10 August 2007
More mobility equals more accidents
I have to really switch mummy's hawks eyes on these days - something I'm not used to at all. Now that Yannick can walk he all of a sudden is also a lot more adventurous and enjoys climbing and exploring unknown areas. Two things happened already that gave me palpitations.
In the garden I was cutting some plants and Yannick was toddling about, like he did many times before. He was right next to me when he suddenly started screaming and all I could see was a bloody big toe and a stone the size of his foot next to it. I am not sure what exactly happened. At first I thought he let the stone fall onto his foot, but in that case I would expect the toe to go blue and green, which it didn't. It's far more likely that Yannick actually stubbed his foot on the stone or the big green storage box that he was walking around and caught his little toe nail on it. Ouch! On closer inspection under running water in the kitchen we saw that a third of the toe nail had come loose, but not totally off. Ouch, ouch, ouch!!! Yannick in his terror was trying to touch it and managed to fold it over, argh! So we folded the nail back, put something around the foot and took of for casualty, just in case. It was very empty there, thank goodness. They told us that the toe looked fine and that we should just keep it covered. The loose nail part will of course come off over the next week or so. Phew. I am just grateful that this happened with Frank in the house and the car being available. I am not sure how I would have managed without all of that.
The very day after I took him to a soft play area (foot covered up in sock obviously). There was a short course you could follow to get to some slides on the upper level. Yannick got lost and took the wrong turn, so I followed him up, only to see his head disappear through a hole in the padded floor and his feet follow immediately after. I was quite shocked to be honest and let out a little scream. About two seconds later I was at the hole and saw Yannick lying on his back on some kind of padded column, that was about 60 cm below the hole to climb down on. He looked completely befuddled. As he was slowly sliding sideways I grabbed him and allowed him to get down from the column top to the lower area (another 60 cm or so) that was packed with more padded cubes and other things. Nothing much could have happened to him there, but it was still quite frightening as I simply didn't know about that hole.