Adam's Bad Day

So Adam my almost 2 year old woke up the other morning and when he was carried into the living room and set down, he didn't move from that spot for about an hour. I checked him for a fever but he was fine. So I decided to feed him some cereal to see if after eating he felt better. I started feeding him and after about 3 bites he piked all over me! That was just lovely!

But after throwing up he acted as if he felt just fine. So he's up running around and having fun with his brother and sisters. I am doing laundry, putting clothes away in the bedrooms when I hear a scream from the living room. I ran in to find Adam with blood pouring from his mouth. I grab a towel and pick him up. I look in his mouth the best I can while he is screaming to find the source of the blood. I realized it was from his tongue. Then after trying to clear the blood enough so I can really look at his tongue, I realize there is a HUGE hole in his tongue.

I am ready to freak out. It looked like it went all the way through and the way the blood was just pouring out, I was very worried. I got my mother to come and look at it and she was able to look under the tongue and said it didn't go all the way through. So I was slightly relieved for that but the blood was still coming and the hole was so big and so deep. We didn't think there was anything they could do for him at the doctors(because have you ever heard of stitches in the tongue before?) but called just in case.

The nurse wanted to make sure it wasn't all the way through the tongue and that it didn't split the muscles. I told her it hadn't. She asked if it had slowed down the bleeding and by that point it thankfully had. So she said to give him Popsicles(cold compress, ya know?) and keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn't continue to bleed or doesn't get infected or anything. So no trip to the doctor. Great!

So he ate the Popsicles unwillingly because it hurt so much. It was nap time so I put him down and was hoping that when he woke up he would feel a lot better. He slept for about an hour and woke up crying. He cried for a bit more so I decided to give him Motrin to see if it would help the pain. Thankfully it seemed to help because in 20 minutes he was up and playing again.

Okay. You would think that would be enough to equal a pretty bad day right? Well obviously not for my poor Adam. While he was outside playing, he got to close to the dog run and our new dog, Sassy, got excited to run after us. Her cable slung Adam up in the air and flipped him. He landed face down in the dirt! He wasn't hurt, just shook up a bit.

He had a few other things happen that just altogether made for a really bad day. But the good thing about it was it wasn't an extremely stressful bad day. Yes, he did get hurt a lot but the rest of the kids were well behaved(except Chyenne having been the one who pushed Adam into the chair and making him bite his tongue), there weren't any other major disasters, or anything. I was thankful for it being mostly calm through all that.

When my husband got home that night and saw Adam's tongue, his face had a look of total horror! His face just said it all.

I would have taken pictures but I didn't think to the day it happened then the next day it had already begun to heal and it wouldn't have been visible.