On Monday
Oly and
Jonny were playing on our bed together.
Oly did a
somersault towards
Jonny, misjudged the distance and ended up kicking him in the head. This pushed
Jonny backwards, making the back of his head hit the wall. He cried for a couple of minutes and then stopped. We thought that he was fine, got into our car and headed towards the beach. Once we got to the beach, we got
Jonny out of his car seat and started to walk towards the water. I noticed that
Jonny fell, and thought he had tripped on a rock. I picked him up, and he fell again. After a minute we noticed that something was wrong with
Jonny. He couldn't keep his balance and was falling whenever he tried to walk. I started to freak out, and we headed for the emergency room. We called our doctor on the way down, and she told us to go the
Kapiolani (I wasn't going to go to
Wahiawa anyways.) Once we got to
Kapiolani hospital it had been a couple of hours since he had hit his head. The doctor looked at
Jonny and thought that he was looking pretty good. He was walking better, and was pretty happy. I could tell that he was walking different than normal, but the doctor said that he should keep on doing better as time went on. So we went home and I thought that everything was fine. The next morning,
Jonny woke up pretty late. Once he got up, I put him down to see how he was walking. He couldn't even take a step. He could barely even keep his balance to stand. I started to freak out again, and called my doctor. She decided that he should get a MRI done to be safe and scheduled him for a appointment that afternoon. As the day wore on he slowly started to walk better. By the time it was time for his MRI, he was walking almost normal. I could still tell that he wasn't one-hundred percent normal though. He was stumbling quite a bit.
Oly took off work early and we took him to his
appointment at
Kapiolani again. Once we got to the hospital we we took him to get sedated. Because the MRI takes so long, they have to sedate small children so they will hold still for the test. I was really nervous to see him get sedated. I was glad that
Oly was with me. The anesthesiologist told me that they were going to be giving him the same drug that killed Michael Jackson. I really wish that he had left that part out, it was not very comforting at all! Anyways, he told me that he was going to be administering it with another drug to numb the pain because it really burns when they put it in your vein. He had little marks to show how much he was going to be giving him at a time. I was
holding Jonny when he started to put the drugs into this veins. I had no idea that I was going to be holding him while they did this, and within a couple of seconds felt him go limp. I put him onto the bed and he woke up! They kept on putting more and more of the drug into him and we woke up like five times. I kept on worrying that he was in pain because they only put the numbing drug in with the first injection. Anyways, they were on their way up to the MRI room and
Jonny woke up again! He was trying to sit up, and had tape over his eyes, a oxygen mask on and all of these wires coming off of him. I felt so bad he started to cry for me. The doctor looked at his arm and realized that the whole time they had been injecting the drug, the IV had not been placed correctly into his vein. I looked and saw a huge bump underneath his arm where the drug has pooled up underneath his skin. They went to his other arm and stated a new IV and started to put more of the drug in to quickly put him back to sleep. I was crying, because I was so scared for him. I was worried that they had put too much of the drug into him. (They told me one side effect of the drug was apnea if it is given in a
high dose.) They assured me that he would be fine, and took him in for his MRI. The rest of the story is a lot better. The results came back normal from the MRI. They think he just had a concussion on the back part of his brain, which is where our balance is. We were able to take him home right afterwards and today he is walking completely normal. I am so glad that it is all over and that
Jonny is
ok. It was pretty crazy!