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Friday morning. Removal of stitches. It didn't go so well. Thursday night I went on iTunes and downloaded Henry's favorite episode of SpongeBob so he could have something to focus on while the Dr. removed his stitches. After Henry was weighed and had his temperature taken and we were hanging out waiting for the real action to begin, I fired up my laptop and was told by iTunes I couldn't play the show I had purchased because I hadn't given permission to any computers to be able to play the show. That I had purchased. And downloaded. To my laptop. So that was a big fail. When the Doctor showed up, he showed Henry what medical tools of doom and torture he was going to be using (tweezers, scissors, gauze) and Henry promptly lost it. Oh the hysterical sobbing. Poor kid. The doctor was really great. We tried to find a way to get the stitches out that would comfort Henry the most, for example sitting on Dave's lap, but none of them worked. Plus, when he did calm down enough to where he wasn't crying, he was still doing the post-hysterics reflexive sharp intake of breath which meant the Doctor still couldn't get the scissors in a good position to snip the stitches. Finally he called in a nurse to hold his head still while I held his arms and hands and three seconds later it was over. Henry couldn't get out of there fast enough. He didn't want a rubber ducky for being brave, he didn't want a lollipop or a sticker or both. He wanted to get to the car as fast as possible. So he, Dave, and Holly headed to the car while I checked us out. The nurse at the front desk said that it sounded like it went well. I laughed and said "You heard that all the way out here, eh?" She said they hear it every day, all day. She was also extremely surprised to hear that Henry handled the stitches going in far better than he handled them coming out. My kid: bucking the trends, as usual.

In the car, Henry said "I don't like going to the doctors because they hurt me." Long pause. "I would like going to the doctors if they didn't hurt me." I heartily agreed.