Seth Update

Seth is doing so well. First of all, very fat lip, stitches, broken tooth and all, he helped lead the singing in children's church last Sunday less than 24 hours after his fall as if nothing had happened. He went to school Monday morning and stayed after Monday afternoon for his violin lesson. Basically this injury has not slowed him down! Yesterday we took the bandange off of his chin and were able to see the stitches. It looks to me (expert that I am!) like it is healing really well. By this morning his lip was looking much less swollen. Tonight at bedtime he told me he is really looking forward to his doctor and dentist appointments on Thursday because he's anxious to know about his jaw, which is still painful if he opens his mouth very wide. We're hoping they will be able to do more thorough x-rays to look at this and the tooth as well.

The tooth that broke off happens to be in the same space as the baby tooth Seth chipped as a toddler that slowly died and got darker and darker over the years until two years ago the dentist found a small infection behind it and had to pull it. It took a while for the permanent tooth to grow into that space, and so for a long time he had a bit of a jack-o-lantern look, with one big tooth and a space and then a stub growing into it. Now he says with the broken permanent tooth he's back to that look!

Uncle Justin, don't you be egging him on about landing that trick he tried when he got hurt!