held down by three adults as the doc applied the superglue. She struggled, she shrieked, she cried, and she screamed.
But now the injury is forgotten and thankfully Lily bears no ill will toward the coffee table.
