A Parents Worst Nightmare

We actually had a huge scare with Zack a couple of weeks ago. It was the evening and I was arriving home from work. I walked in through the garage, and I heard Zack yelling to me from the stoop above as I began walking up the stairs to come onto the main floor. Suddenly I saw something fall from above onto the steps in front of me and my first thought was that Zack had thrown a doll down to me....and then I immediately realized that it was him. He must have been playing on the railing above and had slipped and fallen about 10 feet from above me onto his head on the wooden stairs with very little padding from a border rug that covered them!!!!

I dropped everything and grabbed him so that he wouldn't fall further down the stairs -- yelled for Jeff who dashed down, scooped him up and brought him upstairs to see how he was. I was freaking. Oh my god, is he alright?

Jeff was checking him all over for any broken bones, asking him if anything hurt, did he know his name, how many fingers were we holding up, who were we etc... But no bump began to form on his head from the fall and I began thinking that he had experienced some internal injuries -- like Natasha Richardson!!!

Once we assessed that he seemed to understand who he was, where he was, etc...I called the doctor to find out what I should be looking for in case there is a concussion.

The doctor was very nice and shared with me that we needed to watch him for three days because symptoms may not appear right away. If he was sluggish, not acting like himself, wanting to lay on the couch and his head continued to hurt him over the next couple of days she recommended that I bring him in. Also, she wanted us to go in and check on him a couple times throughout the night to see that he wasn't in a really deep sleep. We should touch him feet and see that he responds. Not to wake him up but to see that he is conscious on some level, which we did.

We are so lucky! Besides having a headache for a day (because he took a tremendous fall onto his head) and laying on the couch for a little while afterwards, later that night he was up playing and appeared to be fine!

Let's just say that I was holding my breathe for a day or so until we saw that he was fine! I totally believe that the toddler angels were watching over him and took care that he was alright!