Trip to the ER

On Thursday night we a bit of a scare with Bree. Thursday night Chris is in school so it is just me and the girls. I was in the play room getting something for the girls when all of the sudden I hear a loud thump and Bree start crying, but not just any cry I knew it was a hurt cry. When I went into the room I saw her just standing there crying. Katie told me that she fell out of the recliner she was sitting and hit her head on our end table. I was holding Bree and trying to check out her head. About 10 minutes or so after she hit her head she just started zoning out on me. She wouldn't talk or try to get up and walk. She would just look around but her eyes were very glazed over. I initially thought she was just a little shook up from the fall so I took her and Katie both to give them a bath. The whole time Bree was in the bath tub she kept trying to lay down in the water and not wanting to play. I got her and Katie out of the bath tub, got them dressed and tried to get Bree to eat or drink something. Bree loves bananas and has never turned one down but that night she wanted nothing to do with it. She still had the glazed looked in her eyes was kept putting her head on my shoulder and since an hour had past since she feel I decided to call our Ped. The nurse called me back and told me to bring her straight to the ER to have them do a CT Scan. They were worried she might have hit her head hard enough for her brain to start swelling. Well, once she said that my heart went into panic mode but I knew in my mind I had to stay calm for not only me but Katie and Bree. I quickly got them in the car, texted Chris to meet up as the ER and we were off. Once we got there the doctor checked her out and said that everything so far looked good but because she is so little he wanted to do the CT Scan to be on the safe side. I wasn't looking foward to this only because I knew that would have to restrain her to do the test, but we had to do it. They took us to the room and I laid her down on the bed and she immediately started crying so hard that her face was blood red. They wrapped her up like a little burrito and then strapped her head down. It was all I could do not to cry but I didn't want her to see me crying so I just stayed by her side and kept talking to her. But thankfully when the test started the sounds of the machine and the voice of the lady talking to her over the speaker keep her interested in what was going on. She didn't cry much after the test started and it only took about 3 minutes for them to do the scan. The lady doing the test keep telling Bree she was ridding a Choo Choo Train when the bed would back and forth in the machine. I told my Mom that Bree is going to never step on another ride that is called a Choo Choo Train for the rest of her live after that experience. By the end of the night her CT Scan came back clear which we were very thankful. The doctor said that sometime hard knocks to little ones heads like that can just make them confused and they will act funny, but it is alway good to get them checked out because you never know with head injuries. It made me feel much better to know she was going to be fine. We got home around 11pm and the girls were ready for bed and so was I. By the next day Bree was back to her normal self as if nothing happened.