Yesterday....

Is it morning all ready.???

I didn't sleep very good last night.  I think I was just dozing.  Listening for any sound from Adam.  His room is across the landing from ours, but next door to Laura's, so one of us would have heard him.

He is still asleep anyway.  That will have done him the world of good. 

 

Yesterday started so good, but by late afternoon was full of if onlys.!  If only we had gone to Wales like we were going to.!!  If only the phone hadn't rung when it did.!!!  If only we had started cooking those chocolate coins we were going to make.!!!!  If only we hadn't made those paper aeroplanes.!!!!!If only.  If only.  If only.  I could go on all day.  At the end of the day, we left him alone with an open fire. 'Nough said.

 

I decided not to go out yesterday.  The house is so untidy, I thought it would be a good idea to spend the day cleaning up.

I did start to catch up on my alerts yesterday morning.  Adam was making aeroplanes.  The weather was lovely.  The rain had stopped.  It was sunny.  I thought we might be able to get out on the bikes later.  Ade was here.  Good food.  We were gonna have a nice lazy day.  It didn't happen.

 

We only really light the log fire when there is someone to sit and watch it, which is what we were doing.   It has a habit of spitting bits out and burning the carpet, plus it goes out very quickly if you don't watch it, so you need someone to keep throwing logs on it. We have a fire guard around it, which was still in place after the accident, so we don't really know how it happened.

 

The phone rang.  I ran upstairs to use the decent phone.  The ones downstairs don't have a very good signal.  It was another booking.  Keith followed me to see what they needed. 

Adam came into the bedroom, no screaming, no shouting.  Just said his aeroplane had flown in to the fire and flown back out and had burnt his hand. 

I sort of shoved him into the bathroom, ran the cold tap on to his hand. He said the aeroplane was still on fire on the carpet.  I told him to keep his hand under the cold water and then I quickly ran downstairs to check that the house wasn't on fire.  Nothing.

At this stage his hand didn't look too bad.  Obviously we could see it was a hospital job.  He had lost quite a few layers of skin of his index finger on his right hand,  and there was the beginning of a blister on his ring finger.  By now Laura and Ade were up.  Laura stayed with Adam while I quickly got dressed, collected coats and shoes.  Keith went to bring the car round to the front of the house.

We wrapped Adams hand in a wet towel, and took a bottle of water with us to keep pouring on it as we drove.  It's a half hour drive to the A&E.  It was the longest time you can imagine.

Adam still wasn't crying.  I think he must have been in shock.

When we got to the hospital and saw the triage nurse, and we took the towel off.  I was in shock.  His whole hand was burnt. All of his fingers were blistered, His whole hand was the colour of a tomato.

The nurse gave him some pain relief straight away. She ran cold water into the sink, got a wheelchair and had him sit there with his hand in the water while she took details.

And then we waited, and waited, and waited.

Adam still wasn't crying.  He was worried that they would keep him in overnight.

When we did see the doctor, she didn't believe our story, she kept coming back to ask Adam how it happened, so maybe we might get a visit from child protection services.  I know they have to be careful.

To be quite honest we know it couldn't have happened how Adam said it did.  The fire guard was still in place.  We think his plane did go into the fire, but we think he reached over the guard to rescue it. That's when he got burned.  He put his hand into the fire.  We did ask him, but he got upset, so we just left it.  It's done now.

Anyway the doctor told him to keep his hand out of the water so that it would dry a bit before they dressed it.

Then Adam started crying, screaming, jumping up and down.  His hand must have still been burning, the blistering was still coming up.

We still had to wait half an hour, and to be honest I think if Adam hadn't been screaming we would have been longer.

They gave him some more pain relief, and smothered his hand in Flamazine, and dressed it in Bactigra, melonin, and double wrapped it in bandages.

Adam was still screaming when we came out of the hospital.  He did sleep for a little while on the way home.

We spent most of the rest of the day just cuddled up under a sleeping bag on the settee together.

There is nothing wrong with his appetite.

 

The doctor was a bit worried about it becoming infected, and skin damage over his knuckles, so we just have to wait and see.

He has to return to the hospital on Monday afternoon to be reviewed.  I hope it will be looking much better by then. 

 

So that's what happened yesterday.

I better go and make a start on the washing and ironing, and maybe get a bit of housework done.  It will depend on how Adam is when he wakes.

Right, a cup of tea first I think. :)

 

Thank you for all your best wishes and for keeping Adam in your prayers. You don't know how much that means to me. You are the best. I am indeed Blessed. Thank you.

 

Carolxx