OUCH!!

Thursday evening Brenen went out to ride his bike. He was trying to do tricks on his bike. ( He just learned to ride his bike without training wheels a couple weeks ago) He fell off and got a little scrape on the side of his face (The opposite side of this picture) he hit his head really hard on the ground and said that he was feeling dizzy. I put him on the couch and gave him some juice and he was watching cartoons. I came in to check on him and he couldn't remember walking into the house or that he had even fallen off his bike. Wade was almost home, I was planning on taking him into the hospital since he couldn't remember what had happened. Wade came home and Brenen started to remember that he had fallen and he was telling Wade about it. So I didn't take him in. He put his shoes on and said he wanted to go ride his bike again. I didn't want to say no, because I didn't want him to be afraid to ride his bike. Well, I should have said no, because 30min. after he went out THIS happened. He was riding his bike really fast down the street and hit a basket ball that had rolled out into the street, he flew over his handle bars and landed right on his face. I was at the other end of the street with the baby. The kids came running up saying Brenen was bleeding all over his face. I ran down and yeah there was blood, and my poor boy laying in the street crying. I was panicky and the first thing I thought was to pick him up. But I wanted to make sure nothing was broken, after assessing the situation I picked him up and took him home. (Wade started school and was at the college for orientation) I cleaned him up and made him stay awake for a couple hours, even though he was tired and wanted to sleep, I told him he could stay home the next day. He woke up Friday and said he didn't want to go to school because he was afraid his teacher would get mad at him for his face looking the way it did (??????????) I said no she will be sad you got hurt. Then he said okay I want to go to school. I sent a note to the teacher telling her what happend and that if he seems tired or sore to call me and I would come pick him up. He made it the whole day at school. And I think he liked the attention he got. Also he does have helmet but wasn't wearing it. We have since told him if he doesn't wear his helmet we'll take his bike away. I feel like wrapping my kids up in bubble wrap before sending them outside. Maybe I will.