Happy 21 months Dexter! I can't believe that we will be celebrating birthday number 2 in just a few short months. I'm hoping the terrible twos are halfway over since he's been a tantrum-beast for a few months now. Lucky for us, he can speak well enough to get his point across. At the same time, that means he makes requests. His current favorite is "hot chocolate". He's cute, funny, loving, and fun to play with 85% of the time. That remaining little sliver of pure hell isn't fun, but it's all worth it when he gives me big hugs and says "I love you".
On Monday, Dexter had a scary accident. Lauren, our nanny, had just come in and we were chatting as she was settling in to take over. Dexter climbed up on a chair like he always does. We both were just inches away when he decided to sit down on the arm of the chair. I think he thought he was sitting in the seat adn not on the arm. I saw it all play out. He sat down and he just flipped backwards off the arm. There was no warning that he was going to sit; no warning that he was going to lean back; no warning even that he had lost his balance. He just plopped down, flipped backwards and was on the floor in less than a second. I saw him clearly fall and hit the back of his head with all of his body weight on the hardwood floor. I knew it was a bad fall, so I immediately went and picked him up.
He screamed just as I expected him too. That was a good sign. I figured it was just going to be about calming him down until his cry thinned out. I looked at him and all the color had left his face. He was pale and he had broken into a cold sweat. His cry wasn't nearly as piercing and he started going limp. He never lost consciousness, but his demeanor changed dramatically. We called the pediatric urgent care nurse who told us to go to the Emergency Room immediately to have him checked out.
Dexter was dazed and not himself. His color was off, but he could walk and was talking. I almost didn't go to the ER, but I remembered that woman who had the head injury who was walking and talking and later died from a bump in the head while skiing. That's not a risk worth taking.
By the time we got to the triage nurse Dexter was acting a little more normal, so she sent us to the Pediatric Urgent Care to get checked out since it didn't seem to be life threatening. Due to some misunderstandings, we had to wait for an hour and a half to see the doctor. By that time Dex was pretty much back to normal. It had taken about 2 hours for him to get back to normal. The doctor said he definitely had a concussion. I had to make sure he rested. He couldn't go to any playgrounds or horse around for a couple days. I had to check on him while he slept, but he should be fine.
He was fine. He bounced back like a rubber ball. He wasn't 100% for the first 24 hours, but he's back to his normal stunts again. I asked him about the experience. He said "boctor, green chair, go boom, owie". That pretty much sums it up.
