{"id":103,"date":"2014-06-18T06:46:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T10:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=103"},"modified":"2014-06-18T07:04:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T11:04:08","slug":"monday-night-with-the-1-year-old-in-the-emergency-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2014\/06\/18\/monday-night-with-the-1-year-old-in-the-emergency-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night with the 1-year-old in the Emergency Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"picChildrens140616_0706w\"<\/a>Let me begin by saying everything is okay. Totally okay. But he was rivering drool down his windbreaker when I drove up to pick them up at the park a bit after 6. And K said he\u2019d vomited a little and spit up a bit of blood before I arrived.<\/p>\n

They\u2019d been playing on Half Moon Beach and he seemed to have swallowed something, who knows what. He\u2019s one of those 1-and-a-half-year-olds who likes to put everything in his mouth\u2014toy cars, dirt, bottle caps, rubber gravel from the playground. Could he have swallowed a piece of glass?<\/p>\n

\"picChildrens140616_0762w\"<\/a>Our local neighborhood pediatrician is open late, so we drove directly there. The doctor said he seemed to be breathing fine, but he should have an X-ray and so on. Did we want an ambulance to take him to the hospital?<\/p>\n

I dropped them off at the Children\u2019s Hospital Emergency Room a little after 8 and parked our blue car. While we waited for the doctors to see him, I took older brother J to get some food\u2014I\u2019d not eaten dinner\u2014and look around. We found George Rhoads\u2019s ball machine kinetic sculpture at the end of the under-construction lobby and watched the balls clatter around for a while as I sat on the floor and ate a healthy salad. Somebody I happen know who works there came out of a staff door and we said hellos.<\/p>\n

Then J and I headed back to the ER. They\u2019d called in some ear-nose-throat specialist and he was standing in the frosted-door cubicle room with a long pair of tweezers and talking strategies for keeping the baby still. So K held him in her lap and I held his head as he cried and cried and the doctor stuck these 12-foot-long tweezers down his throat. And came up with a single, green blade of grass.<\/p>\n

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Let me begin by saying everything is okay. Totally okay. But he was rivering drool down his windbreaker when I drove up to pick them up at the park a bit after 6. And K said he\u2019d vomited a little and spit up a bit of blood before I arrived. They\u2019d been playing on Half […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}