So this year I will NOT be receiving the mom of the year award...I feel like the worst mom in the world right now:( Austin and I were sitting on the couch this morning doing our normal thing...hanging out and waiting for daddy to call when in a split second Austin stood up on the couch and went from smiling to falling off towards the coffee table. As I stood up to pick him up from off the floor my heart dropped when I saw his head. He had the size of a golf ball on his forehead and it was getting bigger by the second. In a panic, I gathered my things and rushed him to the ER. When I got the ER the wait was too long, so I immediately left and took him to my pediatrician. When I arrived at the doctors office, they got him in right away to asses the damage..Thank GOD it was not as bad as it looked. As I sat there balling, the doctor and her nurse reassured me that this was not the first time they had seen this happen and told me that I would be surprised how often children fall and get hurt.
I still feel like a terrible mother and now my precious son has a goose egg on his forehead to be reminded of how terrible I am...
These pictures were taken several hours after we got back from the doctors and thankfully a lot of the swelling has already gone down...Just imagine this bump ten times larger...YIKES!
Let me just say that my son is going to make me go gray before I am thirty!!
4 comments:
Oh, my friend! I have so been there! I know how awful you feel. Ellis had a huge goose egg this past summer from falling off his little ride on toy out on our driveway. It took awhile to heal (he broke the skin, too), but he was fine after about 20 minutes.
I can't imagine you going through that alone. Hang in there...you are a wonderful mother. :)
Courtney
ok first of all saying you do not deserve that MOMMY AWARD you are so wrong . Do not for a second think that you are a bad mother in any way . This happens to every one believe me sister gabby and emma have gotten theses bumps and yes it looks bad and scary and all that but a bump is a good sign , if there was not a bump it wold be very scary , let me tell you from the daysa before emma was born and me working in a peds office . that is common and normal. nad accidents happen. The fact that you the mother that you were rushed to teh doic , to teh hosptial in fact does deserve the award of mother of the year and gosh by gally you have just earned a award stop by my blog please . I will post it shortly . I have a great one just for you . Being a Mother, wife friend is not ever easy . Heck God does not do easy believe me , he has thrown some balls my way this week , but we hit them with our best shot and fire away. Your cookie monster is a tough cookie and will be fine give him about 5 days it will be black n blue then yellow maybe greenish but he will be just fine active and ready to run in no time. tHANK gOD AND DO NOT FOR A SECOND QUESTION YOPUR MOMMY SKILLS You are a fab mommy and ASustin is so lucky.
hugs michelle
Yikes! I bet that was a scary time. I know I would have been in a panic. Glad the little man is ok.
go to my blog silly and get your award that you do deserve . Sef it happens to every one join the Mommy club it is scary but a bump is real good news .
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