Oh, yes… she has the other children beat at the age of their first ER visit. Monday morning, Audrey was sitting at the kitchen table, well not sitting, she insists on standing on her chair. And we all repeatedly tell her to sit down so she doesn’t fall. ( We have a high top kitchen table, so the chairs a quite a bit higher off the ground.) We had already taken Jocelyn to school. Audrey, Eli and I were sitting at the table finishing breakfast and reading the paper, when Audrey fell off the chair. Her head hit the hard wood floor… I really thought she was going to be knocked out. I jumped out my chair and picked her up. The cry where you have to blow in their face to get them to breathe. I sat with her, but felt no bump. I called my friend, Kelly, who is a nurse to ask what I need to watch for. She named several things and one of them was vomiting. If she vomits, I would have to take her to the dr. Low and behold, I get Eli in the car, almost to preschool and Audrey starts to vomit. Not just a little… 3-5 minutes of projectile vomiting. I called Kelly and she said that she would meet me at the hospital. I called Brian and he was on his way too. By this time, I was in front of Eli’s preschool, so I ran him to the door where one of my friends took him to his class. I rushed to the hospital. I turned around frequently and kept calling Audrey’s name. She was out of it. I was afraid that she was going to fall asleep. Got to the ER. I opened the van door and attempted to get her cleaned up a little. I took off her shirt and wrapped her in my jacket. I carried her in. Checked us in. Got her vitals, they were good. They got us back to a room where we waited for the doctor. By the time she came in, Audrey was up moving around. Back to her “normal” self. So I felt much better. The doctor checker her out, talked to us and told us that she would reccommend doing a CT scan. She told us that it was up to us. Brian and I looked at each other and we both shook our heads yes. That would be more reassurance that everything was fine. So we walked with her to radiology. Brian and I both put on those big heavy jackets. We laid Audrey up on the table and they covered her with the blanket (heavy… same material as the jackets). They told me to hold her head still, only using my fingers under her chin. And they told Brian to put his hands over her feet. At first, she was a little squirmy, but smart daddy told her to look at the choo choo train. (For those of you that haven’t seen a CT machine, it spins around your body and could look like a train). She was so still. The tech said that he wished every toddler was like her! We went back to her room and waited and waited and waited. In the meantime, Brian left to get Eli from preschol. The dr came in and said everything looked normal. THANK GOD! Our prayers were answered! Although, while we were there, we did find out that Audrey has an ear infection. Who knew!!
We left and met Brian and Eli at home. Eli was very concerned. Poor kid, he probably had no idea what was going on. He ran up to Audrey and gave her a hug. Audrey was fine the rest of the day. She gave us a big scare. Thankfully, nothing serious!
At dinner Monday night, guess who still wouldn’t sit down in her chair!! I think I am going to have to tie her down!!
Belden Bunch 
