Sorry if this is long. Ok, here goes.
FAINT OF HEART BE WARNED We were finishing eating at Chef Mickey's and Joe, my DS was getting restless, so when I finished, I took him out into the hotel lobby area outside the restaurant. He was about 2.5 yo at the time. Joe was really wound up and got his hand loose from mine, started running, and just as I started to grab him, felt his shirt in run across my fingers, he smashed his face into the metal arm of one of those benches that sit in the lobby. He started crying hysterically. Without knowing what the damage was or if there was any, I picked him up and held him tight. Next thing I know, the guy selling DVC is running towards me and I feel something warm running down my arm. There was massive amounts of blood running down my arm and on my clothes, etc. I, surprisingly remained calm. It could not have been more than a couple of minutes after it happened when a vacationing paramedic on his way to dinner at Chef Mickey's came over and offered assistance. An EMT also stopped. Then a several minutes after that, the manager of the hotel came by, shortly followed by 2 uniformed paramedics. The response was quick and overwhelming. Finally, DH and DD waundered out trying to locate me and realized that we were in the middle of this swarm of people. They got me ice and towels and we got the bleeding to slow down to a trickle, and Joe calmed down after a bit. They sent us to an after hours pedicatric emergency clinic actually. There they put a little vest on him to hold him down and put two stitches in his lip. That is when I lost it. DH stayed in the room with him while DD went with me to quietly lose it in the women's bathroom. Got some antibiotics for the lip and ear infection. The next day, he was back to running around like a crazy person, seemingly unphased. Kids are resilient eh?
That is my story and I am sticking to it.