So my little man Kobe who is now 6 was ridding bikes with his dad and big sister Ellie yesterday. They had gone to the local store to get a treat. On the way home there is a very big hill that you can ride home on or take the long way without the hill. Well they chose to ride down the big hill....thought it would be great fun. Kobe starts down the hill and Ellie notices that he is going very fast. She tells him to slow down, and he answers "what?" Ellie starts to tell him to slow.... and he crashes. Sherise calls me about 3:00 and tells me to meet them @ Mckay Dee Hospital, that Kobe has been hurt. Long story short I get the the Hospital and the Dr. said that we should just watch him for a concussion and that he looks ok. He has to get stitches in his forehead, and we are waiting for the medicine to numb it, and he starts to throw up. Well at that point the Dr. and us start to worry. He is complaining that his tummy hurts and the Dr. asks how fast they were going, maybe some internal injury. Well they stitch up his forehead and he takes 2 internal stitches and 5 external stitches. They schedule a CT scan to make sure nothing is wrong internally. We wait for that and he is very tired. The Dr. say to let him sleep, it will be easier to do the CT on his head. He wakes up right before the CT and is a little scared until he sees me and then he is ok. They take the scan of him head and also his tummy. Everything comes back ok. We get to go home, and our little Kobe only had 7 stitches and some bumps a scrapes. The Dr. even tells him that he is the best patient he has had all day. The Dr. is very impressed at how gooe he is and Kobe even gets to see the needle that the Dr. is using to stitch him up. Needless to say Richard learned his lesson about helmet and will be more careful. You are such a brave little boy and what an traumatic experience to go through.
