Mavrick's 1st Trip to the ER...

So this weekend was a fun/scary one. My wonderful son just hit another "Right of Passage" by making it to the Emergency Room this weekend. Ahhh....some how I have a feeling this is not going to be the first time. Growing up I NEVER went to the hospital so I blame this on Ryan's side of the family. Haha. =)

It all started Saturday night when I left the baby with Ryan for a couple hours to go play some softball. I get a call at about 11:30 pm asking where the Insurance Card is. So of course 5,000 different questions and scenarios are going through my mind at that time. Ryan then perceives to  tell me that he thinks our son has swallowed some carpet nails/tacks and that he is taking him to the emergency room. Nice. I thought he was over the "eating everything in sight" stage but I guess not. But he is in the crawling onto chairs and tables stage so that is how he GOT the tacks in the first place. I got to the hospital and they had already taken him to get an x-ray by the time I got there. They said he had swallowed 5 nails but they were past his esophagus and into his stomach already which was good. But they still wanted to keep him over night or 14 hours to make sure they didn't puncture anything going down. 

Here is a picture of the nails he swallowed...small but pointy!

Mavrick was so tired and on top of that he couldn't eat anything. Just water. So he was really upset. In the examination room they took his blood and it was so sad. I started crying. He just was crying and looking at me like "WHY?" I felt so bad. Ryan was pretty upset too not that he would admit it. So it was about 4:00 am when they finally got us into his pediatric room where he gets a second wind. He was jumping on the bed and pulling the nurses stethoscopes and everything else you can imagine. The nurses kept saying "wow...is he always like this?" And we said 

"Yes. Well...whenever he is awake." haha. 

Here are a few pictures of him in the hospital. Sorry they are such poor quality. My phone camera was all that I had.

They put a little hospital gown on him. He was so cute! Haha.

His poor little hand. They had to put an IV in him just in case.

He was running around the pediatric hallways. The Nurses LOVED him. He would go back and forth from the nurses desk to fish tank they had. 

He got to watch all the Disney movies he wanted and drink all the apple juice he wanted. Haha. They finally released us around 1:00 pm on Sunday. What was kinda funny was that I was suppose to give a talk this past Sunday. HAHA! So I had a good excuse for not giving it. I am sure they were thinking..."Some people would do anything to get out of giving a talk." =)

So that was our ER adventure. I had no clue what to expect. The only time in my life I ever went to the hospital was when I gave birth to Mavrick so I was asking a ton of annoying questions the whole time. Oh well...I guess you learn as you go. We went home and all crashed for a good 4 hours. We weren't scared at all about the tacks puncturing him in anyway surprisingly. I just hated seeing him so upset and being held down. It broke my heart! I hope we don't have to go through that again.