So last night we had a visit by our local EMT's. Here's what happened all within a minute. After dinner, Pete and I were lounging on the couch and the boys were rough housing. All of a sudden Clifford throws Kristjan down and you hear his head hit the floor HARD! Clifford gets sent to his room and Kristjan gets up off the floor crying to come to me for a hug. He takes two steps, then we see Kristjan's eye's roll in the back of his head, he stumbles and falls over!! I don't know how he managed it, but he came centimeters from hitting his head again on our glass dining table! In an instant I'm yelling for Pete (he's sitting right next to me) and Pete jumps up and grabs Kristjan from under the table, all the while slapping Kristjan in the face and yelling at him to wake up. (Kristjan was out for only a few seconds). While this is going on, I'm on the phone with 911 to have an ambulance come. Luckily, they're just up the road a bit from us. While we wait for the ambulance to come, Kristjan is awake and a little wobbly. Pete questioned him on his name, age, what just happened (his response "brother hit my head on the floor and you slapped me"). The EMT's showed up. The two guys were really nice and helped out a lot. They stayed about 15 minutes to check Kristjan out and to monitor him. They told us what to look for as far as any more serious signs, but since he seemed to be acting fine, a trip to the hospital was not needed (after getting used to the EMT's, Kristjan was back up trying to rough house with his brother again!). We kept Kristjan up for about 3 hours after the incident so we could monitor him. He was fine, but Pete and I were still worried even at bedtime. But Kristjan is back to his old self today. We're so grateful this didn't have a worse outcome!
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