A little scary.
December 17, 2006The church service was just beginning. Our star soprano was just beginning her solo when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around to see a friend motioning me to come. I hesitated not wanting to jump up during Leslie’s solo and not wanting to crawl across the older couple seated next to us.
“Is everything OK?” I stupidly mouthed to the friend who had come to get me. Why else would somebody be summoning me at that moment.
“It’s Andrew,” he mouthed. At the back of the sanctuary, he said that Andrew was having a nose bleed and wouldn’t stop crying.
I hurried to nursery to find him sitting in one of the caregiver’s laps as she tried to hold his nose to stop the bleeding. I plopped down on the floor and scooped in him up in my arms. He settled against my chest immediately and stopped crying. The bleeding slowed. He was OK.
He’s prone to nose bleeds and has had several in the last week. It’s a little scary to see that much blood coming out of your little one. That one was probably worse than usual because he wasn’t easily consoled since we weren’t there. But nose bleeds in little guys are rarely indicative of anything serious.
He’s got a check-up coming up, so we’ll mention it to the doc again.
Meanwhile, Daniel was really pissy today. Time-outs galore. I’m hoping he’ll sleep it off tonight.
My older brother used to get a lot of nose bleeds when we were kids, he still gets more than I think is normal, but like you said, it’s nothing serious. Still must suck to see all that blood though.
Comment by Sarah — December 17, 2006 @ 11:56 pm
Thanks, Sarah. Yeah, I think it just freaked out the caregivers b/c they said there was blood everywhere. They had cleaned up some of it by the time I got there. They aren’t used to it, so they freaked out and them freaking out was freaking me out b/c who knows, maybe there really is something wrong. But we’ve been talking to the doc all along and have had some testing done and everything seems OK. I think some kids are just prone to them and may have bigger vessels close to the surface inside their nose that get more easily knicked or dried out or something.
Comment by Administrator — December 18, 2006 @ 4:43 pm
Yikes! That would have freaked me out. Glad he was okay once you got there. Hopefully it’s due to dry air! And now, a note from my DD: SOPHIA.
Comment by Cynthia — December 18, 2006 @ 7:31 pm