Sooo...tonight, Adam was sitting on Dave's lap in the playroom and it was time to start getting ready for bed. Dave put him down and Adam lost his balance and whacked his head on his train table. I didn't think it was going to be anything because the edges are all pretty rounded but when I picked him up, he was bleeding. YIKES! Adam was screaming and not wanting us to put anything on his head but we managed to stop the bleeding, assess the gash, and call his pediatrician who said the Close to Home was open until 8pm. Yay, since we live 5 minutes away! Boo because Adam was running around like nothing happened and so we had to chase him down and run to the car. We got checked in at 7:40 and they came out immediately to try to stick some numbing gel on it that would have to sit for 25 minutes. Well, Adam wouldn't have any of that and screamed and thrashed the whole time so the bandage holding the gel fell off. Plan B - lidocaine (which equals needles but that's was fine with me ). Adam was fine in the waiting room for the 5 minutes it took to set up a room for him. Once the nurses got near him, he would freak out again. Fortunately, they have this cool thing called a Papoose board (seen below).
I know it looks horrible but there is NO holding on to this kid when he gets upset. It's like a giant velcro burrito and then one of the nurses held his head since it needed to be held to the side. He sounded possessed during the whole procedure! I could make out "hugs" and "out" but the rest was very "red-rum"-ish. The nurses said they were going to run if he started to spit-out pea soup. 3 stitches and a little hyperventilating later and he was fine. Once we got him ready for bed and stories read, he was asleep within 5 minutes!
