2 Steps Forward, One Step Over the Crib Rail 

Pretty exciting day today.  Zachary had a great physical therapy session.  He crawled the steps for Susan.  That afternoon when I got home from work he was standing up all by himself.  Kind of wobbly but standing.  Then he did it.  TOOK 2 STEPS TOWARDS ME!  He was so pleased with himself.  He did it again for daddy later in the evening. 

8:00 pm, time for hook up.  We have had 2 mattresses in his bed because he lowest setting was so low…well, not anymore.  As I was spiking his TPN bag he was standing in his crib playing. I look over and he is in slow motion flipping over the top of the rail towards the floor.  I race to catch him but too late.  He landed on his head.  He is screaming, I do what I know I am not supposed to do, I pick him up.  Gary races into the room.  I run towards the car to head to the ER.  Gary is going to follow me after he gets Zachary’s IV’s ready.

On the way to the ER Zachary is still screaming in the back seat.  I am on the phone with the pediatrician and all of a sudden Zachary is silent.  The exchange tells me to hang up and dial 911. 

As I am on the phone with the dispatcher she tells me that Zachary may have a seizure.  Now I am really freaking out.  We are to meet the ambulance at the gas station by my house.  By the time the paramedics get there Zachary is starting to wake up.  As they open the door to the back seat (it is cold outside)  Zachary starts babbling to them and trying to share his pacifier.  They are asking me all sorts of questions, one of them being, “Is it close to his bedtime?”  I felt really stupid like they were trying to tell me he was sleeping because he was just tired.  Probably the case but with all we have been through I didn’t want to chance anything.  We were still going to the ER.  I ended up driving him, by this time Gary was at the gas station so we drove together.  Zachary checked out fine so back home we went. Home and in bed by 10:30.

 Gotta love the Pediatric ER docs at St. Johns Mercy.