3.5 year run is over

Ben got his first trip to the ER last night. For a couple years now I have been saying to Todd "Wow I can't believe we haven't been to the ER with him yet". Todd keeps telling me I am jinxing us. Well as of last night, we have been to the ER.

Ben was headed into the bathroom with a bit of "the crazy" in his eyes, as we like to call it. He pulled the door over the top of his big toe, taking the nail right along with it. It was only halfway pulled off and there was a good amount of blood. He wasn't really letting me touch it (can you blame him??) so I decided to take him into the ER and have it looked at in case they needed to do any repair or to cut off the nail.

Ben was a trooper!! He was understandably upset that we had to go to the hospital but was not hysterical. As soon as the first nurse asked him what had happened he started in on the ENTIRE STORY, not leaving out any little bit. That nurse didn't know what she was getting into with that question!

We got back into a treatment area and the nurses started working on cleaning it for him. If you have ever met my son, you know this kid can talk! OH WOW DID HE TALK. That nurse knew his entire life story. Including reviews of what he thought of the amenities at the hospital.

"We have nice big fuzzy blankets at our house but not like these ones you have here. These ones are little and scratchy."

The nurse told him that she had very special hospital apple juice and that it would go all the way to his toes and make it feel better. He drank some of the juice, looked at me, and said "Mommy it's not working it's only in my tummy." I told him to wait a few minutes maybe it took some time to work. So we talked about some other things then all of a sudden he said "MOMMY I feel it, I feel it, it's in my toes and it feels all better!"

Oh my.

On the way home in the cab he thanked me for taking him to fun places. I asked him what fun place I took him to that day, we had gone shopping and out to lunch earlier that afternoon. He looked at me like I lost my head.

"The Emergency Room!!"