Another visit to the ER

It started out as any other day would but when I got Cole dressed this morning and I pulled those white shorts up the first thing that came to my mind was "crap, what is he going to get on those today, and remind me again why I paid money for shorts that will stain so easily?" I bough them because they were super cute! Not practical! I was not expecting them to get covered in blood and chocolate ice cream.  Anyways, here is Cole before the incident....

And then after hearing him screaming bloody murder, he comes running to me and I can see a slight dent on his head but no blood so I thought it may have been grease or dirt.  Nope!  Definitely not grease!  As soon as I blot it off the blood starts running out.

We are pretty sure this is what he hit because I saw him get up right behind his "tricycle motorcycle".

Thank goodness it was only his forehead and not his eye or mouth. But it was obvious he needed stitches and since it was 7:30pm on a holiday (otherwise after hours would have been open and it would have only cost us $45 instead of the $250 bill we will be getting in the mail.

While I was getting Cole checked in, he was talking to the lady at the counter.  I think she was having a hard time concentrating on getting him checked in because he was on fire!  First he started telling her how he had a half circle on his forehead but that it was covered by a butterfly.  He then told her he did "this"(pretended to hit his head on the counter).  She then asked him if he liked worms.  He said "yes, worms do exercises in my hands.  I like ladybugs to crawl on my hands and my mommy takes pictures of them on my hands".  She laughed and then told me I'd better watch what I say or the entire world is going to know about it.

So then we move over to the waiting area.  There is the two of us and one other guy.  How we got so lucky I don't know.  But anyways we watched Scrubs on tv and waited to be called back to the nurse.  After awhile she peeked her head out and called out "Cole" so I stood up and started gathering our stuff. The nurse looks the other way and Cole yells out "Hey!  I'm right here!"  She laughed and said "I was just looking at my friends sitting down over there".  In to the room we go.  She first has him get on the scale.  34 pounds!!!!  He suddenly gained 2 pounds out of no where because he has been 32 pounds since he was 2!  Now he needed to sit still so the oxygen reader on his finger could get his heart rate. Well Cole was way more interested in the Wall-E stickers hanging from the wall and the "camels" in the painting, which he then described to us about how the waterfall was spilling water in to that hole. (It was a painting of what appeared to be a bambi scene)

So after he ran his mouth in there to the nurse, she put us in room number 10.  Cole got a kick out of the bed at first.

Then the nurse came in and put a cotton ball soaked with lidocaine, epinephrine and one other things.  This was to numb the area and stop the bleeding.  Well Cole freaked out because some of the "juice" from the cotton ball dripped down his face and he HATES water on his face.  So I wiped it away and not thinking touched my mouth or tongue at some point because for the next 4 hours my tongue and upper lip were numb.  Anyways, Cole had to sit for about 15 minutes with that bandage on his head and I have never seen him act the way he did.


Before the nurse left I told Cole that after we left we would go get him a treat.  He says "I don't want a treat.  I want a sandwich"  I laughed and the nurse whispered to me "we have turkey sandwiches and popcicles"  So I asked Cole again what he wanted and he said a treat.  So the nurse went to get a popcicle for Cole.  He ate about half and gave it to me because it was "bad" So while I ate the popcicle, Cole was watching the nurses at their desk.  All of a sudden I see him waving and then blowing a kiss to them!  This kid was out of control!!



Shortly after the kissing, Mike showed up and I told him that Cole was in rare form and that I think he hit his head harder than we thought.  Right then Cole yells out to the nurses "I WANT A SANDWICH!!!"
After we finished laughing our heads off the doctor showed up with the nurse and that's when it got interesting.  At first I though Cole would just lay there because he was so good when he got the staple in his head, but the doctor needed to inject more lidocaine and that was not ok with Cole.  Basically I had to pin down his upped half and Mike had the lower half.  Poor kid was freaking out!  About 10 minutes later we were finished and Cole was sobbing in my arms.  I do think half of the reason he was freaking out was due to the snot on his face from crying.  He can't stand a runny nose.

As promised we took Cole to get a treat.  Off to Baskin Robbins we went!  He was super excited to see all the ice cream flavors and happily picked out Fudge Brownie Sundae or something like that.  The video speaks for itself to show you exactly how Cole was acting.

Three stitches later he is doing pretty well!