Not surprised

Well I'm not surprised Brody hurt himself again. He seems to be one tough little guy, but still gets hurt pretty bad. On Thursday I was leaving the house and Brody wanted to follow me or say good-bye and came running after me, he tripped on the rug at the front door and fell and hit his head on either the screen door or the door jam (I didn't see it so I'm not sure). Well he split his head open pretty bad. There was blood to start off, but after not too long it was just a gaping hole. I took him to the hospital and the whole way there he kept saying "I don't want stitches." Yes he has had stitches already. When he was about a year and a half he pulled my sewing machine down on his forehead and split it open. He still has a scar from that. When we got to the hospital it was packed in emerg. We waited for about 6 hours and then finally got taken to a room in the Stollery area, but still had to wait there for about an hour. Good thing I had my camera to pass the time. Brody was such a trooper. He ended up getting 3 staples. They told us it would heal better than stitches. I originally told him that after we were done I'd take him to Wendy's.......I didn't realize we would be getting out of the hospital at midnight. So I took him to Tim Horton's instead and he was fine with that. What have I learned from this? Well, I have learned that this being the second time Brody has been in the hospital thus far, when taking a child to the hospital quickly pack lots of items. Food, camera, money, extra clothes, sweater for yourself (it's cold in there), cell phone, some sort of small gaming system would be handy, and lots of PATIENCE.
On the way to the hospital I tried to distract Brody with his favorite song, and it worked. Too bad I taped it sideways, sorry.