Aaron's Blog

Well, last evening turned out to be a horrible evening for Aaron. He was just about to have his nails clipped and get ready for bed when he slipped off the small training potty/foot stool in the bathroom and smashed his mouth into the cupboard door under the sink. He screamed like I had never heard him scream before and he was crying his eyes out. His mouth was pouring with blood and he was shaking badly. Once we managed to calm him down a bit, he spat out A LOT of blood from his mouth and we managed to see that he has split his lip badly, but not too deeply thank goodness, but he had also bashed his right fang tooth next to his front two teeth so that it had turned 90 degrees in his mouth. This was mainly where the blood was pouring from. Kelly immediately rang the NHS Direct line and they advised to take him in to A&E to be checked out as they class this sort of thing as a possible head injury. Unfortunately, this made Aaron worse as he hates going to the hospital, probably because when he was little he had an extremely bad case of Croup and they had to force steroids and Calpol down him to open his lungs, which was a very bad experience for him.  So Kelly took him to the hospital and about 4 hours (!) later, they came home, which I think was about 23:30. They had seen a nurse and a doctor who basically said that it isn’t really bad and that the gash in his lip should heal without stitches and his tooth is pretty secure but he may have damaged the veins providing it with blood, so it may go black and drop out. Aaron seemed much better when he got home and showed me a ‘being brave’ sticker that the Doctor had given him.  As you can imagine, he was tired out, but he managed a biscuit and a drink before going to bed. He is staying home today as the poor little chap is tired out still! We are just relieved it is over and not any worse than it is but the poor little boy will be struggling with his lip for a while and it will take several days for hit tooth to stop hurting and settle down. Aaron was very brave though! xx