Hey. I just wanted to let everyone know in case you haven't heard that we were at Osage Beach this past weekend on our annual family weekend with my family and we had the scare of our lives! Spencer is fine now, but Saturday evening my mom was pushing him in his stroller and fell with him because it was dark and there was a drop off in the pavement. Spencer hit his head on the asphalt and I was in the room when my mom came carrying his limp body in. My cousin Amy is a doctor and she examined him and thought he looked fine, but sent us on to the ER. When we got to the ER he started vomiting and we were immediately taken to another room so they could start an IV and do a CT Scan. They said it would take the doctor about 30 minutes to read the scan. In less than 10 minutes the doctor had came back and said that they were going to be life flighting him to Columbia because he had fluid on his brain. I had gone up front to fill out paperwork at the time and when i came back the nurse told me that he had blood on his brain. I was very hysterical and had to watch them load Spencer onto the gurney to be put into the helicopter. No one could ride with him. The car drive to Columbia was the longest car ride of our lives. I didn't know if he would even be alive when we got there. When we got there we were told that he made the flight fine and that he was just mad. They admitted him to ICU overnight and as soon as I picked him up he stopped screaming and fell asleep. I think he was waiting for mommy and daddy to get there! They woke him every 2 hours through the night and in the morning after 3 teams of doctors had been checking him out, they decided that the fluid was probably something he was born with and not even related to the fall. We have to go back in 2 weeks and have another CT Scan, but he should outgrow it on his own. You cannot imagine the relief we felt the next morning when he woke up and started running around trying to pull his IV out and playing and laughing! Thank the Lord he is going to be just fine!!! Just wanted to let you all know. Please continue to keep him in your prayers through his next test. And by the way, I think my mom is fine except a torn up elbow. She was very upset and felt guilty, but it was just a freak accident. I can tell you that I will never look at my precious son the same way again. I told myself the whole time in the car that as long as he survived, the rest would be ok!
Love, Monica