A great day turned hideously bad

I am working on Tuesdays and Thursdays this year.  On Tuesdays Michael and Spencer are home together.  I've been going to work at 7 so I can be done at 3 and home by 3:30.  It gives us a long afternoon/evening to just hang out and chill as a family.

Yesterday was a great day.  Spencer was playing, Michael and I were chatting and reading magazines and we were all just generally enjoying each other's company.

Spencer wanted to play in his Mickey Mouse Halloween costume.

Until he decided, after 2 minutes, that it was too hot.  Then he just played with his Mickey plane.

Then he invented a new game called "lay on the back of the couch and fall on to mom's lap".

After doing this for a while we ate dinner.

After dinner Spencer attached a balloon to his train, and then was riding his train around the house begging us to catch him.

So we both started chasing him in the circle around the kitchen island.

Michael took the balloon off the train and was using it as a tail.  Spencer thought that was pretty great so he took the tail, ditched the train and also started running.  He also put on his play safety goggles.  He wears these about 75% of the day when we're hanging out at home.

Ginger even got in on the action and ran a couple circles with us.

Sometimes Spencer would chase us, sometimes we would chase him.  Sometimes it was unclear who was chasing who since it was one big circle.

I had to take periodic breaks in the name of picture taking.  Also, I'm getting a big belly and running is hard.  Also, I was really hot and out of breath.

There was some chasing through the tent and tunnel.

We were all laughing so hard and having such a great time.  It was one of those really fun for no reason at all nights.

Then it all turned hideously bad.

My mom called and I went into the baby's room (the coolest room in the house) to talk to her.  Michael and Spencer kept chasing each other for a while.  Then they stopped.  Then Spencer, still wearing the goggles, came running down the hallway looking for me.  Right before he got to the room he slipped and fell face first into the floor.

Had he not been wearing the goggles he would have been fine.  Probably not even a bump.

The "safety" goggles, however, smashed into his face, sliced open his nose and bruised his forehead and under his eyes.

This is moments after the accident.

Yes, I did take this picture.  Does that make me a horrible mom?

We live 1 mile from an urgent care and 1 mile from a hospital.  The gash on his nose only bled for maybe 30 seconds, so we drove to urgent care first.  Urgent Care wanted nothing to do with him, based soley on his age.  So, we bypassed the 1 mile away hospital and drove 10 miles to a pediatric ER.  

We waited 30 minutes to be seen in triage.  The triage nurse assured us that we did the right thing by coming in, but sent us back to the waiting room until a room opened up.  That took 20 more minutes.

The nurse gave Spencer some motrin for pain and also poured some anesthetic gel all over his nose.  Then she bandaged it to keep the gel from running all over his face and in his eyes.

Thank god there was a TV in the room, because this is what Spencer did for 2+ hours.

After the nurse checked him a Physician Assistant checked him, then the ER doctor checked him.

It was determined that he didn't need stitches, just dermabond (medical super glue).  They are fairly certain that he didn't break his nose or any facial bones, but they can't be positive without an X-ray, which they didn't think was necessary.  We got a referral to a pediatric plastic surgeon if we think his nose looks strange or he has trouble breathing after the swelling goes down.

4 hours and a $125 co-pay later we were on our way back home.  As we walked out, at 11 pm, I noticed that most of the kids still waiting in the rooms were asleep on the beds.  These were the kids who had been waiting in the waiting room with us.  Not Spencer. He, of course, wanted to run down the hallway as we left.

We let him sleep in our room last night.  We put him in bed at 11:30.  We went to bed at 12:00.  He was still awake. 

Major facial trauma, a 4 hour ER visit and close to 4 hours past his bed time doesn't phase this kid one bit.

It's now 10:17 am.  Spencer is still sleeping.  I'm going to let him sleep until he wakes up on his own.  Then I'm going to let him decide if he wants to go to school today or not.

I'll come back later and post a "day after"  picture.

Update:

Spencer went to school today.  He did great.  His teacher said that during circle time (like 30 minutes into the day) a kid fell on top of Spencer.  The teacher and aid were freaking out but Spencer was just fine.

Here he is 19 hours later: