The Rocking Horse Incident

When Jimmy was 3 years old, he thought it would be totally cool to ride a rocking horse down a flight of steps! That little feat didn't end quite like he wanted it to. After we heard the blood curdling scream, we ran to Jimmy who had a huge knot on his head and a hell of a shiner.  I suggested a hospital to Rob, who reminded me that the doctor told us that we only needed to take him to the emergency room if vomiting was involved. No sooner than the words came out of his mouth, Jimmy started puking!!!  So Rob took him to Bethesda North Hospital instead of Children's because I remembered that a friend of mine said Children's Emergency room had been pretty packed lately. I figured if Bethesda thought he needed to be at Children's and they sent him via ambulance he would be seen quicker and that is exactly how it shook out.

I rode in the ambulance with Jimmy, I remember it was St. Patty's Day because the medic was wearing a little green hat.  They strapped Jimmy into a gurney and about 10 minutes into the ride, he had the gurney straps undone and was trying to get into some of the supplies! What a trooper. We spent about 4 hours in the emergency room with Jimmy who was so aggravated because they had the pulse rate monitor on the thumb he wanted to suck.  Sydney wouldn't look straight at him for a week because she couldn't stand seeing his black eye!