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rockin out with your kids is awesome! being a mom and being yourself. The spray park at beale park grassy knolls+chunky mommies=sprained baby foot new toys at parks are awesome! missin my hubby, huggin my bubby.... our life, our love, our journey. April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 
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grassy knolls+chunky mommies=sprained baby foot
so i was letting aidan play outside in front of the apartment where there is dirt and plants and such next to the front door. he likes the dirt, and i think he's cute all muddy and stuff. so anyways, further down the sidewalk there is a downhill slope to get to the street, i was hoping he would stay away from there because it is a MAJOR slope, almost vertical in some spots. low and behold, what does he do? runs straight for the most vertical part of the knoll! after 30 minutes of going nowhere near the grade he bolts! i take off after him and in a flurry of freaking out i snatch him up, slip on the dewey grass (im wearing flip flops which makes this rescue even more dangerous!) and land right on top of his tiny (compared to mine, large compared to other kids his age) leg and foot. I hear a snap and a screech then a lot of crying! i instantly burst into tears because i knew i had hurt him, and pretty seriously, my kid is gangsta, he never cries, so i knew he was badly injured. I rush into the house lie him on the couch and hurry to my freezer to fill a bag with ice. he's not having the ice, he's kicking and everytime he does the cries get louder and my tears flow more. his leg wasn't swollen or discolored, however, the arch of his right foot was super swollen. i was totally freaking out! i was scared if i took him to the hospital they would think i had done it on purpose. but i drove like a bat out of hell (not to crazy, i didn't want to get into a accident) to mercy southwest. in tears (both of us) i took him into the ER. It was the quickest experience i've ever had at an ER, we were there for a total of about an hour and a half..... after all the stressin i had done it turned out there were no fractures or breaks! THANK WHOMEVER! but i couldn't help but notice every single person i talked to in there kept asking me the same 2 questions: "so this happened at home?" and "so you 'fell' on him while 'playing'?" i knew it, they thought i had done it on purpose! that's so jacked! i think i was more upset about the mishap than aidan was. lol. but all in all, nothing happened, they took some x rays, told me he had probably just sprained his foot and to give him some tylenol and wait a few days. he had to crawl around for a few days and he was super frustrated but then my lil rider got back on his foot and forced himself to walk on it and now he's fine. all crazy as usual. so yeah, it was definitely an experience i will probably have many more times in my life with him, considering he has a PW50 sitting in grandpas garage waiting for him to get big enough to hit that throttle and get on the track! 5 comments from 5 users
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posted by
Mary
on Apr 29, 2008 at 02:46 PM
Poor Aiden! I am just glad neither of you got hurt more seriously! posted by
Rhiannon
on Apr 29, 2008 at 02:57 PM
WOW! How scary! I know my ER day will come, but I hate to even think about it. AHHH! Well I am glad he is okay, sure could have been worse! And that is awful that hospital staff see so much abuse that they almost have to have a guilty until proven innocent mindset. Very sad symptom of such a tragic problem in our world. posted by
Christina
on Apr 29, 2008 at 03:10 PM
Glad you guys are ok! But you are right, that won't be the last time you're at an ER or Urgent Care with him! We've had to call 911 on my oldest twice before he was even 2 1/2... and urgent care/ER visits? I don't know how many of those we've had. My 8 day old fell off our bad last year. Call me a bad mom, but who knew 8 day old baby's could roll over?!?!?! I was terrified to call the doctor's, thinking that they would think I was being a neglectful mom. Luckily he was just fine, and the on-call nurse was heaven-sent. Rhiannon is right, it's sad that they have to question so many things. My daughter always has bruises on her legs (she's the clumsiest child I've ever seen) and I always worry at her appointments that they might question me on that! posted by
pedigo328
on Apr 29, 2008 at 04:03 PM
This takes me back to my young sleding days when I lived up by Yosemite. My mother and I were sleding down the hills, and I was about 4. We hit a bump and my mom landed right on top of my little self. Of course like any kid I cried and cried, but with youngins parents or grown ups never know how serious it is. Well my dad somewhat made me walk on it the next few days and finally they took me to the docs office. After discovering that she HAD broken my right leg, their hearts dropped to their stomachs and the lump in their throats grew huge (as they explain.) So it's a good thing you took it a bit more serious! posted by
morrisonj
on Apr 30, 2008 at 08:15 AM
Definitely know how you feel. I've had two ER stories... The first was my little girl - not even 1 year old. I was in school for my Master's, taking a final. My husband took the kids to church. My daughter was on the slide, slid down funny, and dislocated her elbow. My husband calls me during my final - so I know this is an emergency - and says he is taking Holly to the hospital. We have only one car, so I felt totally hopeless. My professor let me go - I didn't even have to take my final! He sent someone else who also had an A in the class to take me to the hospital. As they were taking X-ray's, her elbow popped back into place. She was in a sling and everything! So scarry. As mom's and dad's, we get through all the stresses in life. Sometimes I forget how resilient our children can truly be. They go through the pain and then forget so quickly. I am a toal wimp when it comes to pain, my own or my children's. I am just so glad that God is on my side, taking care of everyone that I care about. We become stronger through our trials and there is always a lesson to learn! That is one thing I love about life...always learning to do life better.
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