Hey,
To get rid of suspense, his head is okay, just scared me really bad.
I'm kinda freaking out, just wondering if anyone has ever been through this. This morning was pretty normal, I drive my brother to work, I come home, have a smoke on the back deck, and then start my day. Ally was the first to get up, so I start making breakfast for everyone. I hear Austyn in his room (we live in the basement of my parents house) downstairs. So I go down, take his cup and open his door. He smiles his little smile, hobbles down off his bed, and comes out of his door. I start going up the stairs and I hear this crash, I was only 2 feet away from him, I turn, he cries and there is blood EVERYWHERE.
Well I just flipped out. I didn't know where his cut was (It turned out to be the back of his head), or what he hit himself on, I still don't know, there was blood everywhere so I couldn't narrow it down, but it's a basement so there is concret floor, and corners to doors and whatnot.
Well don't we all know that I pick him up and carry him up the stairs, the whole time yelling, I NEED HELP! Because this is my third kid and I still don't know what to do. My dad looks at him and says, OH my god take him to the hospital, I just run around like an idiot.
Does anyone else ever have a mind fart when something really bad happens? Just totally blank. My dad had to tell me like 3 times to go to the hospital before I ever caught on.
Luckily, he's okay. The doctor said they didn't want to put him through stitches if they didn't have it. And I guess the skin didn't get ripped away from the head, it was just open, so the glued it, how weird is that?
I always thought I'd be okay in an emergency, but I saw all that blood, and just completely panicked. Do most moms do that when it's their kids? I've never had a kid injured more than like a scraped knee or something.
Austyn Split his head open
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Thu, 2005-07-07 21:07
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Austyn Split his head open
Heck yeah, I'd be going crazy too. Having your own child get injured is the worst feeling ever. When ever my son falls down and bangs his head I always feel like my heart is in my throat and that feeling doesn't go away until I know he's completely safe and nothing is wrong.
You're not weird at all, I think most moms are the same way!
If i ever get freaked out like that, I remind myself over and over that I don't want my child to be scared, and that keeps me calm.
Well I have never had my kid injured, seeing as how im pregnant with my first. But I did have my head split open when I was a kid. It was sort of funny... I was weird and was always building machines and contraptions and I decided to build a machine to protect people from falling on the radiator and hurting themselves, out of ropes pulleys and pillows, and then I needed to test it to see if it worked. (anyone see where this is going?). So I smash my head on this big metal radiator, and call my mother in the room. I told her I feel funny and that my brains are leaking outand she looked at it and said no its not. I had really long hair to my bum, and there was no blood. I said yup my brains are comming out I feel them all sticky, and she just goes if you actually split your head open you would be crying. So I told her to look better and so she sighs and parts my hair then starts freaking out, the entire underside of my hair down my back is soaked with blood and my hair had been mopping it up. So she freaked and raced me and my friend to the doctor, while I sat calmly in the back. Then they gave me a pill to make the feeling go away.... nothing. so they gave me an adult dose...nothing. So then they put the needle in the back of my head so they could do stiches...I start screaming but it wasnt frozen properly. (drugs didnt work on me when I was little for some reason) I had to get 10 stitches down the back of my head and I FREAKED as soon as they tried to do it. They popped out twice and then I had to be held down kicking and screaming, because I was ripping them out cuse they hurt. THen my mother tottaly calmed down at that point and was okay. We like traded spots. I dont know how relevant that was but it was kinda similar..splitting open back of the head sort of.
Good, I thought I was a weirdo, but none of my kids have ever hurt themselves. Ally one time fell, and got a little tiny pebble lodged in her forhead, I had to take it out with tweezers, and it bled quite a bit, but it wasn't big, and it didn't need stitches.
I'm kinda glad they just glued his head shut, but he picked at it last night, so I'm kinda worried, I'm sure it will heal just fine, but I don't want him to hurt himself again.
Yesterday afternoon though, Austyn and Ally got into an arguement, and I guess Ally pushed him, he fell and cut his lip. Never a dull moment in my house I'm telling you. And poor Austyn, what kinda luck does he have.
Head/face injuries always bleed a lot due to the higher number of capillaries etc close to the surface, so just because there is a lot of blood doesn't necessarily mean that it's a major injury (although obviously injuries to the head can cause concussion and other such worries). Glad that your kiddo is OK though.