I swear keeping the boys in this house alive is the hardest thing I have ever had to do. In 2017 while I was in the US with Madeline for 2 weeks and Joseph was staying with my parents, he tripped on a ladder end and smacked his front teeth resulting in a trip to emergency, multiple dental follow ups and as the final blow, emergency dental surgery to remove them after they developed an abscess above each tooth. Last night we got to play a second round of that game, when Alex fell off a bar stool where he was perched playing Nintendo. A place he's sat a million times before, but this time was a dismal fail. Smacked his face on the way down on a wooden dresser and there was blood and tears all over the place. He did exactly the same thing as Joseph and his teeth were bleeding around the edges requiring a trip to the Midland Emergency Department.
He screamed the place down when Doug tried to clean him up, then wailed in the car until we got to the highway, but was still breathing shakily and sobbing when he fell asleep. so it was definitely something that needed checking, not something I was comfortable with leaving.
People always talk about their horrendous waits at the hospital, but we have been so blessed in the past and yet again last night. We were seen within 30 mins of arriving, by a wonderful doctor, then by his supervising doctor to confirm his diagnosis. All his teeth were still firmly in place and still well aligned and we were sent home to sleep it off. We went into the McDonald's drive through to get him a frozen drink, but he was fast asleep before he could even drink any of it, it was still sitting untouched in his seat when we got home.
His mouth is well and truly bruised, and he has a giant fat lip, but it's looking okay thank goodness.
Now we are just on high alert for the next few months, watching for the abscess that would alert us to nerve damage and making sure he doesn't suffer the same fate as Joseph did.
Poor baby. That was a hell of a whack!
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