We are so thankful for God's protection over Tanner.
On Wednesday, Tanner fell down an entire flight of unfinished stairs to the basement.
15 stairs.
Wood.
At the bottom of those stairs is a slab of concrete.
I still don't have it in me to recount all the details.
I am just now able to talk about it without bursting into tears.
Michael had just stopped by the house (extremely rare during the day) which turned out to be such a blessing. He was a rock. He kept calm while I was a TOTAL basket case.
After Tanner fell, he immediately started crying at the bottom of the stairs (a very good sign).
My dad was literally down the street at a drive-thru when he received my panic call to come stay with Hunter. We were able to leave almost immediately for the ER. He was there within minutes.
Tanner was already showing bruising and had 3 lines in different places on his head from where he hit the stairs.
When we arrived, the staff was sweet and encouraging. The kept us calm and assured us.
The doctor wanted to do a CT scan of his head to make sure that there was nothing going on that we couldn't see.
There were lots of blessings that day but one was that Tanner fell asleep in my arms and I was able to lay him down for the scan without him waking up. If he had been awake, they would have had to strap him down and sedate him. He slept through the scan without a peep.
We waited anxiously for the results while MANY of you prayed.
They came back clear.
It was nothing short of a miracle. Truly.
He has a small concussion and we needed to monitor him over the next 48 hours (which is just about up).
Sweet Tanner has been his normal happy self - full of smiles.
He is crawling fine, eating fine, sleeping fine.
God sent an angel to hold him as he fell down those stairs...I'm just sure of it.
I cannot look at the stairs without wanting to throw up.
We can hardly think about what could have happened and how the outcome could have been so different.
It is simply amazing that no harm was done.
Simply. Amazing.
So, we count our blessings...we thank God for his protection...we thank you for your prayers...and we thank God (again) for answering those prayers.
7 comments:
oh my goodness Laura - I teared up reading this, I can't imagine how scared you guys were! Praise the Lord for His protection!
Amen! I've thought about him a lot the past couple day and am so thankful for God's incredible protection!
so sorry you had to go through that. so thankful your sweet boy is fine.
and yes, i teared up too.
Oh my goodness! That must have been unbelievably scary!
Thank you, Jesus, for protecting Tanner!
I am so glad he is doing great! My niece had a fall recently that scared us all! I understand that worry! I'm so glad everything is ok, and you a re doing better. I'm sure that must have been super hard for you. hugs!
OMG Laura! I can't imagine how scary that must have been!! So, so glad to hear he's doing well
I'm glad the weather will be ok for Matt to still come see you! I wish I could come too. I already asked about coming in the luggage. I don't think we have a suitcase big enough! Have a fun time! I can't wait to see you cabinets! And I'm SO glad Tanner is doing fine. How scary! Love you all!
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