Evan's Head

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Evan had a one-day tournament yesterday.  He didn't play until close to 5:30 and then right after that.  We didn't finish up until after 8pm.  But the big issue came around lunch time.  We told the boys they needed to clean up their rooms.  At that point, Evan walked towards his room.  I don't know exactly what happened but Evan walked head first into the wall.  The part he hit on the wall was basically a corner, where there is metal in the sheet rock to join two walls together.  I honestly don't know how long after he hit, I came around the corner and saw him on the floor.  I asked him what happened and that is when he started to cry and said he walked into the wall.  At first I was annoyed that he was messing around, but I looked at his head and it was already quite swollen and had a gash.  We got him ice and I gave him Advil and he sat on the couch.  Rachel looked at his eyes and I asked him lots of questions, all of which he got correct.

We still went to the tournament, but quickly in the first game, it was obvious that Evan was not feeling up to it.  He was moving very slow and he made many mental errors.  I don't know if he could concentrate that well.  He eventually told me he felt nauseous.

This morning, when I got him up he said his head hurt and he continued to feel nauseous.  So, begrudgingly, Rachel and I decided not to send him to school.  We just didn't know if he was exaggerating in an attempt to not go to school.  Rachel and I walked Noah to school and left Evan home alone with Lizzy.   A bit later, Evan fell asleep which was unusual.  So we decided to call the doctor.  They were able to fit him in so Rachel took him in.

The doctor did a number of physical and mental tests on Evan.  She told Rachel that she wasn't able to put down that it was a concussion but that she wanted Rachel to treat the symptoms like it was.  She didn't want Evan to go back to school today.  She said that he has to refrain from any physical activity until his symptoms go away.  He can't go to recess, he can't play baseball.  He can walk to school as long as we take it easy.  He is not allowed to play on the iPad or anything with a screen.  When he does go back to school, if he feels dizzy at all, he should tell the teacher and they should send him home to rest.

I picked up a smoothie for Evan at Smoothie King.  He ate it pretty well.  He hasn't seemed like he lost his appetite.  Just that he feels dizzy and nauseous.  Throughout the afternoon though, at times he'd seem like he was back to his old self.  When Noah came home from school, he was starting to get wild with Noah and I would have to put a stop to it.  Every so often he would tell me he felt dizzy but it seemed to be farther apart than earlier.  His mood definitely picked up.

Before Rachel left to tutor, Deborah came over and worked with Lizzy.  She put Lizzy on the treadmill to get some incline and slow walk work.

The boys and I played Monopoly together.  They both seemed to really understand the game and they told me how much change they'd need as they paid for stuff.  Evan did well mentally with it.  We stopped and had dinner.  I put the boys to bed just as Rachel got home from tutoring.

The boys are now in their bed and just about asleep.

Until next time...