Broken Nose

List night I thought Connor had broken his nose!  He was doing a lap of the lounge room, at pace, in excitement of his imminent bottle and bed time ritual, when he slipped over and fell on his face.  Much screaming and hysteria ensued.  Normally he is actually very good when he hurts himself, so if he get really upset we know he's really hurt himself and take it seriously.  Nothing Andrew did could calm him so mummy took over and finally managed to get him into bed curled up with his blanket.

Note stripe across his nose.

30min later his started crying hysterically again.  Not being able to calm him we bought him back out to the lounge room, gave him some Panadol and after about 40min put him back to bed.  Less than an hour later he was crying hysterically again.

We finally decided we had to get serious and broke out the Pain Stop.  Neither Andrew or I like to medicate and this stuff is pretty full on.  We got it to calm Connor enough to fly home from holidays on the plane last year (he had a panic attack on the flight up and was hysterically trying to get out into the aisle and get out of the plane in flight).  It works a treat in calming him and puts him to sleep, but it's not something you would use regularly (I've heard rumours about parents who do though).  Thankfully it worked and he finally went to sleep and stayed asleep.

This morning I woke up and fearfully went into his room, wondering if I was going to see a black and blue nose and need to go to emergency.  Thankfully it looks like a bruise that goes across his nose is the only sign of the fall.  This kid is taking years off my life!  :)