injury report

Gavin acquired his third serious injury this morning. This one required a trip to the ER... the real ER this time, not the Children's Close to Home. We were up early this morning because I had a client being induced at 8. Gavin was playing around upstairs in the hall while I came down to start my coffee. I hear a thump then crying.

As I went upstairs I knew what had happened. There was an end table in the hallway, a very unstable end table that was waiting to be moved into the office. Gavin tipped it over when he tried climbing onto it. Trouble is, this particular end table has a heavy, thick slab of slate set (unattached) in the middle. Said slate slid from the table onto Gavin's big toe.

Some racing around ensued. There was blood and crying and screaming and getting dressed and holding of towels to the wound. There was hurried bandaging and whisking the boy off to the ER. And there was a mama left alone in the house wondering why she couldn't be with her baby when he so obviously needed her. But he managed fine with Daddy, and later with Aileen and Brad and later still with Grandma. He was still up when I got home from the birth, too, so I got to cuddle him and see that he was okay and had survived his traumatic day... apart from the one broken toe and a bunch of stitches.