A night away.....

You know i love a night away, yummy hotel, girlfriend get a way, family vaca....whose soul doesn't recharge from that??? Sadly getaways don't always come packaged in our preferred choice.  We had just been hit by the typical mini monsoon that breeze through here every couple of days when Andre' decided he was going to head up the street to see if the neighbor kids wanted to head to the pool.  I'm sitting in my office, the front door is across the house (and remember the houses are solid concrete so they are pretty sound proof), when i hear this scream, that only a mom know's it's one of her little ones and it just shot up my spine.  I ran to the front door as he was running in holding his head...yep, wet tile out front, slipped straight back and smacked his head on the floor.  ugh!!!  This isn't our first rodeo (had to insert that in for Jen and Michele) with hitting the head so i did the check the dilation, no vomiting...the only mystery was did he pass out since no one was outside when this happened.  Piled the ice pack on and he was good to go, figuring we will keep an eye on him for the next 2 - 3 days, which is what the hospital always says. Well almost 24 hours later, we are heading home from a Thanksgiving Dinner party (yeah) and in the car Andre' said his head was really hurting and his eyes were getting blurry.....WHAT????  So off to the hospital, cat scan, iv port, and the emergency room doc's diagnosis that his brain was a little swollen...just what parents want to hear!  Andre' and i were then checked into a room, the really funny part was when we got into his room he was like, "ooo mom this isn't a very nice room" i guess it wasn't up to his 4 - 5 star standard :) The next morning the "official" neurologist arrived and seemed very please with his scan, and felt the ER doctor had misread it as an adult brain which in that case it would appear swollen.......seriously! Out came the I.V. port and happily out the door we ran and hopefully won't ever have to look back :) lessons learned.....don't run on wet tile, when you first move somewhere do a TRIAL run of the location of the hospital....not in the heat of the emergency!