Accident and emergency

General 

Elliott was really good and brave today. Unfortunately he had an accident falling off the play equipment in Jubilee Park (near The London Eye) about half an hour after we'd met up with Chas, Billy and Sid Loft and he bumped his head as part of the fall. He was quite upset afterwards but after comforting seemed to calm down. However he was quite quiet and when we went for lunch at Giraffe he said he felt tired and sick and wasn't interested in eating. So he lay across me for a while and had a rest before suddenly waking up and being sick. At that point we went to St Thomas's hospital accident and emergency to get him checked out. He was quite subdued during the short walk there, but said he felt better. However while we were being processed he was sick again. By the time we saw the Doctor he had perked up a bit but they kept us there for another 30 minutes to make sure he wasn't sick again in the 4 hour period after his fall - which would have led to a scan. During the half an hour he had some more water, kept it down and really perked up as they were showing Toy Story in the waiting room. So they let us go with some advice about what to look out for over the next 24 hours to be safe (more being sick, being hard to wake, throwing a fit).

Activities

In the morning we got the train to London to meet Billy, Sid and Chas Loft for the day. We had a really good start to the visit until the fall in the playground.   

After we got the bus from the hospital to the Waterloo he seemed much more like himself and was asking for sweets, etc. On the train ride home he asked lots of questions about how trains worked and even preformed some magic (that involved me looking away for large periods of time while toy cars magically disappeared). When we got home he had some rolls for tea and seemed really hungry. He said his head still hurt a bit so he had calpol before bed, but he seemed back to his normal self and was playing with his toys and watching how to play Lego Batman on the iPad. I checked on him regularly after he fell asleep and everything was fine and normal.

To see photos of today visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/elliottsweekends/.