So I wake up at 6:30am Tuesday morning to Connor crying. Not typical, but he’s been sick.
I find him with a bloody nose… again, not typical, but he’s been sick.
I lay him down on my bed, stop the nosebleed, and help him settle down. He lays on my bed for 30 minutes sleeping on and off and fussing the rest of the time. He asks for juice. We give him juice. I offer him a pop-tart and he ate it. He even gobbled down yogurt that I fed to him.
The only odd thing about it is… the kid won’t open his eyes. In fact, he refuses to open his eyes.
He fusses. He cries. He begs to be held. And the entire time he won’t open his eyes.
After two hours, he falls asleep on the couch.
I call the doctor.
The doctor finds this odd and asks me to call him back if it continues after he wakes up.
Two hours later Connor wakes up. He’s still doing it.
I ask him to open his eyes. He cries.
I attempt to put clothes on him and he screams. He fights with every attempt to dress him… his eyes closed the entire time!
He acts as if he’s uncomfortable but can’t tell me what it is.
The doctor finds this odd and recommends I take him to the ER.
Kyle meets me there. He holds Connor for 5 minutes. He tells Connor, “If you open your eyes, I’ll take you to see the fish.”
Connor opens his eyes. Then he plays in the triage room as we explain to the nurse, “This is NOT how he was acting.”
Was I duped by a 2 year old?
Flashbacks of Ferris Bueller race through my head.
No wonder I’m on happy meds.
February 26th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
I’m so sorry, but I am laughing my rear off right now. God bless mommies of toddlers everywhere.
=)
February 26th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Kids…that story would sound crazy if you don’t have at least one kid.
B/4 kids you are in Wall-mart and you stare at the parent with “that kid” you know the one freaking out. 3 years later you are “that parent” with “that kid”.
Somethings you can understand by reading about them. Like thermodynamics, others have to be experienced like toddlers. Great story thanks for making all of us parents of toddlers feel “normal”.
February 27th, 2008 at 12:33 am
HA! Chandler has done that sort of thing, those nurses are always willing to see what he comes up with. Usually is heavily tainted food that was NOT supposed to be made with nuts, but somehow were giving hugs by another nut infested cookies and caught the disease. I feel you sister!! (but seriously haha!)
February 27th, 2008 at 8:06 am
That kid has some crazy strong resolve to keep his eyes closed that long. I’m impressed.
February 27th, 2008 at 10:30 am
…at least you saved your ER copay…:)
February 27th, 2008 at 11:05 am
I never want to be mean but every time one of my boys does something like that I give them the, “if you keep this up we are going to have to go and get a big shot.” That usually stops it cold. I hope Connor is Ok, gotta love the ER
February 27th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
That is too cute! Sorry you had to make the trip to the ER. Kids are amazing.
February 27th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
You guys are funny! I am thankful for your comments and that you can commiserate with me as a parent!
For the record, Connor did the same thing this morning. Took him to see his doctor. He’s got the flu. The doctors explanation for the ‘eye’ thing… “Kids do wierd things when they’re sick.”
To quote my friend, Cathi, “And that little gem was worth $150, wasn’t it?”
February 27th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
looking at this from the other side of parenting….oh yeah baby, laughing hard!!!
don’t you just love that feeling that they really are smarter than you and somehow God has reversed our roles?
hang in there, before you blink, Connor will be calling you because his kid is doing it to him!!!
February 28th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Kid are the best, they give me duh moments daily. Great story, the role would be reversed on my part. Mommy would be the one to say let’s look at the fish and I can only scratch my head and think to myself “sucker.” Then if there’s a next time my child could be dying and i would not take him to the Dr. and mom would school me again and take sweet child of mine to the doctor and look at me like are you stupid.
February 28th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Oh I can so relate!! the best was the reverse with my oldest—always feeling “sick” before school so I kept sending him and when he got to school, went to the nurse, he was fine. After finally convincing the teachers/nurse that he really was ok–I got a phone call from the sub nurse saying he wasn’t feeling well. I let out a big sigh and started in on the story of yes, I know, he’ll be fine, send him to class, etc—the nurse listens to the whole story and simply said, “yes, I have that on his record—but this time he has 103 fever and vomited all over my office”. Oops—I’ll be right there
kids….