We had the Kids up on the weekend and it was relatively quiet time. Saturday we stayed in Carleton Place and checked out the Shrek 3rd movie in the afternoon (instant review: decent, but forgettable) and then played some games in the evening after dinner. A fun time.
Sunday we had to go to town so we went out for breakfast and then later in the day we went to the park. And that's when all hell broke loose.
The playground equipment has one part where there is a square metal standing surface that is raised about 8-12 inches off the ground and is about a meter square. Off one side are hanging bars and off another side are more hanging bars that are higher and farther out. Holden was standing on the metal square and decided to show me (I was standing maybe four feet away) how he could jump up and grab the first bar of the smaller set of hanging bars.
He dropped down and got back on the metal square and started to look at the higher bars. They were about 4-6 inches higher and 3 inches farther out then the smaller ones, and I could practically see his mind working out whether he could grab them or not. I must have been a little drowsy from the busy weekend or I would have told him not to try it, it was too far. I could see in my head him jumping, missing, falling down, and then falling backwards and hitting the raised metal platform. But alas, I was too slow.
He jumped. He touched the bar and almost got his fingers around it, but not quite. He fell, landed on his feet but lost his balance, backwards, and WHACK! His head hit that raised metal platform hard. REALLY hard.
He almost immediately started screaming and holding the back of his head as he scrambled up. Kim and I ran over and when we pulled his hand back he was bleeding profusely. We rushed to the car and went over to the hospital as quickly as we could.
Holden is okay, but needed to get five stitches in the back of his head. Poor kid. His mom took him home last night and he was sound asleep from the drugs they gave him to keep him relatively calm during the application of the local anesthetic. Relatively meaning Kim and a nurse had to hold his arms and head down while the doctor used a needle to apply to drug to the site of the cut. I had taken the girls home to get some food so I got to miss out on that fun stuff *sarcasm*.
I need a day at work just to recover from the weekend now. Ah, quiet work.
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