Then there were 3… Will, Lil, and Eli: BRUISER

Friday, October 28, 2011

BRUISER

So....Will is a boy, a rough boy, who is prone to hit his head on a regular basis. In fact, in the past three months he has nailed his head, square in the forehead, three times. The first two times were far enough apart that the bruise wasn't terrible, but still noticable. The third time happened about 3-4 weeks ago and was BAD!

This was Monday......

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I was in Tuscaloosa for a few days for a conference and Pat sent me this picture of Will. You can see the remnants of bruise 2 on his forehead. He's still got a little goose egg, but getting better.

Well, sometime between Tuesday night and Friday morning his head went from look like the above picture to looking like this........

This picture was taken in the waiting room of the doctor's office on Friday morning. I just so happened to be on fall break so I was able to run Will in early to let the doc get a look at it. I was a nervous wreck because I didn't know how Will got this bruise on his head. The first two times have happened at school and this third time there was no school report. I thought it was just reappearing without re-injury......so to the doctor we went!

The doctor insisted that he probably hit it again before it had healed and that I just missed it, but he ordered blood work just in case. So, off to the Medical Mall we went to get blood taken. As you can imagine, this was not the best time of Will's life. He screamed bloody murder and it took three of us to hold him down so the blood could be drawn! Poor guy! Didn't have time to grab a snap shot of that experience. Thankfully the doc called back later that day with good news, nothing out of the ordinary with the blood work and Will more than likely just re-injured the area before it healed completely.

I'm glad I went to the doctor though, because by Sunday morning we were looking like this.........