TJ Visits the ER

Last night TJ took his first trip to the emergency room. Something tells me it certainly won’t be his last. It was a little after 7pm and he was playing in Jessica’s room with Jess and Sue. He was standing on the chair acting like a monkey as he usually does and he fell off. Now this is far from the first time he has fallen off that chair but something was different this time. Sue said she didn’t see him hit his face on anything so it must have just been the floor that caused all the blood. As we would find out later from the ER doctor, he tore the upper labial frenum, which is that little piece of skin that attaches the top lip to your gums.

The bleeding wouldn’t stop for 20 minutes so Sue called the doctor and he said go to the hospital. So we were off to Saint Clare’s in Denville. Jessica was very upset about all this because she was very worried about her little brother. Once we gave her some peanut butter cups, the crying stopped.

On the way to the hospital, the bleeding stopped, of course. But it did start again when we were in the ER. After about 90 minutes of waiting, the doctor takes a look and tells us this is very common and there is nothing to do for it. Just give him soft food for a day or two and it will heal. I wish the doctor could have told us that on the phone but better safe than sorry.

TJ was fine and happy this morning at school eating his waffle and being the happy little boy he is. And I’m sure tonight he’ll be right back in Jessica’s room climbing on the chair!