Frog's Emergency Room Visit

Best apple juice ever!

Sunday night turned out to be much more active than I'd expected. Will couldn't sleep so he crawled into our bed and keep me up from about 1am till 3am. Thanks little guy! The silver lining of his late night shenanigans was that I was up to hear Colin crying when he hit his head. We're still not sure if he fell out of bed or hit it on the edge of his desk but needless to say it hurt! And to top it off he started throwing up every 15 minutes... for the next four hours! After a quick, though probably unnecessary confirmation from our pediatrician we headed to the emergency room to get Colin checked out around 4am.

 I wasn't thrilled with the idea of putting him through a second CT scan but there really wasn't a better option so into the donut hole we went. Thankfully, they let Wilber get his "picture taken" in the big machine too.  Both Colin and Wilber were champs and after Colin's second round of anti-nausea meds he finally, finally started to feel a little better. I think the apple juice did wonders for his spirit as well, after all it'd been 5 hours since he'd been able to hold down anything!

The results showed no damage to his brain, thank you sweet baby Jesus but they did find that he had acute sinusitis. Which, is basically 100% blocked sinuses and could have caused the vomiting or perhaps Colin just reacts to a head injury by vomiting. They just aren't sure. Nothing like unanswered medical questions to make a parent feel safe. As for me missing the sinusitis, well hey, Mother of the Year! I knew he had the sniffles but other than reminding him a thousand times a day to blow his nose and not sniff I hadn't thought much about it. 

I can't say enough how much I appreciated the doctor and nursing staff at INOVA Alexandria! Despite it being the last few hours of their night shift they were all so kind and went out of their way to make Colin comfortable. One of the nurses actually told us they didn't want to discharge Colin because all the nurses were in love with him. 

After picking up his meds we headed home around 9am just in time to see daddy off to work. No surprise Will slept in after being up much of the night and woke up right about the time we got home. Again, thanks little guy! We all laid low watching movies, napping and reading books for the rest of the day. 

Oh and Will wanted me to add a picture from his trip to the dentist's office on Tuesday since I was doing a whole post on Colin. So here is Will looking cool in his zebra shades with our sweet dental hygienist Hannah. 

We're off to North Carolina tomorrow morning and we are all so ready to see Tia and hit the beach!

Till Next Time, 
Mamma, Frog & Toad