You Should See The Other Guy

Whew! What a night! Tonight was a fundraiser for Noah's preschool at Chick-fil-a. 10% of all the proceeds between the hours of 5 and 8 went to help fix the playground at the school. Noah and I were planning on getting there around 5:45 to meet up with some of our friends who were going too. We were over in that area of town around 4 and had some time to kill before heading to dinner so I offered to take Noah to Monkey Joe's so he could get some energy out. He had been a trooper all day running errands with me where he had to "sit still" for most of the time so I knew Monkey Joe's would be a good idea. And it was! There was only one other boy in the entire place and Noah and the boy were playing together. They were running, climbing, running, sweating, jumping, running, did i mention running? They asked me to play hide and seek with them so I was "pretending" not to see them while they hid on all the inflatables. After an hour of that, it was finally time to go. Noah had just told me he was "STARVING". He asked for "just one more time hiding" so of course I agreed. Man, I wish I hadn't. It was in the last time hiding that Noah and his little friend (probably 2 or 3 years old than Noah) were hiding on one of the inflatables. They were both at the top of the slide. The boy came down the slide and I "found him". He quickly, with full force and speed, tried to run UP the slide not realizing at that moment Noah was sliding DOWN it. BAM!!! The boy's head went right into Noah's face. Immediately Noah let out a scream that I knew meant business. He was holding his eye but when he turned my way, there was blood streaming out of his nose. We ran to the bathroom to get some tissues and I realized his mouth was bleeding too. I was afraid he bit his tongue. I told him to take his hand away from his eye so he could help me hold the tissue on his nose and when he removed his hand he uncovered where his eye was hit. HOLY COW. His eye was so swollen that it was totally swollen shut!! I was freaking out. It was bad. I just scooped him up and literally ran to the car. I called Allen first and then my friend Beth to tell her we weren't going to make it to dinner. She was very supportive and helpful in calming me down while i was driving to the ER. Noah was still screaming so that wasn't helping things. We got to the ER and saw a sign that said it was at least an hour wait. They asked what happened and when I told them, we were in the ER room in less than 3 minutes. They were afraid Noah had a concussion, a broken nose, and eye damage. They did some tests and stuck some things up Noah's nose and luckily he does not have a broken nose. He will have a pretty nasty black eye but there is no damage to the eye. They are also pretty sure he doesn't have a concussion but i still have to wake him every 2 hours tonight to be sure. We had to keep him awake until after 10pm tonight which was actually quite difficult for such a tired boy. Whew, what a night!!!

It makes me so sad to see Noah hurt and in pain but Noah thinks it is really funny that I taught him to answer when people ask him what happened to say "you should see the other guy".