Today Max fell off a swing at Ehling’s
Park and hit his face on the hard dirt underneath. There was a stick on the ground
that he might have hit (or the swing came back and hit him, nobody actually saw him
fall). When his screams of pain brought Mom over to him, she saw that he had blood
mixed in with his tears coming from his left eye. After speaking to Max’s doctor,
the incredible Dr.
Polito, Toby decided to take him to the ER at Cottage
Hospital to have it checked out. Toby called me to get Weezy from the other mom’s
in the playgroup and then I went to the ER to see them. When I got there (> 1 hour
after being seen by the triage nurse), Max was very chipper, laughing and telling
me how he fell off the swing. Toby and I made the decision to *not* have him seen
at the ER, but to take him to the Urgent
Care in Carpinteria. Then Toby had the brilliant idea to call Dr. Polito again and see if she could squeeze Max in to check him out. Max and I waited less than an hour to see her, and she checked him out and pronounced him fit as a fiddle.

Thank you, God. Max didn’t have to be seen at the ER, Toby has helpful playgroup friends and Dr. Polito and the nurse Tracey were very flexible.