Parents of the Year

Yesterday Dan and I were getting ready to run a few errands. We were both in our room and I set Cam in the middle of our bed. I was watching him, and he kept just sitting in the middle of the bed. I turned for literally one second to hand Dan a rubberband, and as I turned back, I watched Cam fall off my bed out of the corner of my eye. It happened faster than Dan and I could blink! My heart stopped. I think that the medical training in me took over- I just stayed as calm as possible and tried to calm Cam down. He cried for 30 minutes, and would not calm down. Dan and I got worried when he vomited, so we took him to Primary Children's ER at Riverton Hospital.
He vomited again while in the ER, and the doctors told us he was an intermediate risk for head trauma. At this point do we do a CT scan or not? The doctor told us there was a study that has shown doing CT scans in babies puts them at risk for 1 in 1000 to develop cancer when they are old. That is a relatively large risk when you account for the study including 40,000 children. A CT scan has the radiation equivalent of 500 chest xrays.
The plan became to observe him for 3 hours and an extra hour after drinking some juice to make sure he showed steady improvement and didn't vomit anymore.
Thank heavens! After 4 hours of observation from a 3 foot fall head first off my bed onto our hardwood floor, Cam is bruised but alright!!!!

Right after it happened. He was not happy about me holding an ice pack on there

On the way to the hospital-look how huge it bulges out!

Grouchy but doing good under observation

Trying to make the wait bearable...

 After motrin and tylenol, and ice, and sleep, today he is much better- bruised but much better. Still a bit grumpy, but thank heavens nothing to worry about!