He had his first major injury already at just shy of 17 months old. He was walking wobbley around our favorite goat statue at Rittenhouse Square. It's hard to imagine this statue if you haven't seen it, but it's a bronze goat that is elevated up on a small cement slab and then up again on a marble slab that's probably about a foot tall. So anyway, Brooks tripped on the small cement slab, and hit is forehead right on the corner of the taller marble slab. Not to be too descriptive, but anyone who has had or seen a head injury knows that they are typically quite bloody. This was no exception. There was blood gushing out, and the poor little guy was just smearing it everywhere! It was traumatic for those of us witnessing it. Jon wasn't there, but luckily there was another dad there with his kid who seemed to have some sort of medical background. He was handing me towels, water, and checking out the wound. He was unsure if it needed stitches, so after we slowed the bleeding down, I took off to find Jon. Jon seemed to be in the same boat in thinking that it could maybe use a stitch, but he thought it would be too difficult to keep Brooks calm for the procedure. Since he is so young, and their skin heals so well at that age, we agreed that steri strips were the way to go. Jon picked up some steri strips from work and closed the wound beautifully!
All was good and well until Monday afternoon. Brooks was just casually walking around the apartment when he slipped and fell in the kitchen. The kitchen flooring is a nice, hard tile, and poor Brooks hit his head right on his injury. Even with the steri strips on, it immediately started gushing blood again. I panicked! Jon was at work, and I decided that he needed to go to the ER this time to have it checked out. Like all ERs, we were there for several hours, and it was determined that the bottom layer of skin did not re-open afterall. Thankfully, stitches (and sedation) were no longer necessary (like they might have been on Friday) because the healing process had already started! :) So it was back to steri strips!
I've determined that I am going to have to put that boy in a bubble to keep him safe! But since I can't do that, I guess I will pray that he doesn't hit his head again until this one heals. With this boy, I'm pretty sure there are going to be a lot more injuries and trips to the ER in the future...Let's just hope he gives us all a little break before the next one!
The orginal injury.
It's short, but deep!
After daddy patched him up!
Feeling like himself again!
Getting numb in the ER.
This was so they could clean it out without hurting him, and potentially stitch it if needed!
Overall, he's doing well, and it doesn't seem to be bothering him!
Love this poor, little man!
