see this cool bracelet? i got it when i went to the radiology department at children's west last week - to get my head x-rayed. it confirmed that i fractured my skull. no kidding. doesn't that sound drastic?!? to be more specific, it is a "linear fracture" that will basically heal itself and is pretty much the best way to break your head.... because despite the utter panic i felt about my mom FREAKING out after i fell backwards off of my stokke chair (i was being a bit of a monkey, reaching far for something on the table & when i came back to sit down, my feet had happened upon the seat and my butt happened upon the back of the chair and in a split second i went down, backwards.) and despite my head hurting - i really have been totally fine and normal since it happened. no signs of anything really wrong except for my bruise - which will again, heal itself.
this marks the third major blow to the head i have experienced in my short little life. (one: trip down the stairs at Ma-Tu's house before i was a year old. two: face plant on an outdoor patio that chipped my two front teeth while on vacation in Finland last summer. and now three: squashed melon in the dining room while being a monkey.) i'm taking it as a sign that i'm a little "head-heavy" -- or perhaps that i'm a "tough-guy" -- either way, i'm pretty glad that i'm as (lucky and) resilient as people often say that kids are. (and you can be certain my mother is glad, too - although she hates when i make light of the situation - because it was perhaps her most terrifying moment of parenthood to date.)
