It was bound to happen!
Today we had our first real injury. Lil T with his daredevil self. He is such a bundle of energy. So a couple weeks ago I posted about the lil daredevil in one of the Wordless Wednesday posts. Everyone that commented seemed very concerned as I was but what could I do. I mean I would have had to take away all his larger toys because he climbs on everything. He is so strong that even some of his shorter toys he would stand on and pull himself up. So anyways, he was climbing on the window ledge again today and I was watching him lower himself to the storage tote he used to climb up and he seemed to have had it. He was making his way down without any problems. Then with the blink of an eye he slipped I guess is what you could say he did. He fell all the way to the ground.
It seemed to happen in slow motion, I can still see it replay in my head. He hit his head on the window ledge. Well not his head but his chin. I figured it was going to produce some blood. I am however, very weak when it comes to cuts and blood. So I swooped him up and held him to stop crying. I gathered myself and my thoughts and feelings and decided I needed to look to make sure it wasn’t an emergency room situation. Well, it wasn’t an emergency room situation but he definitely did a number on his chin, it kinda split open. It wasn’t very big but it was deep. There wasn’t even that much blood.
The pic isn’t very clear but you can see the cut. Poor baby, I feel so bad for him!
So we sat on the couch so I could comfort him and hold some paper towel on his chin and he was just, I think, in shock. I gave him some children’s Tylenol to help with the pain. Within 30 min he was running around the living room again, trying to climb on things. By the end of the day he didn’t have much of anything to play with since I kept taking it away. I would take one thing away and he would run straight to the next and try and climb on it.
Now I am going to have this overpowering paranoia that he is going to hurt himself every step he takes. I just can’t stop him. I know people out there are saying, “well of course you can you’re his mother” but seriously he climbs on the couch, his toys and all the furniture. He is exhausting. LOL!
April 1st, 2009 at 10:56 am
Hon dont feel bad there will be a lot more
I cant count the times my daughter fell off of our bed and would end up with a rug burn on her forehead..all before she was one years old. Today she is a Chemist so falling didnt hurt her…it might have helped 
April 1st, 2009 at 2:52 pm
BTDT many times. For the first two years of her life, Wild Child was in the ER on her birthday.. both times she had her finger closed up in the front door. The second time, it split her little finger wide open. The ER Dr had to remove her nail and give her stitches. So just be prepared, after a while, you get used to all of the bumps, bruises and whatnots kids put us through. Many times it hurts use worse than it does them.
{{{HUGS}}}