One Heck of a First Day

Summer vacation is here! 

And Teddy had one doozy of a first day. 

The poor kid started his summer vacation with allergy testing. I anticipated this would be horrible, tears, physically restraining him and more medical trauma. So I recruited a friend to help me because Dave couldn't get out of work. It went so much better than anticipated with no tears, minimal restraints and only 3 positive allergies. (That probably contributes to why there was only minimal restraints to keep him from scratching.) We have a game plan to better treat his allergies and a follow up appointment to continue testing to rule out one of his two remaining antibiotic allergies listed in his medical chart. That will be nice to open the door to more antibiotics to treat all the crud he catches.

Then in the afternoon, he wanted to help me unload cinder blocks and didn't realize how heavy they were. His block he insisted on grabbing fell straight down his shin, scraping and bruising it. Still no tears because he's a tough cookie, but ouch!

The finale to the day was after a great bike ride with myTEAM Triumph. Teddy has now mastered the skill of unbuckling from the race chairs (great, but oh no!) and took off running. He fell off the sidewalk and face planted onto the curb. That resulted in a couple more scrapes, a bruised and cut lip and the real kicker ... 2 front teeth chipped significantly. Guess what, though? Still no tears from Teddy although you could tell he definitely felt the pain. AJ, on the other hand, felt responsible because he was trying to catch Teddy, and he cried for almost 2 hours. He has such a big heart.

His new nickname is Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon.

So, needless to say, on Teddy's second day of summer vacation, he went to the dentist. That was uneventful because they need to wait until the swelling is down before they try to seal/cap them. I don't anticipate that appointment will be so uneventful (or even successful), but I guess we'll find out in July!

Now, if the rest of summer break could be fun and we don't actually break anything else, that would be great!