We took an unplanned trip to the hospital last night. It started off when we were all upstairs in the train room and Alex and I were playing horse. I was down on all fours and he was sitting on my back when he decided to let go and that’s when he lost his balance and slid off. He landed on his bum but his head came down pretty hard and hit the edge of the his Thomas the Tank Engine Fire House. There was some crying and when I checked out his head I saw a little blood and after managing to get his hair out of the way I saw that he had a little gash.<\/p>\n
So we packed up the car and off to the hospital to have it checked out. To our surprise it really wasn’t crowded. I was expecting to have to sit and wait for a couple of hours before we could get in but when we got there we were the next people in line.<\/p>\n
First the nurse at the triage station had to look at his head, then when we got back to the emergency room the nurse there had to look at it and let me tell you, Alex wanted absolutely nothing to do with any of that. He fought anyone who even remotely came close to looking at his head and there was nothing we could do to convince him that it was all going to be alright. Then the doctor had to come in and take a look too. We had to hold him down pretty tight for her to get close enough to get a look at it. It didn’t look too bad but she said it was going to need 2 staples to close it up.<\/p>\n
Alex wouldn’t even sit still for them long enough to get a look at it and we were thinking, how are they going to keep him still enough to put in staples? Turns out they have their ways. They wrapped him up tight in a sheet with his arms at his sides so the only thing showing was his head. They called it “burrito style.” Then Jen sat at his head and I held his body down while they did the work. Once wrapped up I thought he did a really good job sitting still because he could have still put up a big fuss if he wanted to. It took them about five minutes to clean the cut out and give him the two staples and then we were on our way.<\/p>\n
Since the cut is right at the back of his head it’s right where his head would sit on the pillow so we have been trying to teach him how to sleep on his side. So far we’ve had limited success but he really is in good spirits today and the first thing he did when he got up this morning was come and wake me up and tell me it was “Time to Play!”
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We took an unplanned trip to the hospital last night. It started off when we were all upstairs in the train room and Alex and I were playing horse. I was down on all fours and he was sitting on … Continue reading