As it turns out, Trevor was in the ER after they noticed a golf ball sized lump protruding from his forehead. Not sure entirely how he got it but they were playing peek-a-boo in the master bath and Papa went in and saw that Trevor had soap on his face so he handed him to Grandma to wash it off and as Grandma did that she noticed the huge bump. Poor guy! Guess he didn't even cry.
So being the good Grandparents they are, they took him into the emergency room to get it checked out. Trevor was laughing and flirting with the nurses so he was back to his old self, but given the size and the fact that he is their grandson they wanted to take the extra precaution. Luckily the ER saw him even though Mommy and Daddy forgot to leave a medical consent form and his medical coverage ID was back home in MN!
Grandma drove the Denali to the emergency room because she just couldn't look at it and Papa sat in the back playing a game with Trevor so that he could get some ice on the wound. Papa would put the ice pack on his head and count to five and then shake his head...then Trevor would do the same. Sounds like they made it to the ER in record time!
Trevor wasn't a fan of having to wear a bracelet on his foot but once Grandma put one on her wrist he was fine!
Same with getting his blood pressure checked. Grandma had to get hers done too. Funny story here is that Trevor was too big for the infant/toddler blood pressure tool so they had to get out the child one! Our big boy!
Trevor also didn't like laying in the examination bed but once Grandma got in there too he was fine. That and a TV with buttons that was all his to play with :)
Papa tried to get a picture of the bump. Not the best, but you probably saw the mark and subsequent black and blue mark in the previous post of our AZ trip.
Needless-to-say, Mommy and Daddy didn't eat at the buffet after getting the call and hopped right in the car to head back to Scottsdale (about a 4 hour trip). That was a long trip. Matter-of-fact we didn't even turn on the radio for the first hour and a half and just sat in silence worried for our little guy. That wasn't a fun call to get but accidents do happen. And the mind tends to wander when you don't see pictures and don't know what happened. We did though get to talk to the ER doctor on our cell phone and things sounded good which helped a bit (and yes, his ear tubes are still in) but we weren't really okay until we got home and could give our special guy cuddles and see for ourselves.
We were on concussion watch for the next two nights which he passed every time we had to wake him. His bump went down as planned too. Now it is just a large vertical black and blue mark and fading by the day. We feel very lucky that it wasn't worse and that Trevor is back to his old, happy, self!
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