Did anyone in the south hear the screams of my Rubber this morning as she got her sutures removed?  If so, do you still have your eardrums?

No mother should have to hear what I heard, while holding her down (along with 2 nurses and the doctor), all the while she is moving her big toe and kicking her leg, making it next to impossible to remove the sutures:

1.  First the intense, penetrating, blood curdling screams! 

2.  Mommy make them stop!

3.  Ow, Ow, please stop!

4.  I want my daddy!

5.  Where is my daddy! (Sorry kiddo - he's TDY this week)

6.  When I inform her that this pain is mild compared to child birth, she bolts upright and screams, "I never want to have any children - I'm not going to have kids (and she's only 5 and originally wanted 8 children)!"

7.  Please, mommy, don't let them do this anymore.

On the way home (it only took 15 minutes to pull the sutures out)she asked me how come I was crying.  I explained that no mommy wants to see their child in pain or hurting!  It hurt mommy that she was carrying on so, and I didn't know if it really hurt, or whether she was being overly dramatic (we tend to have that happen quite frequently in our house).  I asked her how much it hurt and she said, "It hurt as much as I love you." 

Out of the mouths of babes," we now say (slightly misquoting), come the darndest things. Children sometimes speak, in their simplicity, more wisely than their elders.  It tugged at my heart strings, just how sweet her words of unconditional love were for me. Imagine how God feels everytime we are in pain or hurting!  We need to remember to tell Him how much we still love him unconditionally!

O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
-- Psalm 8: 1-2 (KJV)

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Posted by wannabeone

And the pain of their pain doesn't get any better when they're older, either! Last year, my (then) 19 yodd fell down a gravel hill at a Christian music festival and had to have all the nasties dug out and LOOSELY sutured so that the rest could work its way out! EEEERRRRR!!!!! When she came home it was "lovely" to have to play nurse until the sutures came out.

This past fall our 17 yodd broke her lower thumb (just above the wrist) playing on her homeschool volleyball team (she got to go to Nationals but didn't get to play). Listening to her try VERY HARD NOT to cry out while they were positioning her hand in order to x-ray it, was heart-breaking...she was trying SO HARD to be brave.

By the way...I think your "Little Woman" has stopped by my blog? :-)

Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<><

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