Hospital Visit

Oh man, Mom and Dad sure know how to over react! We were visiting some friends for dinner one Saturday night when I accidentally fell down a few stairs. I'm not really sure what happened, one minute I was playing at the top of the stairs, then next I managed to open the gate (I'm really very clever for my age) and was barrel rolling down the stairs, I made it down 3 or 4 stairs when Mom caught me, lucky she was there! I nailed my head pretty good though and got a nice goose egg right on my forehead, but I was fine. It didn't really even hurt. They tried to put ice on it, but I didn't want that cold stuff! I wanted more cheese to eat, mmmmm, cheese makes everything better. So they finally stopped trying to ice my head and let me play. I had a great time the rest of the night and slept like a baby that night.

The problem started on Sunday morning... I woke up with a runny nose. It was clear and it just kept coming out. It didn't bother me, I think it was just allergies. Mom didn't think too much of it either until she decided to google it when I woke up from my nap and it was all over my face. OH NO! What is wrong with Google! Google told my mom that she needed to be worried about a runny nose after a head injury! It could be my brain stem fluid or something ridiculous like that leaking out of my nose. So they packed me up and took me to the ER.

Luckily our good friend Karen was working as an ER nurse so we didn't have to wait too long to see the doctor. Karen is the best. She gave me bubbles and play dough and a fun light stick sparkler wand thing. It was great. All these doctors came in to check me and none of them could figure out why my nose was running after about 2 hours they finally decided to just give me a CT scan... that means they took pictures of my brain! Isn't that wild. I had to get strapped down, which I didn't particularly love, but I guess it was better than getting knocked out for it. Anyway, 20 minutes after the scan the doctor came in to say everything was OK! It wasn't brain stem fluid, my skull was totally fine. woo hoo!

To celebrate we went out to eat a pizza pot pie at Chicago Pizza & Oven Grinders! mmmmm pizza!


Then I woke up on Monday with a cold, green boogers, eye boogers, and a small cough... go figure! I'm never going to ask Google anything when I get older!