Head banging

Grace and Daniel have both ended up with split foreheads this year - not at the same time, as if that makes it any better.
Daniel fell first. We were in the park on Jan 2nd and I was talking to a girl I knew about how he makes my heart go cross ways when I see him on the slide. He was climbing the steps for the slide as I spoke and managed to tumble off the bottom step and hit his head on the corner of the step. I'm not sure whether he or I was more hysterical. We went to the car and I cleaned the blood from the half inch long wound to see how bad it was. I rang Elayne to say I was on my way (where else would you go except to your sister, in a crisis???) Anyway the bleeding stopped fairly rapidly. He didn't lose consciousness or seem drowsy so I didn't take him to the hospital. I should have, but I was in shock. He was fine, thank God and only has a small scar to show for his troubles. We are rubbing bio oil on it to make it fade as much as possible.

Grace fell on April 7th at creche. She was running, slipped and banged her hear off the corner of a door. One of the minders rang me and said she had a small accident and they were taking her to a doctor in the same complex as the creche. I could hear her screaming in the backround. I shouted to my boss that I had to leave and then raced out the door. I don't know how I obeyed the rules of the road. When I got to the doctors Grace was outside with the lady from creche. the doctor said Grace's wound was too deep for him to stitch so I took her to St John's hospital. She ended up getting an inch long gash in her forehead glued and then held with paper stitches. She was frighted but very brave. She's getting the bio oil treatment now too, so hopefully it will work as well for her as it did for Daniel. Thank God this is the worst accident that either of them has had, and hopefully this will be the worst that happens to them. I don't think my heart could take it.