First urgent care visit

Today was the first, and I'm willing to bet not the last time, we will end up in urgent care.  My children are little dare devils.  They like to push the limits and see what they are capable of... and that's great.  Lucy is now figuring out that she can climb and is trying to go down the stairs.  Hrm.  But that's not what took us to urgent care today.

Poor little Duder.  I was chasing Lucy down in the other room and Dude was just laying on our bed.  Next thing I know I hear this bang, and then a thud followed quickly by crying.  Which is unusual for him.  Usually when he rolls off the bed or hurts himself he doesn't cry right away, or at all.  I was about three steps away from him and by the time I got there he already had blood streaming down his cute little face.  I know that head wounds bleed like crazy and I think that it surprised him.  My first thing to do was to try to stop the bleeding and get him cleaned up as best as possible.  The added benefit is now I have Lucy running around and trying to get into everything.  So I get Duder into the bathroom, and applied pressure to his head with one hand, and I start baby proofing with the other hand.  Putting toilet paper our or reach, putting his potty out of playing and trying to make sure that she doesn't get into the cabinets.  It's interested to say the least.  Duder did really well.  He stayed still and let me hold it on his head even though he told me that his poor little head hurt.  Add to the fact that Lucy is naked because I was in the middle of changing her diaper before all the chaos broke loose.

The wound all cleaned up

It kept bleeding a bit though, so we tried to keep it clean

After I get the bleeding under control I call Gaetan.  Poor Papa was in the middle of taking his E and M final, but he had the car... So I called him twice, because sometimes Dude gets a hold of my phone and call but he normally doesn't call twice.  So he calls back and I tell him what happened and if he could get home as soon as possible that would be great!

After I get Duder cleaned up we go downstairs for treats/snacks.  I know that would distract him.  I knew that if I could distract him until Gaetan got home then we would be OK.  After the initial shock and clean up he didn't cry at all.  He was really well behaved!  Typical Dude.  We had some lemon-blueberry cupcakes, corn muffins, kind hot tea (what he calls green tea with honey) and frozen peas.  Even with all the craziness going on he wanted to make sure that Lucy had some snacks too.  he's such a lover.  After snack was done we watched some Baby Einstein until Gaetan got home.  His Prof was more than understanding and let him go ASAP.

We went to the Urgent Care closest to our house.  Registration went smoothly.  Dude didn't want to wear his ID bracelet initially but then after we told him that Lucy could wear one too then he was more about it.  We didn't have to wait very long either.  I was impressed.  After the nurse came in and took the basic information the Dr came in.  Our Dr was great.  He wanted to get a little more information and while he did that he blew bubbles to distract Dude.  It was great.  He was really good with him and wanted to avoid giving him staples.  He said he could definitely use it, but wanted to try the glue first.  It would be less painful and easier for him to forget about later.  So glue it was!  And it worked.  After the procedure was done (which he wasn't that thrilled about) he got a sticker, and a popsicle.

Procedure done. A bit upset, but a big trooper.

Got his popsicle!

Goose Girl occupying herself in the room.

All in all I'd say it was a good first experience.  An experience all parents will have to undergo I'm sure... and I'm surprised that it's been this long!  But our sweet boy will have to just recover.  When we got home he was back to his running around self, and I was glad about that.  We were worried that after he got hurt he would be overly cautious and not play, but that doesn't seem to be the case.  His head is sore/sensitive but that will heal in time.  :)

Our big Duder.  Two thumbs up.

I'm glad that our Boy is so resilient.  Love you our active boy.

JVG