So, yesterday morning I had an appointment with my doctor. Everything is great with the pregnancy and baby. I am just over 32 weeks now and starting to countdown.
My doctor asked if there was anything that they could do to help out with Kayla's situation. I kind of jokingly said that it would be great if I could have the baby on a Friday so I could have the most time to recover before going to Kayla's treatment, since they are on Thursdays. He was totally fine with that and said that if things are happening, I could definitely be induced on a Friday if that would help. We'll see. I am hoping I'll naturally go a little early since Benson was 9 days early.
After lunch I was planning on taking the kids swimming. Then Nathan came walking into the kitchen with blood on his hands saying, "Mommy, I'm bleeding." He was pretty calm about it at first. He told me that a weight fell on his head. I grabbed some wet paper towels and found where the blood was coming from. Right on the crown of his head. It was bleeding pretty bad for a couple of minutes and then stopped pretty quickly. I got the story from him. . . the kids had made a fort using my weights to hold the blankets in place. Well, of course, one of the blankets got pulled and a 15 lb weight rolled off of the desk and hit Nathan's head and then landed right on his hand on the ground. So, along with his head, his last three fingers on his left hand hurt pretty badly.
Great. I was wondering if I should take him into the urgent care or something. I put ice on his head and hand and thought that yeah, we should probably go in. So, then things got a little chaotic because it was right at lunch time, so I knew I had to feed the kids and find someone to come over, or somewhere to take them. I still don't feel comfortable leaving Kayla at someone's house, so I tried all of my babysitters. I already knew that one was sick. Two were out of town and one was already watching her siblings. Bummer. So, then I was thinking of where I could take them. I called a couple people that I thought I'd be okay leaving Kayla with, but no answer. Other friends I knew were gone, on bedrest, or had sick kids, and I was feeling a little desperate.
I finally called one friend and decided that I would just leave Lily and Benson. She was home and able and a total lifesaver! I took Nathan and Kayla to the urgent care and they got him right in. There was a huge line in front of us, but I guess a head injury takes precedence. :) Nathan didn't appear to have a concussion, but they needed to check out his fingers, too. So, the nurse took us back to the procedure room and cleaned up his wound. The doctor came in and looked at it and decided that a little glue would do the trick. The laceration wasn't big enough to need a staple (hooray for that!). So, she glued his cut together and then we waited for the x-ray guy to come back from lunch.
When he got back, he took us back and took x-rays of Nathan's hand. I thought it was funny that he recognized me from a few months ago when Benson was in getting chest x-rays when he had bronchiolitis.
After the x-rays we went back to our room and waited for the results. The doctor came in and told us that Nathan's fingers were not broken, just very bruised. Also, no football practice for 2 days, at least, no haircut (which I was planning on doing that very morning but didn't get to it, ugh), no shower for 2 days, and to be looking for signs of concussion in the first 24 hours.
Nathan was quite the trooper. He was a little worried that cleaning his cut hurt, but he did fabulous and he said that it didn't really hurt. I took this picture and when I told him that I would post it on facebook, he actually gave me a little smile. :) He doesn't normally like to be in or smile for pictures.
So, that was that. He was totally fine when we got home. He was happy that he couldn't really use his fingers and that meant that he couldn't practice the piano.
He slept fine last night and he was fine today-not even a headache. His fingers are still a little sore, but they should heal quickly.
So after that long day and all the kids are in bed. . . Lily came in to my room and handed me her spacer. She had a tooth pulled a couple of years ago and they put a spacer in. She told me that it fell out. It looked kind of mangled, too. Great. So, now we get to go to the dentist. Never a dull moment around here!
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