Just over a year ago my then 8mo flung himself back off my knee when I was sat on the sofa, I caught him but the back of his head hit my knee, he cried and to stop him from crying I (stupidly) bounced him up in the air as he loves that and it always cheers him up (which he did).
The bump to the head seemed soooo mild and insignificant I didn’t even think twice and I put him in his bouncer and went upstairs and my boyfriend was watching him. Within a few minutes he shouted me down as he’d been sick, I initially just thought he’d ate too much tea but he was then sick again, he then went quite floppy and lethargic. I still didn’t think of the head bump as it seemed so minor.
We rang 111 and a Dr from our local out of hrs GP spoke to us, by that point I’d remembered the head bump and was convinced it was that, my little boy had gone from fine to vomiting, spaced out, floppy and very tired. The doctor was SO dismissive, he said it was a stomach bug, my little boy hadn’t been round anyone to get a stomach bug and had been literally fine all day I knew it was from the head bump. The doctor said he basically had to say we could come in to see him but it’d be a waste of time, I went and he again just dismissed me and said it was a stomach bug. It wasn’t, after being sick 3 times within a few hours my little boy just sort of came back to his normal self and was fine by the time we saw the doctor.
This sounds incredibly daft but I worry so much that I didn’t get the correct treatment for him, I was a new mum and that was the first time I’d ever really spoken to a doctor about him, he pushed all my motherly instincts aside and made me feel like I was wasting everyone’s time when it’s clear now my little boy did have concussion and I should’ve been sent to a&e for a scan. Now for the real daft part, if anything serious did happen to him would it have come to light by now within the 13 months that have passed? I feel awful everyday that I let the dr push me over / I didn’t go to a&e.
He’s met all his milestones and has been fine ever since but I genuinely think I have a bit of a very mild but very real case of ptsd about those few hours as they were the scariest of my life and I will never forget that awful doctor.