Well, hello there again everyone!!!!!!
Although I cannot say that my mood is much improved from my last post I will not be putting up something nearly as serious. Well, it is a serious post actually but not in the same way.
Today, I woke up abruptly to my hubby yelling, "Damnit, get me a cold rag!!! Hurry up!!!" and my 6-year old son crying. Literally chaos. (Pat had been up for a couple of hours before this allowing me my usual Saturday morning of peace and quiet so I could catch up on some sleep.)
Anyway, I was up out of bed like a shot and out that door in seconds to see everyone hovered around my boy. Not fully awake yet, asking what in the hell was going on, I was told, "He got burned." I looked around the kitchen in my half awake stupor confused because there was no flame on the stove, nothing on the counters but when I looked down at my poor little guy I saw it. Horror escaped from my gut when I saw first the blister on the front of his right shoulder and then when I turned him around another much larger blister and various others on the back of his right shoulder. The one on the front is about the size of a fooseball ball while the one on his back is a little larger than a golf ball. Both of them torn open and the other smaller ones still blistered. I said," Oh my God, what the hell happened?!!! I have to get dressed, he needs to see a doctor. These are second degree burns and I have no idea how to care for burns of this magnitude/size!"
My poor little guy was trying so hard to be tough and not to cry but I knew how badly he wanted to. What happened was my daughter was heating up water in the microwave for hot chocolate, a normal everyday occurance in the house and when she took the cup out of the microwave her and my son collided and wham. Not much water was spilled but enough to cause him to probably be scarred.
I barely remember getting myself ready, called the dr.'s office and was told that we would have to wait for at least an hour for urgent care to open. I was not about to accept that answer as our co-pay is outrageous for the emergency room visit and the waiting in an emergency room would amount to just about 2 hours so I pleaded for them to find a way in which to see him.
15 minutes later, son and I were in the clinic with a dr. and 2 nurses tending to my boy's wounds. Pat needed to run our older daughter on a couple of errands and tend to our 10 year old who felt like a piece of doody because she blamed herself for this. I felt so bad for both of the kids! I didn't know who to hug or who to coddle because they both needed that reassurance that everything was ok!
So, while they cleaned him up he was tough as could be. He didn't shed a tear during the entire visit but I knew that he wanted to. It took them all of 5 minutes to dress his wounds, write out a prescription and ship us off to the pharmacy. I was amazed at how quickly this whole thing played out.
But of course, I have to add that my son has a black eye from Christmas Day. Him and all the men were playing with the boy's new magnetic dart board and my very eager son ran in front of the board just as a dart was thrown and it hit him dead on right on the cheek bone. Needless to say, that ever lingering fear crept into my throat when I realized that he was in the doctors office with a pretty serious burn as well as a black eye, even though there were numerous witness' to both of these incidents. With the broken leg incident, I get that fear each and every time one of my kids needs to be seen.....And with every look the nurses gave my son and the questions they asked me today, I always feel as though I'm being scrutinized and notes are being taken.
As we walked out of the office, I kept looking behind me because of that fear, because I felt that I was going to be stopped at any moment...but this is besides the point of this whole horrible day.
My little guy and I went to the pharmacy, him with no shirt and a mummy type wrapping around his chest and shoulders and a blanket wrapped around him, picked up his prescription and headed home, all within 45 minute of the onset of this rude awakening. On our way down into the valley, I noticed some headlights flashing at me and looked and it was Pat on his way to the hospital. You see, normally when we take one of the kids or ourselves to the doc, it takes hours to just get into the room so I can bet that when he saw us that look on his face that I chuckled at as we passed by eachother was of pure confusion! For once, we could resume our daily plans in a normal fashion, which today included us travelling to the cities to let the kids spend their gift cards that we got them for Christmas. A day that all of us had been anticipating and looking forward to all week. And I must say, the kids had a wonderful time picking out their own things and requested the same gifts for next year only with more money. And our son was so proud of his 'credit card' .
This was but a glitch albeit serious, and our son is acting as if it is just a scrape. When we got home he was walking around here laughing like Dr. Evil telling all of us that we had to be his slaves and do all his chores for him. I explained that I would have to bathe him, wash his hair, and that he would need help with his jacket and such. Of course he elaborated and at the ripe old age of six said that he couldn't write so he shouldn't go to school. I only laughed and sat in amazement at how well he was taking this set back.
It saddens me that he will probably have scars. My daughter is ok with all of it but now fears making her Ramen noodles or hot chocolate. But these things do happen, I am just thankful that it isn't worse and that it wasn't on his face. I have to clean it once a day, apply his medication and he needs to return to the doc on Monday to make sure that all is well. We have to watch him for a fever as well and try to remind him to take it easy but telling a rambuncuous boy that is like telling a dog not to dig in the trash.
So, we are leaving the year 2005 with a big bang!!!!!!!
I gladly welcome the New Year. Pat with his new job, me with yet another 'old' daycare child and am looking forward to beginning anew!!!!!
I wish all of you out there in the world a very SAFE and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!
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