My Brave Little Soldier

Yesterday at 5.30pm we had a call from the Nursery to say David had fallen and could we go and get him. So we went over to see what had happened. When I walked in, David was sat there, his mouth pouring with blood, he had tried to jump from a log stepping stone, onto another but misjudged his distance and landed on his face! His bottom lip was lacerated, but on further inspection his front right tooth was loose and had come down about 3mm from the root of the gum and the gum was blistered and bleeding, so I scooped him up in my arms and power walked home to the car ( I swear I did this in record time, I was in parent protect mode at this point, I did'nt even feel the weight of him in my arms...feeling that today, oh yeah lol )...anyway, took him straight to the A & E depertment, after a reasonable initial wait of 30 mins to see the duty nurse, we then had to wait to see the dental practitioner there...we were there from 6pm until 9.00pm....he has a ripped gumline on his top teeth, the doc is hopeful that it will heal over time and the tooth should solidify and come out when his other milk teeth do. Just got to hope it does'nt become infected as he will have to have the tooth out. Doc said the tooth will always be slightly longer than the other as they can't push the tooth back up into the gum, we just have to monitor that now....but the most amazing thing is...he's not even 4 yet....and....he did'nt cry, not once! I am so proud of him my little soldier! Feel awful when something like this happens, as theres not much you can do to help them. Makes me laugh when other people say - "Well it happens to all Parents"...to which I reply - "Yes, I understand that, but try and remember how YOU felt the first time it happened to your child..."

Anyway, thats the adventure we had yesterday..Proud, Proud, PROUD of my little man!

aawwww Rich, give him some big hugs! Brave little guy he is! Hugs to you too, I know how horrible that was for you to see him like that too. I hope he's feeling better very soon.

Aawwwww the wee soul! Big strong boy right enough!! I'd have cried!!!!!

What a nitemare for ya.

Now go have a soak in the bath for those muscles!

Well done to one brave little man, and one big brave daddy!

ah babe hope him and you feel better soon horrible isnt it i remember 3 weeks ago dominic was burnt on his hand and all his skin was peeling off it looked like a horror movie scene and he didnt cry either not once and he isnt 4 till the 23rd of this month it must be thier age
well he has made a full recovery apart from a red scar that should fade intime but will allways be slightly there and i hope all good happens with davids mouth
wishing u all the best little dude
xxx

awww bless him i bet u are very proud of him but there more to come,i havent gone through it yet but growin up with three brothers lol one of my brothers cut his ear off well half of it was hangin off dunno how it happened but it only happened in the livin room messin about i think,one of my other brother had a brick dropped on his finger gross.oh i stepped in a bee's nest it was horrible i had bees in my mouth,clothes ahhh but i was young lol and i remember i jumped over one of them long things in the street kids like to jump over BUT i was wearin a skirt not good i went forward and smashed my mouth in.anyways that was fun lookin back at the horrible times lol xxx

He is a brave wee soldier

Hope his mouth feels better soon Rich and give him a hig from me and Joseph

very brave little man
hope u feel better soon

Brave little man , but oww!I hope it heals quickly. I hope the nursery does something so this doesn't happen in the future!

Rich said:
Yesterday at 5.30pm we had a call from the Nursery to say David had fallen and could we go and get him. So we went over to see what had happened. When I walked in, David was sat there, his mouth pouring with blood, he had tried to jump from a log stepping stone, onto another but misjudged his distance and landed on his face! His bottom lip was lacerated, but on further inspection his front right tooth was loose and had come down about 3mm from the root of the gum and the gum was blistered and bleeding, so I scooped him up in my arms and power walked home to the car ( I swear I did this in record time, I was in parent protect mode at this point, I did'nt even feel the weight of him in my arms...feeling that today, oh yeah lol )...anyway, took him straight to the A & E depertment, after a reasonable initial wait of 30 mins to see the duty nurse, we then had to wait to see the dental practitioner there...we were there from 6pm until 9.00pm....he has a ripped gumline on his top teeth, the doc is hopeful that it will heal over time and the tooth should solidify and come out when his other milk teeth do. Just got to hope it does'nt become infected as he will have to have the tooth out. Doc said the tooth will always be slightly longer than the other as they can't push the tooth back up into the gum, we just have to monitor that now....but the most amazing thing is...he's not even 4 yet....and....he did'nt cry, not once! I am so proud of him my little soldier! Feel awful when something like this happens, as theres not much you can do to help them. Makes me laugh when other people say - "Well it happens to all Parents"...to which I reply - "Yes, I understand that, but try and remember how YOU felt the first time it happened to your child..."

Anyway, thats the adventure we had yesterday..Proud, Proud, PROUD of my little man!

aww hun poor david, the same thing happened to dec when he was 2 years and his tooth become lose and his gum was cut and the dentist said the same thing, and now his two front teeth are diff lengths too!

Aw poor David, but it is amazing how they bounce back! Hope he's feeling better today.