Coleman Joins the Ranks
Coleman apparently has been feeling left out and created his own medical "emergency". It wasn't ear tubes or hernia surgery. Let's see if you can guess. The injury is a first in our family, it isn't permanent (while it may feel like it), it required a quick look at a doctor's appointment, and he may be called 'sharp tooth' in the future.
Monday night, at VBS, he was having fun playing in his little class. In his silliness, he tripped over himself and his little mouth caught the little plastic toy bin just right. Three of his top four teeth were injured and one of the teeth went through his bottom lip and left a cut right above his chin. The top right middle tooth is chipped diagonally, the left middle tooth is pushed backward just a little, and the outside left tooth is pushed up into his little gum a little bit. Our pediatrician goes to our church and immediately looked at his mouth while Brad ran to the grocery store (across the street) to get pain reliever. He was crying pretty hard until we took him into another empty class and got a book that plays music. He was able to relax until the medicine kicked in. Then he pointed and asked for 'Goldfish'. I reluctantly gave him a bite assuming it would hurt. He learned with the first bite to push that cracker back to his ONE bottom molar and continued to eat. His sippy cup hurt his mouth too. Thankfully, we have one straw sippy cup.
I did take him to the dentist on Tuesday when I saw that 3 teeth were injured. Thankfully everything will be okay. He did get mad today when he tried to eat a poptart. He saw Catherine eating her's and wanted to hold his piece like her's. I, being the good mother I am, tried to tell him it would hurt but, of course, he doesn't understand. He refused the small bites that I offered him, so I gave him his own chunk even though I knew it would hurt him. He pitched a fit when he tried to take a bite. He was really mad that he couldn't eat it. It was entertaining. Thankfully, we were able to move on to strawberries and that seemed to be enough for breakfast.
